History of charter change

2009 Charter amendment passed. YES 17,083 - 52.455 NO 15,486 47.55%
Charter Change requires 51% positive vote. 32,569 votes cast 16,611 needed.
Charter Change passed by 472 votes.

 

November 2009, Unfair Campaign Practice charges brought against the ?Saint Paul
Better Ballot Campaign? for making knowingly and deliberate false claims of
endorsement of the Minnesota DFL and the League of Women Voters as well as use of
the names of national ?gures including President Obama in over 40,000 pieces of
campaign literature.

Order of the administrative lawjudges is that the violations ?were multiple and
deliberate" and that they ?created an unfair ?but the impact on the
election cannot be quantified on this recor

They ?ned the campaign the maximum allowed $5,000.00.

 

Since then we have had three elections under ranked choice voting.

In 2011, the ?rst instant runoff occurred in Ward 2. The incumbent won when the third
place ?nisher passed the second place ?nisher after the votes of the fourth and ?fth
place ?nisher were dropped.

In 2013, we had a record low voter turnout in the Mayor?s race and elected our first City
Council Member with less than 50% of the people voting that day. Dai Thao was
elected with 39.7% of the vote. Of the 2444 people who did not cast votes for the top
two vote getters and were available for redistribution only 1178, 48.2% transferred to
the ?nal two candidates and 51.8% were ?inactive? or in other words 1266 voters 25.5%
of those voting in Ward 1 that day ended up not voting in the ?nal vote count.

In 2015, we elected or second City Council member without a majority of those voting.
Rebecca Noecker was elected with 48.4% of the vote. Of the 1209 votes that did not
vote for one of the two top vote getters, 627 votes 52% of those available transferred to
other candidates and 582 votes 48% of those available did not transfer, this time leaving
10% of the people who voted that day not participating in the ?nal vote count.

Ward 2 Reallocation Summary Statement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 14, 2011
Election Night Hand Count 1 Reallocatio" Round:
Candidate Totals- First Totals-First
Choice Choice Subtotal Subtotal
Dave Thune 2079 2078 75 2153 717 2870 52 - ?1 
.Iim lvey 1435 1435 86 1521 -1,521 0 
Bill Hosko 1378 1378 189 1567 497 2064 '3 .c 5'
Schanno 343 344 -344 0 0
Sharon Anderson 118 120 -120 0 0
Write-in 8 8 -8 0
Suspended Ballots 0 65 -65 0 
Total Votes Cast 5361 5363 0 5241 0 4934 9c
Inactive 0 0 187 187 307 494
Total Ballots 5361 5428 5423 5423
Election Night Hand Count
Target Calculations
(Fatal 151: choice votes cast/2H1Key: Active
Inactive
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City of Saint Paul Ward 2 Turn Out
2007 2011

What follows is a break down by precinct of the turn out In Ward 2 in the last two city council elections.
The 2007 general election was where Thune and Hosko faced off and the 2011 IRV race where lvey,
Schanno, and Anderson joined Thune and HoSko on the ballot. What is interesting to note is where turn
out is significantly up, and the characteristics of those precincts and where turn out is down.

The 2011 IRV election had a significantly (more than 10%) higher turn out in precincts 2-11 (Lowertown),
24 (Summit Hill); 2-6 and 2-7 (Brewery/Irvine Park/Riverfront); and 2-13 West Side Bluff.

The 2011 IRV election had a signi?cantly lower turn out in precincts 2-15 - District Del Sol, 2-16 -
Riverview School, and 2-14 - Humboldt.

The most common characteristic of the precincts with the decrease in turn out is that they have the
highest minority percentage of population in Ward 2. In fact, precinct 2-15 is the only precinct that is
over 50% minority members in Ward 2. 2-15 is 70% of color and 2-16 47% and 2-14 is 34.9%.

Of course, the data can?t show who actually voted on election day or if it was that reduced the
turnout in some precincts and increased it in others. It is just interesting to note that it is a consistent

pattern in city after city.

Voter turn out break down Ward 2 2007 2011 of minority member 2010 census)

2007 2011 Min 
2-1 25.6% 27.4% +7 10.1
2-2 28.0% 29.7% +6 7.6
2-3 30.0% 27.4% -9.5 18.4
2-4 19.6% 21.8% +11 9.4
2-5 30.0% 29.4% -2 19.4
2-6 24.5% 27.4% +12 20.3
2-7 20.2% 23.4% +15.8 29
2-8 17.2% 16.9% -2 32.1
2-9 18.9% 20.2% +7 34.1
2-11 20.7% 24.8% +19.8 18.9
2-12 26.2% 25.7% -2 19.3
2-13 25.2% 27.7% +10 27.4
2-14 20.5% 18.5% -11 34.9
2-15 11.0% 8.9% -23.5 70.5

2-16 16.3% 13.9% ~17.2 46.8



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2-13
2-9
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2-5
2-8
2-12
2-3
2-14
2-16
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2007

20.7%
20.2%
24.5%
19.6%
25.2%
18.9%
25.6%
28.0%
30.0%
17.2%
26.2%
30.0%
20.5%
16.3%
11.0%

2011

24.8%
23.4%
27.4%
21.8%
27.7%
20.2%
27.4%
29.7%
29.4%
16.9%
25.7%
27.4%
18.5%
13.9%
8.9%



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Ward 1 Reallocation Summary Statement
November 11, 2013

. 111111111 "Candldate Ni ?ka'?'I-Cholce . . Choice; 
First Choice .Tean?i?; 'Teemz"*. TOTALS

Dai Than 1346 679 668 1347 ca"
Noel Nix 1165 535 632 1167 7?7 'an '1 0/7;

John Howard 727 467 261 728 
Debbie Man 681 445 237 682 0
Kazoua -Thao 396 231 165 396 . 0
Mark Voerdi 266 117 148 265 0
Paul 178 82 96 178 0
WritE-Total Votes Cast 4765 4770 4479 4129 3592 WJW
Su ended Ballots 193 23 35 58

Inactive 67 63 130 145 479 350 329 437 1,266 $155570
Total Ballots 4959 4953 4953 4953 4953

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Reallocation
Reallocation Round
ElectiOn Hand Count Hand Count Hand-Coll? 1
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. Candidate Night Totals- Totals-First . I irst . . . .
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First Choice - 768.511- Team2~ TOTALS . Subtotal
Rebecca Noecker- 2390 1262 1129 2391 391 2732 48.4 ?e
Darren Tobolt 2207 919 1289 2208 235 . 24.44 411,8;
Bill Hosko 840 483 357 840 -840 0
Pat Fearing 110 45 65 110 ~110 0
Sharon Anderson 93 59 35 94 ~94 0
Michael Johnson 75 39 37 76 -76 0
Write-Suspended Ballots n/a 34 36 70 -70 0
Total Votes Cast 5734 2849 2923 5738 5226
Inactive 582 ID 
Total Ballots 5734 2849 2923 5738 5226
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