Recounts for Boston's mayoral, District 7 races scheduled

ollowing challenges by losing candidates, election officials in Boston will oversee recounts in two key races this weekend.

One series of recounts concerns the crowded race to succeed Tania Fernandes Anderson as the representative of District 7 on the City Council. The other recount effort was initiated by the mayoral candidate who placed third in the preliminary election.

In the District 7 race, 11 candidates ran for two spots in the general election. Said Ahmed and Miniard Culpepper came out ahead, but just barely. The top-five vote-getters were all within around 100 votes of each other. The third-place finisher, Mavrick Afonso, received just 20 votes less than Culpepper.

Afonso successfully gathered enough signatures to file recount petitions in four of the six wards located in District 7, according to the city of Boston’s election department. A few of his fellow candidates joined him in pushing for a recount.


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