1877 Chicago mayoral election

1877 Chicago mayoral election
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Nominee Monroe Heath Perry H. Smith
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 30,881 19,449
Percentage 61.36% 38.64%

Mayor before election

Monroe Heath
Republican

Elected mayor

Monroe Heath
Republican

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1877, Republican Monroe Heath was reelected, defeating Democrat Perry H. Smith by a more than twenty point margin.

On April 23, 1875, Chicago had voted to operate under the Cities and Villages Act of 1872. This moved its mayoral elections from November to April.[1][2][3] The 1877 election was the first Chicago mayoral election to be scheduled in accordance with this change (the disputed April 1876 election was nullified because it had not been officially scheduled). As a result, the election took place on April 3.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Legal Organization and Charter, City of Chicago". Chicago Public Library. Retrieved January 18, 2007.
  2. ^ Gale, Neil (February 13, 2013). "In 1876, Thomas Hoyne and Harvey Doolittle Colvin were both Chicago Mayors at the same time". Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal.
  3. ^ Pierce, Bessie Louise (2007). A History of Chicago, Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 345–346. ISBN 9780226668420.
  4. ^ "Mayor Monroe Heath Biography".
  5. ^ Currey, Josiah Seymour (1912). Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 335.