There may have only been one option in the Boston mayoral race this year, but we asked Herald readers to choose from many: Who was your favorite Hub mayor?

Winning a resounding 50.4% of our respondents’ votes, Thomas Menino earned the title of Herald readers’ favorite mayor.

Menino held the city’s highest office for more than 20 years, serving as mayor from 1993 to 2014.

Boston Herald front page from July 13, 1993. (Herald archive)

Another two 20th century mayors rounded out the podium, with former Mayor Kevin White landing second place with 14.3% of the vote and former Mayor Raymond Flynn securing third with 12.4%.

Mayor Kevin White and his wife, Kathyrn, offer a toast to Dame Boston during luncheon tendered by White for some 70 colleagues, including new members of the city council and school committee, at the Ritz-Carlton. The luncheon was brief, for the mayor and his wife and most of the others in attendance still faced an evening of festivities at the inaugural ball at the Sheraton Boston. Boston Herald file photo

White served as mayor from 1968 to 1984, succeeded by Flynn, who held the office from 1984 to 1993.

MAKING HIS POINT: Mayor Raymond L. Flynn speaks during a 1992 hearing on education at the Gardner Auditorium.

Former mayors Marty Walsh and James Curley followed in our poll results, while current Mayor Michelle Wu, John Hynes and James Collins receiving a handful of votes each.

Our readers’ favorite mayor, Menino was the longest-serving leader of Boston, directing the city through major events such as the Boston Marathon bombing. He died in 2014 after a battle with cancer and is remembered as a “bold, big-hearted” mayor who sought to make the city inclusive and prosperous.

He has since been immortalized with the official renaming of the Thomas Michael Menino Convention and Exhibition Center this summer.