The November election includes races for the following city offices: mayor, 16 at-large councilors, 8 ward councilors, and 8 school committee members.
Application deadline for mail-in voting is Wednesday, October 27, 2021. Early voting is available at City Hall from Monday, October 25 through Saturday, October 30
Read below for more information on who the candidates are and how to plan your vote. Read more →
This year, the League will once again create an online Voters Guide and host Candidate Forums for the municipal election for Mayor, City Councilors, and School Committee members on November 2, 2021.
The LWVN Voters Guide and Candidate Forums are neutral forums where we invite all candidates to provide answers to the public, as part of our mission to encourage informed and active participation in government. The League of Women Voters is nonpartisan: this means we neither support nor oppose candidates or political parties at any level of government. We do advocate for issues we have studied and taken positions on, but we do not support or oppose candidates.
Help us formulate questions to cover a wide variety of topics in our Voters Guide and to use in our Candidate Forums! Please submit your question(s) for any of the groups of candidates — for Mayor, City Councilor, or School Committee. You may submit this form as many times as needed to ask multiple questions of different candidate groups.
Three candidates are running for the position of Mayor. A preliminary election will be held on Tuesday, September 14 to narrow the selection of candidates to two for the general election in November.
The three candidates for Mayor include:
Registration deadline for the preliminary election is Wednesday, August 25, 2021.
Read below for more information about how to plan your vote.
This year, the League will once again create an online Voters Guide and host Candidate Forums for the upcoming municipal election for Mayor, City Councilors, and School Committee members. We will create a guide and host forums for both the preliminary election in September, and then for the regular election in November.
The LWVN Voters Guide and Candidate Forums are neutral forums where we invite all candidates to provide answers to the public, as part of our mission to encourage informed and active participation in government. The League of Women Voters is nonpartisan: this means we neither support nor oppose candidates or political parties at any level of government. We do advocate for issues we have studied and taken positions on, but we do not support or oppose candidates.
Help us formulate questions to cover a wide variety of topics in our Voters Guide and to use in our Candidate Forums! We are currently requesting questions for the preliminary election in particular, and will be issuing a new request for questions for the regular election. Please submit your question(s) for any of the groups of candidates — for Mayor, City Councilor, or School Committee — by July 25. You may submit this form as many times as needed to ask multiple questions of different candidate groups.
Given the national focus on voting rights and suppression and our mission — Empowering voters. Defending democracy — the League thought it was important to provide more information on legislation put forward by State Senator Cindy Creem and State Representative John Lawn. Therefore, we invited Senator Creem to join The League Presents to tell us about An Act Fostering Voting Opportunities, Trust, Equity, and Security, or The VOTES Act. It is supported by the LWVMA, which notes that the Election Modernization Coalition has called it “the most comprehensive next step for Massachusetts elections.” The legislation includes the following components:
It is important to note that we also talked about the fact that others are in the process of putting forward legislation that would restrict voter access. We all need to become educated and active relative to the passing of this important legislation. To learn more please view this episode of The League Presents: The VOTES Act with State Senator Creem.