Minneapolis municipal elections, 2005
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The 2005 Minneapolis
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 municipal election
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s in the U.S. state
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 of Minnesota
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 held a scheduled primary election
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 on 13 September and a general election
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 on 8 November. Voters in the city elected:
  • 1 mayor
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  • 13 city council
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     members, elected by ward
  • 6 Minneapolis Public Library
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     trustees
  • 2 members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, and
  • 3 at-large and 6 elected by district members of the Park and Recreation Board

Later developments

City Council Member Dean Zimmermann
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Gary Dean Zimmermann is an American politician and member of the Green Party of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was an elected member of the Minneapolis City Council from 2001 to 2005...

 was accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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 of accepting bribes, see Minneapolis 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.

Primary Results, Mayor

  • Incumbent R.T. Rybak and Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, both DFLers
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    , 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% requiredhttp://www.scc.net/~t-bonham/MPLS2005CV.HTM. In the Primary election, Rybak was the overall winner with 44.49% of the vote, while McLaughlin received 35.33%. Full election results are available on the City's website http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/elections/2005primary-results.asp.

Other Offices

  • In other offices, the DFL-endorsed candidates won in all races except Ward 2 (Green Party Cam Gordon
    Cam Gordon
    Cam Gordon is an American politician and member of the Green Party of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is an elected member of the Minneapolis City Council....

     won by 141 votes over DFLer Cara Letofski), 1 Park Board seat (Incumbent Annie Young
    Annie Young
    Annie Young is an American politician and member of the Green Party of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an elected at-large member of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board...

     had no DFL-endorsed opponent) and 1 Library Board seat (Incumbent Anita Duckor (independent) beat Gary Thaden (DFL). (Thaden was later appointed by the Minneapolis City Council). 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.

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