City council race for Eastie, North End, Charlestown comes to a head Tuesday
Voter fatigue is a concern after the litany of recent election days.
The special election contest that concludes Tuesday between Gabriela “Gigi” Coletta and Tania Del Rio, who are competing to replace Lydia Edwards on the Boston City Council, has in many ways flown under the radar.
In what typically is considered the offseason for city political campaigns, Tuesday will mark the fifth time voters from a good-sized chunk of the council district head to the polls since September. The vote follows two mayoral contests and two state Senate Election Days. (Edwards is leaving the council seat, which represents East Boston, Charlestown, and the North End, for the state Senate, a post for which she ran unopposed in January after winning a primary the previous month.)
The council race features two candidates who largely agree on many of the major challenges facing the district. Both cite the city’s ongoing housing crisis and climate change as major and knotty problems that affect the everyday lives of Bostonians. And there have been few campaign fireworks in what has largely been a civil affair between the two candidates. The brief moments the race has garnered significant media attention, it was for old, problematic social media posts that prompted apologies from both contenders.
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