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The 2005 Boston mayoral election occurred on Tuesday, November 8, 2005, between incumbent mayor Thomas Menino and City Councilor Maura Hennigan. Menino was re-elected to a fourth term.
As Menino and Hennigan were the only two candidates, no preliminary election was held. 36% of registered voters turned out to vote in the election. [1]
| Candidates | General Election [1] | |
|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | |
| Thomas Menino (incumbent) | 64,001 | 67.52 |
| Maura Hennigan | 30,468 | 32.14 |
The mayor of Boston is the head of the municipal government in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Boston has a mayor–council government. Boston's mayoral elections are nonpartisan, and elect a mayor to a four-year term; there are no term limits. The mayor's office is in Boston City Hall, in Government Center.
Thomas Michael Menino was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston, from 1993 to 2014. He was the city's longest-serving mayor. He was elected mayor in 1993 after first serving three months in the position of "acting mayor" following the resignation of his predecessor Raymond Flynn. Before serving as mayor, Menino was a member of the Boston City Council and had been elected president of the City Council in 1993.
Maura A. Hennigan is an American politician who currently serves as the Clerk Magistrate of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Superior Court Criminal/Business Division. She is a former member of the Boston City Council and was a mayoral candidate in 2005. From 1987 to 1993, she was known as Maura Hennigan Casey.
Michael F. Flaherty is a politician who served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council for a cumulative ten terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the council in 1999, serving an initial five terms between 2000 until 2010. During this initial tenure, he served as vice president of the council in 2001 and as council president from 2002 to 2006. In 2009 he forwent reelection to a further term in order to run for mayor of Boston in that year's election, which he lost to incumbent mayor Thomas Menino. He ran unsuccessfully in 2011 to return to the council as an at-large member. In 2013, Flaherty again ran in the at-large city council race, and was returned to the council. He served five terms between 2014 and 2024. In 2023, he declined to seek reelection to an additional term.
Sam Sang Yoon is a former at-large member of the Boston City Council. He later served as the executive director for the Council of Korean Americans in Washington, DC. He was the first Asian American to hold elected office in Boston. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party.
The Boston City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is made up of 13 members: 9 district representatives and 4 at-large members. Councillors are elected to two-year terms and there is no limit on the number of terms an individual can serve. Boston uses a strong-mayor form of government in which the city council acts as a check against the power of the executive branch, the mayor. The council is responsible for approving the city budget; monitoring, creating, and abolishing city agencies; making land use decisions; and approving, amending, or rejecting other legislative proposals.
The 2009 Boston mayoral election occurred on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, between incumbent Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino, and Michael F. Flaherty, member of the Boston City Council and former Council president. Menino was re-elected to a fifth term, the first mayor to do so in Boston history. A nonpartisan municipal preliminary election was held on September 22, 2009, where Flaherty and Menino advanced to the general election.
The Boston mayoral election of 1993 occurred on Tuesday, November 2, 1993, between Acting Mayor Thomas Menino and State Representative James T. Brett. Menino was elected to his first term.
The 2013 Boston mayoral election occurred on Tuesday, November 5, 2013. Incumbent mayor Thomas Menino had declined to run for re-election to a sixth term. A non-partisan preliminary election was held on Tuesday, September 24, 2013. 12 candidates made the ballot to replace Menino, with state representative Marty Walsh and at-large city councilor John R. Connolly advancing to the general election. Walsh was elected to his first term, defeating Connolly by 3% of the vote, and was inaugurated on Monday, January 6, 2014.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 3, 2009. Eight seats were contested in the general election, as the incumbents in districts 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 were unopposed. Seven seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 22, 2009.
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Boston City Council elections were held on November 8, 2005. Ten seats were contested in the general election, as the incumbents in districts 5, 7, and 8 were unopposed. Five seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 27, 2005.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 15, 1983, with preliminary elections on October 11, 1983. This election transitioned the Council from having 9 members to having 13 members. All 13 seats were contested in both the preliminary and general election.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 5, 1985. Eleven seats were contested in the general election, as the incumbents in districts 4 and 5 were unopposed. Nine seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 10, 1985.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 3, 1987. Eleven seats were contested in the general election, as the incumbents in districts 3 and 6 were unopposed. Seven seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 22, 1987.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 7, 1989. Eleven seats were contested in the general election, as the incumbents in districts 3 and 5 were unopposed. Nine seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 26, 1989.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 5, 1991. All thirteen seats were contested in the general election, and had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 24, 1991.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 2, 1993. All thirteen seats were contested in the general election, while ten seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 21, 1993.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 6, 2001. Nine seats were contested in the general election, as the incumbents for districts 1, 5, 8, and 9 ran unopposed. Two seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 25, 2001.
Thomas Menino served as mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1993 through 2014. He is the longest serving mayor in the city's history. Menino first became acting mayor in July 1993, after Raymond Flynn resigned as mayor to assume the post of United States ambassador to the Holy See. Menino was elected mayor in the subsequent 1993 Boston mayoral election, and was reelected to additional terms in the four subsequent elections, making for an unprecedented and unsurpassed twenty year tenure. On March 28, 2013, Menino announced that he would not seek a sixth term.
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