Councilwoman Sukh Kaur , who faced one of toughest reelection races of any sitting council member this year, fended off nine challengers to win a second term in District 1.

She bested challenger Patty Gibbons with 64.99% to 35.01% in Saturday’s runoff.

Speaking to supporters Saturday night at Roundabout in Beacon Hill, Kaur nodded to how unusually personal the 10-person race became.

“This has been a really tough campaign,” Kaur said Saturday, drawing laughter from the audience. “Politics is dirty. I have learned how thick my skin truly is.”

Critics used the open records process to pore through District 1 council staff’s emails and text messages, hired a private investigator to follow the councilwoman to a bar, and even dug up a sealed DWI record from 12 years ago, when Kaur was

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