Now the hard part starts.
The city's voters were apparently unfazed by the debut of ranked-choice voting Tuesday, but the inherent mathematical complexity of the new system will start unfolding this morning.
Starting late this morning and potentially continuing for more than a month, city election judges and staff members are counting every ballot cast Tuesday by hand.
Most of the candidates who were on the ballot still can't be sure who won, because of the city's new method of voting.
"In all, in maybe 75 percent of the races you can't tell yet who won because no one is well above the threshold you need to win," said Patrick O'Connor, the city's election director.
His staff's task is to figure out how voters ranked their top three candidate choices under the system also known as instant runoff voting.
But candidates in tight races will now discover that there's nothing instant about the process.
Under the ranked-choice voting system, a candidate needs 50 percent of the vote plus one to win. When that doesn't happen in a race, voters' second and third choices are added up until a winner emerges.