The New York City mayoral election of 1933 took place on November 7, 1933, in New York City.[1] Incumbent Democratic Mayor John P. O'Brien, who was elected in a special election after the resignation of Mayor Jimmy Walker, faced RepublicanCongressman and 1929 mayoral candidate Fiorello La Guardia, and former acting mayor and President of the New York City Board of AldermenJoseph V. McKee, who became acting mayor after Walker's resignation until the special election, and ran on the Recovery Party line.[2]