Talk:Council of the District of Columbia

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[edit] Election mechanics

Two of the at-large members must not be of the majority party.

Can someone explain exactly how this works? I'm assuming that DC residents get to cast five votes for at-large reps. How is the party distribution broken down? --Jfruh 22:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

no - 2 are elected every two years and the chair is elected every 4 years. you get two votes. if, for example, two democrats got the most votes, and the republican got the 3rd most votes, then the 1st democrat and the rebuplican would get the seats. --Scarykitty 01:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Each party selects only one at-large candidate during the primary, so there's no possibility of having two Democrats getting the most votes, because there will be only one Democrat on the ballot in the general election. KCinDC (talk) 05:54, 20 December 2007 (UTC)