Felix D. Arroyo is an American retired politician. He held roles in the cabinet of the Mayor of Boston under Raymond Flynn;served on the Boston School Committee;was an at-large member of the Boston City Council;and was the Register of Probate for Suffolk County,Massachusetts,at the time of his retirement in 2023.
Robert Edward Travaglini is an American politician and lobbyist. From 2003 to 2007,Travaglini served as President of the Massachusetts Senate. He represented the first Middlesex and Suffolk senate district,encompassing portions of Boston,Cambridge,Revere,and Winthrop.
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.
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.
Albert Leo "Dapper" O'Neil was an American politician who served as a socially conservative member of the Boston City Council for twenty-eight years. Prior to joining the council,he served on the Boston Licensing Board and was an operative for the Mayor of Boston James Michael Curley.
Christopher A. Iannella was a member of the Boston City Council in Boston,Massachusetts,for 33 years,spanning the late 1950s until his death. He also served eight one-year terms as City Council president.
Althea Garrison is an American politician from Boston,Massachusetts who previously served a single term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1993–1995) and a partial term as an at-large councilor on the Boston City Council (2019–2020). She is considered the earliest transgender person known to have been elected to a state legislature in the United States. She was outed against her will by the Boston Herald after her 1992 election. She is a perennial candidate,having been an unsuccessful candidate for political office more than forty times.
Francis Michael Roache was an American law enforcement officer and politician who served as the Boston Police Commissioner from 1985 to 1993. He was also a member of the Boston City Council from 1996 to 2002 and was Suffolk County Register of Deeds from 2002 to 2015.
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 7,1995. Ten seats were contested in the general election,as the incumbents for districts 2,5,and 8 ran unopposed. Nine seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 19,1995.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 4,1997. All 13 seats were contested in the general election. Eight seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 23,1997.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 2,1999. Eleven seats were contested in the general election,as the incumbents for districts 1 and 2 ran unopposed. Ten seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 21,1999.
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.
The 2021 Boston City Council election was held on November 2,2021. All thirteen councillors from the nine districts and four councillors at-large were up for election. Elections in Boston are officially nonpartisan.
Boston City Council election was held on November 3,1981,with preliminary elections on September 21,1981. This election was the final one before the Council transitioned from having 9 members to having 13 members.
The Boston City Council election was held on November 6,1979,with preliminary elections on September 25,1979.
William J. Foley Jr. was an American politician who served on the Boston City Council from 1952 to 1970.
Erin J. Murphy is an American politician and educator who has served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council since December 2021. Murphy is a Democrat,and is considered one of the more politically moderate members of the council. She is running in the 2024 election for the clerkship of the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County.
On November 5,2024,an election will be held to elect all 8 members to the Massachusetts Governor's Council. The election will coincide with elections for other offices,including Electors of President and Vice President,U.S. Senator,U.S. House of Representatives,State Senators,State Representatives,Register of Deeds,Clerk of Courts,and County Commissioners.
