David Ertischek, Wicked Local
- Come the end of January there will be two new faces sitting on the Boston City Council after newcomers Felix G. Arroyo and Ayanna Pressley were elected to office. Stephen Murphy and John Connolly, the two incumbents on the ballot, will join the two new councilors, as both were reelected.
Pressley will be the first African-American woman to serve on the Boston City Council. Arroyo will follow in the footsteps of his father, Felix Arroyo, who was also an at-large Boston City Councilor.
Connolly, a West Roxbury resident, took first citywide according to unofficial results from Boston’s Election Department. In total, Connolly netted 51,308 votes, or 18.35 percent of votes cast citywide.
