1879 Chicago mayoral election

1879 Chicago mayoral election
← 1877 April 1, 1879 1881 →
 
Nominee Carter Harrison Sr. Abner Wright Ernst Schmidt
Party Democratic Republican Socialist Labor
Popular vote 25,685 20,496 11,829
Percentage 44.28% 35.33% 20.39%

Mayor before election

Monroe Heath
Republican

Elected mayor

Carter Harrison Sr.
Democratic

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1879, Democrat Carter Harrison Sr. defeated both Republican Abner Wright and socialist Ernst Schmidt in a three-way race. Harrison had a nearly nine point margin of victory.

Two-term incumbent Monroe Heath (who, at the time, was the longest-serving mayor in the city's history) did not run for reelection.

The election took place on April 1.[1][2]

This was the first of six mayoral elections in which Harrison would ultimately compete, and the first of five of which he would win.

  1. ^ "Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III Biography".
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