1929 New York City mayoral election

none January 2025 January 2020 1929 New York City mayoral election New York City presidential no 1925 New York City mayoral election 1925 1932 New York City special mayoral election 1932 November 5, 1929 James Walker NYWTS crop.jpg Jimmy Walker Democratic Party (US) 867,522 60.70% La Gaurdia LCCN2014715592 Crop.jpg Fiorello H. La Guardia Republican Party (US) 367,675 25.73% Norman Thomas 1937.jpg Norman Thomas Socialist Party of America 175,697 12.29% Mayor Jimmy Walker Democratic Party (US) Jimmy Walker Democratic Party (US) New York City Mayor 1929.png A map of Assembly districts by their vote in the 1929 New York City mayoral election. All voted for Walker to varying degrees. Results by Assembly districtWalker: #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1c4786 70–80% #112C55 80–90% The 1929 New York City mayoral election was held on November 5 in concert with other municipal elections.McGoldrick Joseph 1930 The New York City Election of 1929 https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400114406/type/journal_article American Political Science Review en 24 3 688–690 10.2307/1946937 1946937 146912519 0003-0554 subscription Democratic incumbent Jimmy Walker defeated Republican challenger Fiorello H. La Guardia in what was considered "a Crushing Defeat to [the] City G.O.P. [delivered]" by Tammany Hall.497,165 plurality hailed by Walker as a vindication https://www.newspapers.com/image/59883701/ subscription January 24, 2020 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 89 308 1 November 6, 1929 Newspapers.com Socialist candidate Norman Thomas also ran, as did Socialist Labor candidate Olive M. Johnson and former Police Commissioner Richard Edward Enright for the Square Deal Party. Republican primary Candidates Fiorello LaGuardia, U.S. Representative from East Harlem William M. Bennett, former State Senator from Manhattan and perennial candidate La Guardia gave his acceptance speech at the Mecca Temple.Mann 1965 104 Results 1929 Republican mayoral primaryhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=141650 Our Campaigns - NYC Mayor - R Primary Race - Sep 17, 1929 Fiorello LaGuardia Republican Party (US) 62,894 78.62% William M. Bennett Republican Party (US) 17,100 21.38% 79,994 100.00% General election Results Walker won with a plurality of 497,165 votes, which had been the largest ever recorded for a mayoral candidate up to that time. This record would stand for more than five years, being surpassed when the 1935 Chicago mayoral election was won by a plurality of 631,579.Decatur Daily Democrat 3 April 1935 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=DCDD19350403.1.6&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- newspapers.library.in.gov (Hoosier State Chronicles) 33 80 Decatur Daily Democrat United Press 12 June 2025 6 April 3, 1935 Walker won the absolute majority of votes in all five boroughs. The results were part of a larger Democratic landslide in which Democrats won the position of President of the Board of Aldermen, Comptroller, all positions in Brooklyn, and all Borough Presidencies except Queens, and gained 2 seats in the Assembly and 3 in the Board of Aldermen from Republicans. Thomas's results were the highest recorded by the Socialist party to that date. 1929 mayoral electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=79429 Our Campaigns - New York City Mayor Race - Nov 05, 1929 www.ourcampaigns.com Jimmy Walker (inc.) Democratic Party (US) 867,522 60.70% Fiorello LaGuardia Republican Party (US) 367,675 25.73% Norman Thomas Socialist Party of America 175,697 12.29% Olive M. Johnson Socialist Labor Party (United States) 6,401 0.45% William Weinstone Communist Party USA 5,805 0.41% Richard Enright Square Deal 5,695 0.40% Lawrence W. Tracy Commonwealth Land 320 0.02% 1,429,115 100.00% Aftermath Despite his success, Walker would be embroiled in scandal in 1932 and forced to resign.Emery Frank Rose to Power On Chessboard of Tiger Chiefs https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18847824/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/ 24 January 2020 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 91 244 6 September 2, 1932 Newspapers.com Endorsements Thomas Endorsements Newspapers The Nation, weekly magazineMann 1965 109 Organizations Citizens UnionSoyer 2021 19-20 References Works cited Mann Arthur La Guardia Comes To Power 1933 J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1965 https://archive.org/details/laguardiacomesto0000unse Soyer Daniel Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv1hw3x50.2 Cornell University Press 2021 10.7591/j.ctv1hw3x50.2 9781501759888 Mayoral election New York City mayoral election New York City Category:Mayoral elections in New York City New York City mayoral election Category:Tammany Hall Category:Fiorello La Guardia