Mayoralty of Michelle Wu

Michelle Wu has served as mayor of Boston since November 2021. Wu was elected mayor in 2021, winning with 64% of the vote, becoming the first woman, first person of color, and first Asian American elected to serve as the mayor of Boston. At 36 years of age, was also the youngest individual elected to the office in nearly a century. Wu is a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to being sworn in as mayor, Wu served as a member of the Boston City Council.

An advocate for a municipal "Green New Deal" (the Boston Green New Deal), as mayor Wu signed an ordinance to divest city investments from companies that derive more than 15 percent of their revenue from fossil fuels, tobacco products, or prison facilities. She also has announced plans for the city to spend $2 billion on school construction projects as part of a "Green New Deal" for the city's public schools. As mayor, she has also taken actions related to increasing affordable housing in the city and took actions related to address city's COVID-19 pandemic. A supporter of fare-free public transportation, Wu has funded a two-year period of fare-free service on three MBTA bus routes, expanding on a single-route pilot program that had previously been started under Kim Janey's preceding acting mayoralty. Wu signed an executive order which outlined the formula for what funds developers building in the city's downtown must contribute to fund child care services in the city, building upon a decades-old policy that had previously lacked needed specificity. Wu also reached a contract agreement with the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association that secured the union's agreement to significant reforms within the Boston Police Department. Wu's administration also has implemented initiatives to decrease crime in the city. In her first term, the city twice set record lows for its annual homicide rates. In late-2024, United States Conference of Mayors described Boston as "the safest big city in America" and "a model of urban safety" and the Vera Institute of Justice agreed with a description of Boston as "one of the safest major cities" in the United States.

During her 2025 campaign for re-election, her challenger Josh Kraft's campaign spent record amounts of money against her in advance of the non-partisan preliminary (primary election). However, Wu won more than 71 percent of the vote in the preliminary (a 49-point lead over Kraft), which motivated Kraft to withdraw his name from the general election ballot leaving Wu unopposed on the November 2025 general election ballot. Without an opponent listed on the general election ballot, Wu won the general election with more than 93% of votes cast (the remainder going to write-ins).