Overview
The Cary Town Council has seven members, all of whom are elected to four-year terms. Voters throughout Town choose the mayor and two at-large representatives. Each of the other four council members is a district representative and is chosen only by voters within the district. District representatives must live in the districts they represent.
The Town Council amended boundaries of all four districts (A, B, C and D) in May 2001 to balance population totals as state and federal law require after each nationwide census.
Town Council candidates do not run as members of political parties, so there are no primaries. The 2007 election will be Cary's first under the Instant Runoff method, which will make the need for a separate runoff election unnecessary. Voters will mark their first, second, and third preferences on one ballot in October. When the leading candidate in a race fails to win a majority of first preference votes, the two candidates with the most first choice votes enter an instant runoff.