2023 Election Results
The results of the municipal general election held Nov. 7, 2023, are detailed below.
Results for the 2023 ISD 283 school board race are available on the Secretary of State's website. The school board races were not counted using the ranked-choice method. The top four candidates with the most votes in this race were elected.
Mayor and council member results
For races using the ranked-choice voting method, vote counts for first, second and third choices were available on election night (Nov. 7), but actual results were not tabulated until the following day. The city clerk’s office began tabulation on Nov. 8 and announced results below.
Note: The contests for the offices of at large council member A, at large council member B and mayor only required a single round of counting.
On Monday, Nov. 13, the city council adopted Resolution no. 23-143 canvassing the results of the 2023 municipal election and declaring winners for the offices of mayor and at large council member.
Learn more about ranked-choice voting.
Round 1
Ranked-choice races
In the first round of counting a ranked-choice race, we total the first-choice votes and check whether any option received more votes than the threshold. The threshold for declaring a winner is 50% of total votes cast plus one.
Mayor
| Candidate |
Number of votes |
Percent of votes |
| Nadia Mohamed |
4,595 |
58.4% |
| Dale A. Anderson |
3,239 |
41.2% |
| Undeclared write-in (UWI) |
27 |
0.3% |
| Overvote |
0 |
0.0% |
| Undervote |
4 |
0.1% |
| Total votes continuing |
7,865 |
|
| Total votes cast for this office |
7,865 |
|
| Totally blank |
67 |
|
| Partially defective |
1 |
|
| Exhausted ballots |
0 |
|
| Total ballots cast |
7,933 |
|
Threshold = 3,933
Nadia Mohamed received the most votes (4,595), which was more than the threshold (3,933). Nadia Mohamed was declared the winner in a single round of counting.
*Threshold = [(Total votes cast)/(Seats to be elected + 1)] + 1
The total votes cast for this office does not include totally blank or partially defective ballots as defined by City Code Sec. 10-4.
Council member at large A
| Candidate |
Number of votes |
Percent of votes |
| Yolanda Farris |
6,150 |
96.6% |
| Undeclared write-in (UWI) |
200 |
3.1% |
| Overvote |
0 |
0.0% |
| Undervote |
19 |
0.3% |
| Total votes continuing |
6,369 |
|
| Total votes cast for this office |
6,369 |
|
| Totally blank |
1,564 |
|
| Partially defective |
0 |
|
| Exhausted ballots |
0 |
|
| Total ballots cast |
7,933 |
|
Threshold = 3,185
Yolanda Farris received the most votes (6,150), which was more than the threshold (3,185). Yolanda Farris was declared the winner in a single round of counting.
*Threshold = [(Total votes cast)/(Seats to be elected + 1)] + 1
The total votes cast for this office does not include totally blank or partially defective ballots as defined by City Code Sec. 10-4.
Council member at large B
| Candidate |
Number of votes |
Percent of votes |
| Paul Baudhuin |
3,959 |
55.5% |
J.W. Starrett
|
1,633 |
22.8% |
Moshe Goldberger
|
1,501 |
21.0% |
| Undeclared write-in (UWI) |
29 |
0.4% |
| Overvote |
6 |
0.1% |
| Undervote |
11 |
0.2% |
| Total votes continuing |
7,139 |
|
| Total votes cast for this office |
7,139 |
|
| Totally blank |
791 |
|
| Partially defective |
3 |
|
| Exhausted ballots |
0 |
|
| Total ballots cast |
7,933 |
|
Threshold = 3,570
Paul Baudhuin received the most votes (3,959), which was more than the threshold (3,570). Paul Baudhuin was declared the winner in a single round of counting.
*Threshold = [(Total votes cast)/(Seats to be elected + 1)] + 1
The total votes cast for this office does not include totally blank or partially defective ballots as defined by City Code Sec. 10-4.