Nine candidates elected to the Boston City Council.

They are Edward McCormack Jr., Francis Ahearn, John Collins, William Foley Jr., John Kerrigan, Patrick McDonough, Edward McLaughlin Jr., Gabriel Piemonte, and Joseph White. Foley is the top vote getter with 121,949. Collins was elected, despite having been struck down by polio 10 days before the September preliminary election, and is sworn in at his home by Mayor John Hynes, immediately after the mayor’s inaugural at Symphony Hall on January 2, 1956. Collins subsequently resigns to become Registrar of Probate and is replaced by Frederick Hailer Jr. on February 18, 1957.