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Incumbent councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney retained eighth place after the redistribution; Mahoney now has a total of 1415 votes...
Under the system, each candidate must have a certain quota of votes in order to be elected. The quota is set by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of seats to be filled plus one. Then, add one vote to the quotient and there's the quota. The idea behind sitting the quota at this level is to make it low enough for candidates supported by a minority group to get elected, and high enough to make the elections more than a matter of chance...
This year, about 25,000 voted in the City Council election, making the quota approximately 2500. As he almost always does, Walter J. Sullivan ran highest; he was the only candidate to make the quota from his "number ones." As an example, say Sullivan got a hypothetical total of 3750 "number ones" (slightly higher than his actual count). Thus, he is 1250 over the quota...
MacBean is presently leading the Ivy League in total offense with 781 yards, 165 yards ahead of Cornell's sophomore sensation Ed Marinaro. He is the only Ivy League passer that has not thrown an interception, and his 615 passing percentage ranks second in the league...
Last week, MacBean connected on 8 of 12 passes in Princeton's 33-6 romp over Brown. Against Dartmouth earlier in the year, he had 22 completions, two shy of the all-time Princeton record, and his 312 yards total offense approached the game record of 351 yards...