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Mayor Michelle Wu took 71.9% to Josh Kraft's 23.1% and won every ward; both advanced to November, but the 49-point margin ended Kraft's run two days later.

Two days after losing the preliminary by 49 points, Josh Kraft suspended his campaign, the first Boston mayoral finalist to quit since preliminaries began in 1951, leaving Wu effectively unopposed.

With Kraft withdrawn, Wu won 78,997 votes, 93% of ballots cast, and all four at-large city councillors kept their seats.

After a near-rejection, protests and arrests, councillors approved the $4.9 billion operating budget with $11.8 million of amendments, alongside a $4.4 billion five-year capital plan.

The Army Corps of Engineers' draft Boston Coastal Storm Risk Management study proposes more than 20 floodwalls, berms and floodgates along 16 miles of the city's 47-mile coastline, roughly $10 billion of work it says would prevent $41 billion in flood damage.

All 13 Boston City Council seats, nine district and four at-large, are up for their regular two-year election, the first test of the council after Wu's re-election.

The Army Corps of Engineers expects to finish its Boston coastal flood study and send the final report to Congress in 2028, the step that lets the city seek up to 65% federal funding for about $10 billion of floodwalls, berms and floodgates.

Boston's BERDO emissions limits drop by roughly 40% for offices and multifamily housing in 2030, and mid-size buildings of 20,000-35,000 sq ft or 15-34 units must comply for the first time.