Minneapolis City Council

This article refers to Minneapolis, Minnesota. There is also a Minneapolis, Kansas.

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The Minneapolis City Council is the governing body of the City of Minneapolis. The City Council is composed of 13 single member districts, called wards. Paul Ostrow (Democratic-Farmer-Labor , Ward 1) is president of the council. The council is dominated by members of the DFL Party with ten members. The Green Party has two members, and there is one independent member. The city has never had more than 13 wards, but at one time there were three representatives from each area, for a total of 39 city council members. The council assumed its current size in the 1950s. Because of a quirk in the election cycle, 2005 marks the first Council races since post-2000-Census redistricting. There are no Republican candidates for either Mayor or any City Council post in the 2005 election, however one Republican is running for the Library Board. Councilmembers from the new districts will take office in January 2006 - past the decade's halfway point.

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City of Minneapolis - Wards - Paul Ostrow - Democratic-Farmer-Labor - Green Party - 1950s - 2005 election - Library Board

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As of 2005, the membership by ward is:

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• Paul Ostrow (DFL)
• Paul Zerby (DFL)
• Don Samuels (DFL)
• Barb Johnson (DFL)
• Natalie Johnson Lee (Green)
• Dean Zimmermann (Green)
• Lisa Goodman (DFL)
• Robert Lilligren (DFL)
• Gary Schiff (DFL)
• Dan Niziolek (DFL)
• Scott Benson (DFL)
• Sandy Colvin Roy (DFL)
• Barret Lane (independent)
 
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