2019 Boston City Council election

[1] Nomination forms could be submitted starting April 17, and candidates had a filing deadline of May 21.

[3] By law, Boston municipal elections are nonpartisan—candidates do not represent a specific political party.

[24] The general election was held on November 5, registering 16.5% voter turnout,[25] as 67,011 ballots were cast.

[27] Late on the night of the general election, with only a 10-vote margin between candidates for the final at-large seat, fifth-placed Alejandra Nicole St. Guillen called for a recount.

[25] The election department subsequently corrected the tallies of some hand-counted ballots, resulting in a margin of five votes as of November 13 (22,477 to 22,472),[28] and tallied provisional ballots, resulting in a margin of eight votes on November 15 (22,500 to 22,492).

[26] Recount signatures, and the results in all other contests, were planned to be certified by Board of Election Commissioners on November 20.

[27] Prior to the preliminary election: Prior to the general election: A non-binding advisory question was added to the November 5, 2019, ballot for all Boston residents asking, "Do you support the renaming/changing of the name of Dudley Square to Nubian Square?"

Election night results show that the question was defeated:[1] Mayor of Boston Marty Walsh subsequently announced that the question had "passed in the surrounding areas" near the square, 1,990 to 958, and could be considered further by the city's Public Improvement Commission.