James Michael Curley is fails to win reelection as mayor.

The last incumbent to be defeated for reelection Curley’s loses despite his previous analysis of the advantage enjoyed by mayoral incumbents. He once noted, “The population of Boston is about 740,000 and there are 14,700 people on the payrolls,” and suggest that they had an average of five family members and friends dependent on them and that there were another 6,000 or so lawyers, contractors, and vendors doing business with the city for a total of more than 100,00 people with “a personal interest in the payroll or expenditure of the city.” Curley said that the remaining residents “were only interested in the honest and efficient conduct of the city.”