1929 Pittsburgh mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1929 Pittsburgh mayoral election Flag of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.svg presidential no 1925 Pittsburgh mayoral election 1925 1933 Pittsburgh mayoral election 1933 November 5, 1929 Charles H. Kline.png Charles H. Kline Republican Party (United States) 82,395 67.6% 3x4.svg Thomas A. Dunn Democratic Party (United States) 38,292 31.4% Mayor Charles H. Kline Republican Party (United States) Charles H. Kline Republican Party (United States) The Mayoral election of 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1929. Incumbent Republican mayor Charles H. Kline was re-elected over Thomas A. Dunn, who ran on the Democratic and Good Government party tickets. Until this election, no mayor of Pittsburgh had won consecutive terms since Henry A. Weaver in 1858, owing in part to a prior long-standing law prohibiting a mayor from succeeding himself.Townley John B. Politics and Personages The Pittsburgh Press August 7, 1932 8 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JFcbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XUsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5363%2C1067613 To date this was the last time a Republican was elected mayor of Pittsburgh. Primary elections Prior to the Great Depression, Republicans dominated city politics. In this party's primary, Kline won a plurality of votes over Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Richard W. Martin and City Council President James F. Malone. Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce president and future city police chief Dunn, although a registered Republican, entered the race as a Democrat and won that party's primary. Dunn also ran on a "Good Government" ticket, hoping to attract support from independents as well as disgruntled Republicans upset over corruption in the Kline government.Weber Michael P. Don't Call Me Boss: David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Renaissance Mayor University of Pittsburgh Press 1988 32–33 0-8229-3565-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=6iLEiXAgV0UC&pg=PA32 General election Dunn failed to pull in enough independents to compensate for the anemic Democratic vote as Kline won easily, taking 28 of 30 wards. Pittsburgh mayoral election, 1929Official Count Fixes Kline's Majority at 44,103 Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph November 17, 1929 part 1, p. 3 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55555577/ Newspapers.comReturn Board Ends Check on Election Vote Pittsburgh Post-Gazette November 18, 1929 p. 4, col. 1 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LalRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6mgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1512%2C3532931 (Typo: Dunn's Good Government vote shown as 8,494 instead of 8,454.)Kline's Majority Set at 44,103 by Official Count The Pittsburgh Press November 17, 1929 p. 10, col. 1 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55556411/ Newspapers.com (Typo: Dunn's total vote shown as 38,282 instead of 38,292.) Republican Party (United States) Charles H. Kline (incumbent) 82,395 67.6 Democratic Party (United States) Thomas A. Dunn 38,292* 31.4 Socialist Party of America William J. Van Essen 592 0.5 Prohibition Party H. Rea Garber 522 0.4 Communist Party USA Emmett Patrick Cush 149 0.1 121,950 100.0 Dunn received 29,838 votes on the Democratic ticket and 8,454 votes on the Good Government slate. References 1925 Pittsburgh mayoral election1929 1933 collapsed Category:1929 Pennsylvania elections 1929 Category:1929 United States mayoral elections Category:1920s in Pittsburgh Category:November 1929 in the United States