1849 Chicago mayoral election

1849 Chicago mayoral election
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Nominee James H. Woodworth Timothy Wait Lewis C. Kerchival
Party Independent Democrat Others Others
Popular vote 2,668 399 245
Percentage 80.02% 11.97% 7.35%

Mayor before election

James H. Woodworth
Independent Democrat

Elected mayor

James H. Woodworth
Independent Democrat

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1849, incumbent James H. Woodworth was reelected in a landslide.

This election made Woodworth the first Chicago mayor to be successfully reelected to a second consecutive term (an accolade that would have belonged to Augustus Garrett had the results of the March 1844 Chicago mayoral election not been declared null). Woodworth was also only the third mayor to be elected to a second term, after only Benjamin Wright Raymond and Augustus Garrett.