Boston Preliminary Election

Name: Boston Preliminary Election
Start: 2025-09-09T08:00:00-04:00
Location: Cathedral High School

Schedule

Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Cathedral High School | Boston, MA

The election will whittle down the number of candidates for each post to either two (for most of the elections) or four (for at-large council seats), except in districts 4,6, 8 and 9, which already have final-election candidate numbers.
Mayor:
Michelle Wu
Josh Kraft
Robert Cappucci
Domingos Darosa
Note: Wu will be listed as "present Mayor" while Cappucci will be listed as "Former District School Committee Member" from the time he was elected to the School Committee, back when that was still a thing one could do before 1991. He will also have his status as a veteran noted.
At-large city council (four to be elected; preliminary will reduce the field to eight for the November final):
Frank K Baker, Dorchester, former district city councilor
Rachel Nicole Miselman, East Boston
Alexandra E Valdez, Hyde Park
Will Onuoha, Dorchester
Erin J Murphy, Dorchester, incumbent
Henry A Santana, Roxbury, incumbent
Yves Mary Jean, Roslindale
Ruthzee Louijeune, Hyde Park, incumbent
Marvin Dee Mathelier, Roxbury, veteran
Julia Mejia, Dorchester, incumbent
District 1 city council (East Boston, North End, Charlestown):
Andretti R Mcduffie-Stanziani, North End
Ricardo M Rodriguez, East Boston
Gabriela Coletta Zapata, East Boston, incumbent.
District 2 (South Boston, South End, Downtown, Chinatown):
Charles Jeffrey Delaney, South Boston
Edward M Flynn, South Boston, incumbent, veteran
Brian Matthew Foley, South Boston
District 3 (Dorchester):
No preliminary. Only incumbent John FitzGerald qualified for the ballot.
District 4 (Dorchester):
Brian J Worrell, Dorchester, incumbent
Helen Y Cameron, Dorchester
Juwan Khiry Skeens, Dorchester
District 5 (Hyde Park, Roslindale, Mattapan):
Winston Pierre, Hyde Park
Enrique Pepén, Roslindale, incumbent
Sharon L Hinton, Hyde Park
District 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain):
No preliminary; the two candidates (incumbent Benjamin Weber and Steven Ray Berry) advance to the November final.
District 7 (Roxbury, Dorchester, Fenway):
Said Abdirahman Abdikarim, Roxbury
Miniard Culpepper, Roxbury
Samuel Hurtado 13, Roxbury
Tchad Akilah Cort, Roxbury
Said Coach Ahmed, Roxbury
Natalie Juba-Sutherland, Roxbury
Wawa Bell, Roxbury
Shawn Dwayne Nelson, Roxbury
Roy A Owens Sr, Roxbury
Mavrick Afonso, Roxbury
Jerome King, Roxbury
District 8 (Beacon Hill, Back Bay, West End, Fenway, Mission Hill):
No preliminary. Only incumbent Sharon Durkan qualified for the ballot.
District 9 (Allston/Brighton):
No preliminary; the two candidates (incumbent Liz Breadon and Pilar Ortiz) advance to the November final.