1842 Chicago mayoral election

1842 Chicago mayoral election
	Results by ward
Mayor before election; Buckner Stith Morris; Whig	Elected Mayor ; Benjamin W. Raymond; Whig

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1842, Whig candidate Benjamin Wright Raymond defeated Democratic candidate Augustus Garrett and Free Soil candidate Henry Smith by a 6 point margin.

Raymond had previously served a term as mayor after winning the 1839 Chicago mayoral election, and had also previously unsuccessfully sought a second term in the 1840 Chicago mayoral election. By winning the 1842 election, Raymond became the first individual to serve more than one term as mayor of Chicago.[1]

Garrett was a former alderman.[1]

This was the first Chicago mayoral election in which voters were not required to be freeholders.[2]

General election

**1842 Chicago mayoral election**[2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Benjamin Wright Raymond	490	50.26
	Democratic	Augustus Garrett	432	44.31
	Free Soil	Henry Smith	53	5.43
Turnout			975

Results by ward

As with other mayoral elections of the era, returns in the city's wards heavily matched the partisan makeup of the votes that had been cast in the city's aldermanic election.[4][2]

Ward	Raymond		Garrett		Smith		Total Votes
Ward	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Total Votes
1st	162	58.1%	96	34.4%	21	7.5%	279
2nd	110	48.0%	168	73.4%	21	7.02%	299
3rd	26	57.8%	18	40.0%	1	2.2%	45
4th	13	44.8%	16	55.2%	0	0.0%	29
5th	52	59.8	35	40.2%	0	0.0%	87
6th	127	53.8%	99	42.0%	10	4.2%	236

References

"Centennial List of Mayors, City Clerks, City Attorneys, City Treasurers, and Aldermen, elected by the people of the city of Chicago, from the incorporation of the city on March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1937, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the years during which each official held office". Archived from the original on September 4, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
Goodspeed, Weston A. (Feb 6, 2017). The History of Cook County, Illinois. Jazzybee Verlag. p. 339.
"RaceID=486021". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
Einhorn, Robin L. (2001). Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 34.

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[chs-1] "Centennial List of Mayors, City Clerks, City Attorneys, City Treasurers, and Aldermen, elected by the people of the city of Chicago, from the incorporation of the city on March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1937, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the years during which each official held office". Archived from the original on September 4, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2018.

[cookhist-2] Goodspeed, Weston A. (Feb 6, 2017). The History of Cook County, Illinois. Jazzybee Verlag. p. 339.

[3] "RaceID=486021". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 3, 2018.

[4] Einhorn, Robin L. (2001). Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 34.

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