2019 Chicago mayoral election

2019 Chicago mayoral election

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Turnout	35.32%[1][2] 5.78 pp (first round) 31.28%[3] 4.04 pp (second round)
Candidate Lori Lightfoot Toni Preckwinkle Bill Daley First-round vote 97,330 88,998 82,019 First-round percentage 17.54% 16.04% 14.78% Second-round vote 364,965 130,327 Second-round percentage 73.69% 26.31%   Candidate Willie Wilson Susana Mendoza Amara Enyia First-round vote 58,831 50,199 44,372 First-round percentage 10.60% 9.05% 8.00%   Candidate Jerry Joyce Gery Chico Paul Vallas First-round vote 40,014 34,420 30,154 First-round percentage 7.21% 6.20% 5.44%
Lightfoot won all 50 wards in the runoff   84–88%   79–84%   74–79%   69–74%   64–69%   59–64%   54-59%
Mayor before election Rahm Emanuel Elected Mayor Lori Lightfoot

An election for Mayor of Chicago in which the first round was held on February 26, 2019. Since no candidate received a majority of votes, a runoff election will be held on April 2, 2019. Incumbent Rahm Emanuel was able to run for a third term, as there are no term limits for the office of Mayor of Chicago, but on September 4, 2018 declined to seek a third term.^[4][5]

Emanuel was first elected in 2011, when he took 55.19% of the vote in a four candidate field. He was reelected in 2015, receiving 55.7% of the vote in the runoff election.

The total of fourteen candidates on the mayoral ballot is record-setting for Chicago mayoral elections.^[6]

In the first round election, Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle advanced to the runoff election.^[7] Lightfoot was elected in a victory landslide, becoming the first African-American woman mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot will also be the first openly LGBT Mayor of Chicago.^[8] Lightfoot won all fifty of the city's wards.^[9]

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