Boston Mayor Michelle Wu easily topped the ticket in Tuesday’s preliminary, and will move onto the November general election, when she will face longtime philanthropist Josh Kraft, who was trailing her by roughly 40 points soon after polls closed.

Wu, the popular first-term progressive mayor, was so far ahead of her three challengers that the race was called for her by the Associated Press before 8:30 p.m. Polls closed at 8 p.m.

Early results were in line with an Emerson College poll released last week that showed Kraft was behind Wu by 50 points, with just days to go before the preliminary election.

As of 8:30 p.m. Wu had roughly 68 percent of the vote. Kraft, a son of the billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, had roughly 28% of the vote. The Associated Press called the

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