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1842 Chicago mayoral election
Results by ward
The 1842 Chicago Mayoral election Whig candidate and Former Mayor Benjamin Wright Raymond defeated Democratic candidate Augustus Garrett and Free Soil candidate Henry Smith by a six point margin.
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]
Garrett was a former Chicago alderman .[1]
This was the first Chicago mayoral election in which voters were not required to be freeholders .[2]
Results [ edit ]
Results by ward [ edit ]
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]
Ward
Raymond
Garrett
Smith
Total Votes
Votes
%
Votes
%
Votes
%
1st
162 58.1% 96 34.4%
21 7.5%
279
2nd
110
48.0%
168 73.4% 21 7.02%
299
3rd
26 57.8% 18 40.0%
1 2.2%
45
4th
13 44.8%
16 55.2% 0
0.0%
29
5th
52 59.8 35 40.2%
0
0.0%
87
6th
127 53.8% 99 42.0%
10 4.2%
236
References [ edit ]
^ a b "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 .
^ a b c Goodspeed, Weston A. (February 6, 2017). The History of Cook County, Illinois . Jazzybee Verlag. p. 339.
^ "Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007" . www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org . Retrieved January 2, 2021 .
^ Einhorn, Robin L. (2001). Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 34.
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