Louise Day Hicks and Kevin White are the top finishers in the preliminary election for mayor.

Hicks (D), with 43,722 votes, becomes the first woman to make it to the final round in a Boston mayoral election, and employs the campaign slogan is, “You know where I stand,” a reference to her position against busing. White (D) receives 30,789 votes to finish second, followed by John Sears (R), with 23,924; Edward Logue (D), with 23,766; Christopher Ianella (D), with 18,343; Albert O’Neil (D), with 1,471; Stephen Davenport (D), with 9,016; Nicholas Abraham (D), with 2,295; Peter Hines (D), with 1,091; and John McDonough (D), with 830.