1842 Chicago mayoral election

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1842 Chicago mayoral election
  1841
1843  
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Nominee Benjamin W. Raymond Augustus Garrett Henry Smith
Party Whig Democratic Free Soil
Popular vote49043253
Percentage50.26%44.31%5.43%

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Results by ward

Mayor before election

Buckner Stith Morris
Whig

Elected mayor

Benjamin W. Raymond
Whig

In the 1842 Chicago Mayoral election saw Whig candidate and Former Mayor Benjamin Wright Raymond defeat Democratic candidate Augustus Garrett and Free Soil candidate Henry Smith by a six point margin.

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Raymond had previously served a term as mayor after winning the 1839 Chicago mayoral election, and had also previously unsuccessfully sought a second term in the 1840 Chicago mayoral election. By winning the 1842 election, Raymond became the first individual to serve more than one term as mayor of Chicago. [1]

This was the first Chicago mayoral election in which voters were not required to be freeholders. [2]

Results

1842 Chicago mayoral election [2] [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Whig Benjamin Wright Raymond 490 50.26
Democratic Augustus Garrett 43244.31
Free Soil Henry Smith535.43
Turnout 975

Results by ward

As with other mayoral elections of the era, returns in the city's wards heavily matched the partisan makeup of the votes that had been cast in the city's aldermanic election. [4] [2]

WardRaymondGarrettSmithTotal Votes
Votes %Votes %Votes %
1st 16258.1%9634.4%217.5%279
2nd 11036.8%16856.2%217.02%299
3rd 2657.8%1840.0%12.2%45
4th 1344.8%1655.2%00.0%29
5th 5259.83540.2%00.0%87
6th 12753.8%9941.9%104.2%236

References

  1. "Centennial List of Mayors, City Clerks, City Attorneys, City Treasurers, and Aldermen, elected by the people of the city of Chicago, from the incorporation of the city on March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1937, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the years during which each official held office". Archived from the original on September 4, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Goodspeed, Weston A. (February 6, 2017). The History of Cook County, Illinois. Jazzybee Verlag. p. 339.
  3. "Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  4. Einhorn, Robin L. (2001). Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 34.