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An Analysis of Cincinnati's Proportional Representation Elections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Robert P. Goldman
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Notes on Municipal Affairs
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American Political Science Review , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , August 1930 , pp. 699 - 710
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1930

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1 He became mayor on January 1, 1926, under the new form of government dealt with in this article.

2 The “quota” for election is the first whole number above one-tenth of the entire number of valid ballots cast.

3 This appearance may be discounted, however, because many persons voted for the Democrats endorsed by the Charter Committee who would not have voted for a Democrat on a party ticket.

4 For instance, the outstanding independent of the Charter group, though during his first term subjected to repeated and virulent attacks by some newspapers and influential citizens, increased his first-choice vote from 20,543 in 1925 to 24,121 in 1927, the largest vote received by any candidate in any of the last three elections.

5 One was the so-called unaffiliated independent elected in 1927, but who after election went over to the Republican group.

6 The Republican and Democratic emblems on the old partisan ballots in Cincinnati were the eagle and the rooster.

7 The Republican candidates declared that they favored the manager plan of government and the retention of the existing city manager.

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