1865 Boston mayoral election

The Boston mayoral election of 1865 saw Frederic W. Lincoln Jr. reelected to a seventh overall term.

Nomination

In late-November, Mayor Frederic W. Lincoln Jr. accepted renomination for the mayoralty.
A week before the election, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff was unanimously nominated by the city's Democratic Party at its convention after having been selected by the party's Committee of Conference as its recommended candidate. He was also nominated on the Citizens and Workingmen's tickets, the Citizens' convention and Workingmen's Convention both agreeing to nominate identical slates of candidates.