Minnesota Election Trends Project

May 14, 1923

Referendum No. 3

Proposal to reconfigure the City Council: cut the City into 6 wards, each ward electing 2 Aldermen and 3 elected at-large (15 aldermen total). Three-fifths majority needed for passage (not voting was counted as a No vote).

Ward	For	Against
1	389	3145
2	2922	2839
3	2145	6621
4	4479	3186
5	3607	3370
6	250	1543
7	2593	5393
8	11,567	3892
9	1251	5317
10	1438	5779
11	945	3229
12	1961	6845
13	10,568	3921
Total	44,115	55,080

Referendum failed.

Wards 3 & 10

"Shall the Minneapolis Park Board purchase the McNair Farm, two-thirds of the cost to be paid by the Third and Tenth Wards?"

The McNair Farm extended along Xerxes Avenue, through two and a half quarter sections, from 16th Avenue to Lowry. The Ewald brothers, who had operated their dairy farm there for years, moved off the McNair property in 1923.

Ward	For	Against
3	1540	6069
10	866	5055
Total	2406	11,124