Boston mayoral candidate Domingos DaRosa failed to make it onto the general election ballot after a recount of votes cast in this month’s preliminary election.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu received 66,859 votes (72%) in the Sept. 9 preliminary election, according to the certified results shared by the city’s Elections Department on Monday. Her opponents, Josh Kraft, received 21,481 votes (23.1%), and Domingos DaRosa received 2,428 (2.6%).
Kraft dropped out of the race two days after the election, pledging to donate $3 million and help solve the open-air drug use problems and crime in the Massachusetts Avenue-Melnea Cass Boulevard area.
DaRosa then requested the recount in an attempt to continue his run against Wu in the November general election.
The top two finishers in the preliminary