Boston City Council The Boston City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of Boston, Massachusetts. 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 ...

elections were held on November 8, 2005. Ten seats (six district representatives and four at-large members) were contested in the

general election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

, as the incumbents in districts 5, 7, and 8 were unopposed. Five seats (the four at-large members, and district 9) had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 27, 2005.

At-large

Councillors

Michael F. Flaherty Michael F. Flaherty (born May 4, 1969) is an at-large member of the Boston City Council. Flaherty is a member of the United States Democratic Party. He was elected Boston City Council Vice President in 2001 and Boston City Council President from ...

Felix D. Arroyo Felix D. Arroyo (born Apr 16, 1948) is the Register of Probate for Suffolk County, Massachusetts effective 2018, and a former at-large member of the Boston City Council. Early years Arroyo was raised in a public housing project in Puerto Rico by ...

, and Stephen J. Murphy were re-elected, while the seat formerly held by

Maura Hennigan Maura A. Hennigan (born 1952) 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 ...

was won by Sam Yoon. Hennigan did not seek re-election, as she ran for

Mayor of Boston The mayor of Boston is the head of the municipal government in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has a mayor–council government. Boston's mayoral elections are nonpartisan (as are all municipal elections in Boston), and elect a mayor to a four- ...

; she was defeated by incumbent

Thomas Menino Thomas Michael Menino (December 27, 1942 – October 30, 2014) was an American politician who served as the 53rd 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 ...

in the

. Yoon became the first

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to hold elected office in Boston. write-in votes

District 1

General election

Councillor Paul Scapicchio was re-elected.

Special election

Scapicchio resigned his seat effective April 30, 2006, in order to join a private lobbying firm. This created a vacancy that needed to be filled by a special election, which took place on June 13, 2006, with the preliminary election on May 16, 2006.

Salvatore LaMattina __NOTOC__ Salvatore "Sal" J. LaMattina (born September 8, 1959, in East Boston) is an American politician who is a former member of the Boston City Council. He represented District 1, which includes the North End, East Boston, and Charlestown, se ...

was elected to serve the remainder of Scapicchio's term.

District 2

General election

Councillor James M. Kelly was re-elected.

Special election

Kelly died in January 2007, creating a vacancy that needed to be filled by a special election, which took place on May 15, 2007, with the preliminary election on April 17, 2007.

Bill Linehan William P. Linehan is a former member and President of the Boston City Council in Boston, Massachusetts. He represented District 2, which includes Downtown Boston, the South End, South Boston and Chinatown.Maureen Feeney Maureen Feeney is an American politician who served on the Boston City Council and was the City Clerk of Boston, Massachusetts. City Council From 1994 to 2011 she represented Dorchester on the Boston City Council. She served as City Council pr ...

was re-elected.

District 4

Councillor

Charles Yancey Charles Calvin Yancey (born December 28, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States)

was re-elected. write-in votes

District 5

Councillor

Robert Consalvo Robert Consalvo (born July 16, 1969) is a Massachusetts State Representative, the former chief of staff for Boston Public Schools, and a former member of the Boston City Council. For 12 years he represented District 5, which includes the Hyde P ...

ran unopposed and was re-elected.

District 6

Councillor John M. Tobin Jr. was re-elected.

District 7

Councillor

Chuck Turner Charles Turner (June 10, 1940 – December 25, 2019) was an American politician and activist, who served on the Boston City Council representing District 7. Turner was a member of the Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts affiliate to the national G ...

ran unopposed and was re-elected.

District 8

Councillor Michael P. Ross ran unopposed and was re-elected.

District 9

Councillor Jerry P. McDermott was re-elected.

References

External links

2005 Election Results
at boston.gov {{2005 United States elections City Council election Boston City Council elections Boston City Council election

At-large

District 1

General election

Special election

District 2

General election

Special election

District 4

District 5

District 6

District 7

District 8

District 9

See also

References

Further reading

External links