1901 Chicago mayoral election

1901 Chicago mayoral election
← 1899 April 2, 1901 1903 →
Turnout74% Decrease 11 pp[1]
 
Nominee Carter Harrison Jr. Elbridge Hanecy
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 156,766 128,413
Percentage 52.69% 43.16%

Mayor before election

Carter Harrison Jr.
Democratic

Elected mayor

Carter Harrison Jr.
Democratic

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1901, Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was reelected to a third term, defeating Republican nominee Elbridge Hanecy by a 9.5% margin of victory.

The election took place on April 2.[2][3][4] Until 2019, no subsequent election had more candidates running on its ballot.

Ahead of the election, there were competitive races to receive the two major party's nominations at their municipal nominating conventions. Mayor Harrison was challenged for the Democratic Party nomination by former governor John Peter Altgeld. However, Altgeld was politically weaker than he once had been, and Harrison easily fended him off. In the March indirect primary to elect the delegates to the city's nominating convention, delegates supporting Harrison won a broad majority. At the convention, Harrison received the party's nomination by acclamation. The Republican Party had a large field of candidates seeking its nomination. Along with Elbridge Hanecy (who was a judge on the Circuit Court of Cook County), the two other front-running contenders for the Republican nomination were William Boldenweck and former alderman John Maynard Harlan. Other contenders that Henry beat were Judge Marcus Kavanaugh, Aldermen William Mavor, Frank T. Fowler, and former alderman Walter J. Raymer.

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  3. ^ Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV Biography
  4. ^ Currey, Josiah Seymour (1912). Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 335.