1843 Chicago mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1843 Chicago mayoral election presidential no 1842 1844 File:Augustusgarrett (1).jpeg Augustus Garrett Democratic Party (United States) 671 61.17% File:3x4.svg Thomas Church Whig Party (United States) 381 34.73% Mayor Benjamin Wright Raymond Whig Party (United States) Augustus Garrett Democratic Party (United States) In the 1843 Chicago mayoral election, Democratic nominee Augustus Garrett defeated Whig nominee Thomas Church and Liberty nominee Henry Smith by a landslide 26.5% margin. Incumbent Whig Benjamin Wright Raymond did not run for reelection to a third term. Democratic nominee Augustus Garrett had been an unsuccessful election in the preceding 1842 election. He was also a former city alderman.http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/LIB/AldermansList.htm 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. December 24, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180904052355/http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/LIB/AldermansList.htm September 4, 2018 dead Like Garrett, Liberty candidate Henry Smith had also been a candidate in the previous election. 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.Einhorn Robin L. Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 University of Chicago Press Chicago 34 2001 Results 1843 Chicago mayoral electionChicago Mayors, 1837-2007 http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1443.html www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org 2 January 2021 RaceID=486022 Our Campaigns http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=486022 2018-12-12 Democratic Party (United States) Augustus Garrett 671 61.17 Whig Party (United States) Thomas Church 381 34.73 Liberty Party (United States, 1840) Henry Smith 45 4.10 1,097 References collapsed Category:Mayoral elections in Chicago Chicago Chicago Category:1840s in Chicago Category:March 1843