Mayor Wu's win streak continues: 3 takeaways from Boston's 2025 election
1. In the competitive at-large race, Wu put her hand on the scale and got two-thirds of her wishlist.
All four at-large city councilors, representing all of Boston, handily won re-election. That included Henry Santana, a Wu ally who was seen as most vulnerable to a challenge by Frank Baker, a former District 3 councilor.
2. Wu keeps a supermajority of allies on the council.
Wu doesn’t have the buzz of a new mayor, but she’ll have a pre-set cabinet and a fresh stamp of approval from voters. In September, she knocked out her only real challenger for mayor, Josh Kraft, in a 49-point romp. And she’ll head back to work with a 13-person council on which only three to four members regularly push back on her.
3. The one new member of the council may be a newly minted Wu ally.
In the open City Council race to represent Roxbury’s District 7, Rev. Miniard Culpepper beat Said Ahmed – a former track athlete and Boston Public Schools employee – by about 600 votes. The seat was formerly held by Tania Fernandes Anderson, who was arrested and pleaded guilty to taking a financial kickback.
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