Boston Mayor Michelle Wu cruised to victory in her uncontested bid for a second time period Tuesday evening, as votes in Metropolis Council races have been nonetheless being counted.
Wu declared victory simply previous 9:30 p.m. Tuesday as vote counts have been nonetheless being posted by town’s Election Division. Moreover, Wu mentioned from the stage that at-large Councilor Henry Santana gained his re-election “in a landslide.”
Former Metropolis Councilor Frank Baker, trying to make a comeback in Tuesday’s election, mentioned he had not seen closing outcomes but. After September’s major, Santana was seen as probably the most weak incumbent on the at-large slate.
Wu, a well-liked progressive Democrat, will serve a second, four-year time period as mayor. Hers was the one title on the mayoral poll, a scenario that was created after she defeated her principal challenger, Josh Kraft, by 49 factors within the September preliminary election, main him to drop out of the race simply days later.
Wu’s reelection bid was bolstered by her defiance of the Trump administration, on immigration and different native issues. She was thrust into the nationwide highlight for her protection of town’s sanctuary insurance policies, which offer protections for unlawful immigrants, at a Republican-led Congressional oversight committee final March.
U.S. Rep Ayanna Pressley congratulated Wu on “her decisive reelection” in a press release.
“Mayor Wu is leading our city through consequential times with clear vision and standing firm in defense of our neighbors,” Pressley mentioned. “The mayor ran a grassroots, people-powered campaign and earned strong support in every neighborhood of Boston. Thank you to the organizers, volunteers, and voters who made this historic victory possible.”
With the mayor’s race all however decided since Kraft, the son of the billionaire New England Patriots proprietor, bowed out in September, Wu’s focus has been on the Metropolis Council elections, notably the at-large race, the place she has been working to get Santana, her ally and former worker, reelected for months.
Wu’s election evening social gathering was co-hosted by Santana and Metropolis Council President Ruthzee Louijeune.
Former Mayor Marty Walsh has backed Baker, who ran citywide for the primary time in a comeback bid that got here simply two years after he opted to not search reelection to the Dorchester-centric District 3 seat he held for greater than a decade.
Outcomes have been nonetheless being counted for the Metropolis Council races as of Herald’s first version hit the presses, with all eyes on the at-large race. Santana completed fourth within the September preliminary, and has been considered by political observers because the incumbent most vulnerable to being knocked off the Council.
In accordance with unofficla outcomes posted by town, Santana was sitting in fourth place within the at giant race with about 15% of the vote in comparison with Baker’s 11%.
Baker completed fifth within the major, and was awaiting outcomes together with his supporters at Florian Corridor, the Boston firefighters union headquarters in Dorchester.
In September, Louijeune topped the at-large ticket. Julia Mejia got here in second and Erin Murphy positioned third. Challenger Alexandra Valdez, a Metropolis Corridor worker supported by each Wu and Walsh, positioned sixth, adopted by native businessman Marvin Dee Mathelier and metropolis worker Will Onuoha.
Voters may also decide who fills the Roxbury-centric District 7 seat that’s been vacant since July 4 when disgraced former Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson resigned after pleading responsible to federal corruption fees tied to a Metropolis Corridor kickback scheme. She is serving a one-month jail sentence.
Vying for the seat are Mentioned Coach Ahmed, a BPS educator and founding father of a neighborhood monitor program, and Miniard Culpepper, senior pastor of the Nice Hill Missionary Baptist Church. Ahmed and Culpepper emerged as winners from a crowded September major, with lower than half a share level separating their outcomes.
Of the opposite district races, solely District 3 Councilor John FitzGerald and District 8 Councilor Sharon Durkan are operating opposed. Early outcomes indicated that the remaining incumbents will preserve their seats.
District 1 Councilor Gabriela Coletta Zapata confronted Andretti Mcduffie-Stanziani; District 2 Councilor Ed Flynn confronted Charles Jeffrey Delaney; District 4 Councilor Brian Worrell confronted Helen Cameron; District 5 Councilor Enrique Pepén confronted Winston Pierre; District 6 Councilor Benjamin Weber confronted Steven Ray Berry; and District 9 Councilor Liz Breadon confronted Pilar Ortiz.
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