Ray Flynn is reelected mayor of Boston.

Flynn (D), with 63,714 (67.5%), defeats Boston City Council President Joseph Tierney (D), with 30,714 (32.5%). Turnout is 98,951 or 40.8%. (94,300-BGL) Flynn wins 20 of 22 wards, losing only in his home wards of South Boston – which many attribute to announcement on October 28, 1987, only a few days before the election that the city would proceed with integrating the public housing developments in that neighborhood.