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 (held at Young's Hotel) 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 (held at the Parker House) and Workingmen's Convention (held at the city's insolvency courtroom) both agreeing to nominate identical slates of candidates.