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These three candidates and Independent Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. (photo not available) are still eligible for the three remaining council seats. Incumbent Thomas W. Danehy has 1617 votes, which will be transferred to the remaining candidates this morning. Candidates who meet the quota--2696 votes--are declared elected. Should no one meet quota after Danehy's votes are transferred, the top three vote-getters will be declared elected. Walsh now has 2290 votes, Toomey 2129, Russell 1938, and LaRosa...
...There is one candidate who is above the quota and that is Alice Wolf, who has 3564 votes and is hereby declared elected," said Scheir...
Shortly before 6 p.m. Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir read out the official count of first-choice votes for the council, and announced that the "quota" needed for election this year...
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, votes in excess of the quota are transferred to lower choices on the ballot. Duehay's election was announced at 10:55 p.m., after election officials began to transfer Wolf's 868 surplus ballots...
This year's election marks the first time since 1961 that Independent Councillor Walter J. Sullivan has not met the quota on the first count. Sullivan, almost always the city's top vote-getter, now leads the race for the third seat with approximately 2565 votes...