Cambridge mayoral election heads to a runoff

Residents in Cambridge will have to wait until a December runoff to find out who their next mayor will be, after no candidate topped 50% of the vote in Saturday’s regular election.

The runoff will feature Lajan Cephas, the City Council president who garnered 637 votes for 42.52%, and former mayor Andrew Bradshaw, who took 614 votes for 40.99%. A third candidate for mayor, former city commissioner La-Shon Foster, took 247 votes for 16.49% and will not appear on the Dec. 3 ballot.

A little over 1,500 of Cambridge’s 9,000 registered voters went to the polls, city officials said. The winner of the mayoral race will be replace Mayor Stephen Rideout, who won a 2022 special election to finish Bradshaw’s term. Bradshaw resigned earlier that year after being charged by the state prosecutor’s office on 50 counts of distributing revenge porn on Reddit.

All of Cambridge’s five city council races were decided on Saturday and will not require a runoff. Two of the five commissioners were reelected, and one commissioner lost her bid for another term.


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