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Elections are currently held every four years to elect the mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Before 1961, mayoral elections were partisan. Starting in 1961, they have been nonpartisan.
Terms had, originally, been for a length of a single year,[1] but were later extended to two years. Starting with the 2011 mayoral election, terms were extended further to four years.
- ^ The Revised Ordinances of the City of Springfield: Approved November 28, 1890, with the City Charter, Amendments, Special Statutes, Rules and Orders for the Regulation of Hackney Carriages, Rules and Orders of the Board of Alderman and of the Common Council, and the Joint Rules and Orders of the City Council. Springfield Printing & Binding Company. 1891. pp. 11–12. Retrieved April 26, 2021.