1877 Chicago mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1877 Chicago mayoral election presidential no April 3, 1877 1876 (special) 1879 File:Monroe Heath (a).jpg Monroe Heath Republican Party (United States) 30,881 61.36% File:Perry H Smith in 1858 (a).jpg Perry H. Smith Democratic Party (United States) 19,449 38.64% Mayor Monroe Heath Republican Party (United States) Monroe Heath Republican Party (United States) In the Chicago mayoral election of 1877, Republican Monroe Heath was reelected, defeating Democrat Perry H. Smith by a more than twenty point margin. On April 23, 1875, Chicago had voted to operate under the Cities and Villages Act of 1872. This moved its mayoral elections from November to April. Chicago Public Library http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/chichart.html Legal Organization and Charter, City of Chicago January 18, 2007 Gale Neil In 1876, Thomas Hoyne and Harvey Doolittle Colvin were both Chicago Mayors at the same time. https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/02/in-1876-thomas-hoyne-and-harvey.html Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal February 13, 2013Pierce Bessie Louise A History of Chicago, Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893 345–346 2007 University of Chicago Press Chicago https://books.google.com/books?id=1yZ3hRGd8lwC 9780226668420 The 1877 election was the first Chicago mayoral election to be scheduled in accordance with this change (the disputed April 1876 election was nullified because it had not been officially scheduled). As a result, the election took place on April 3.https://www.chipublib.org/mayor-monroe-heath-biography/ Mayor Monroe Heath Biographyhttps://archive.org/details/chicagohistory03curr 335 Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth S. J. Clarke publishing Company Currey Josiah Seymour 1912 Results Heath won reelection by a large majority. Republicans managed to sweep all citywide offices in the municipal elections.History of Cook County, Illinois--: Being a General Survey of Cook County History, Including a Condensed History of Chicago and Special Account of Districts Outside the City Limits; from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2 edited by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, Daniel David Healy (page 580) 1877 Chicago mayoral electionThe Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1912 1911 Chicago Daily News, Incorporated 464 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ERgfAQAAMAAJ 12 May 2020 en Republican Party (United States) Monroe Heath(incumbent) 30,881 61.36 Democratic Party (United States) Perry H. Smith 19,449 38.64 50,330 References collapsed collapsed Category:Mayoral elections in Chicago Chicago Chicago Category:1870s in Chicago