2005 Minneapolis municipal election

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City Council results by ward

The 2005Minneapolis municipalelections in theU.S. state ofMinnesota held a scheduledprimary election on 13 September and ageneral election on 8 November. Voters in the city elected:

• 1mayor
• 13city council members, elected byward
• 6Minneapolis Public Library trustees
• 2 members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, and
• 3 at-large and 6 elected by district members of thePark and Recreation Board.

• IncumbentR.T. Rybak andHennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, bothDFLers, advanced to the general election on November 8 for the mayoral post. Both candidates had sought endorsement at the DFL City Convention, but neither was able to reach the 60% required.^[1] In the Primary election, Rybak was the overall winner with 44.49% of the vote, while McLaughlin received 35.33%.

• The DFL-endorsed candidates won in all races except Ward 2 (Green PartyCam Gordon won by 141 votes over DFLerCara Letofsky). In wards where there was no DFL endorsement (8 & 10), the seat was won by the candidate who came closest to getting the DFL endorsement.

• In other offices, the DFL-endorsed candidates won in all races except 1 Park Board seat (IncumbentAnnie Young had no DFL-endorsed opponent) and 1 Library Board seat (IncumbentAnita Duckor (independent) beatGary Thaden (DFL). (Thaden was later appointed by the Minneapolis City Council).

City Council MemberDean Zimmermann was accused by theFederal Bureau of Investigation of accepting bribes, seeMinneapolis City Council. In December 2006, he was convicted and sentenced to prison. He was held in a Federal Prison in Colorado, but was released in summer 2008 to a halfway house in Minneapolis.

• 2009 Minneapolis municipal elections

• Minneapolis Elections Office
• Minneapolis candidate links and discussion from E-Democracy.Org
• Minneapolis Observer - Community newspaper covering the elections

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