1889 Chicago mayoral election
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1889, Democrat DeWitt Clinton Cregier defeated incumbent Republican John A. Roche, winning a majority of the vote and a margin of victory in excess of ten percent.
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Campaign
Cregier backed strongly by trade unions.[3] John Peter Altgeld threw his backing behind Cregier's candidacy.[3]
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | DeWitt Clinton Cregier | 57,340 | 54.93 | |
Republican | John A. Roche (incumbent) | 46,328 | 44.38 | |
Prohibition | Ira J. Mason | 410 | 0.39 | |
Socialist | Charles Orchardson | 303 | 0.29 | |
Turnout | 104,381 |
Creiger received 76.86% of the Polish-American vote, while Roche received 23.07%.[4]
References
- The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1912. Chicago Daily News, Incorporated. 1911. p. 464. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- Currey, Josiah Seymour (1912). Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 335.
- Kersten, Andrew E. (2011). Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast. Macmillan. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8090-9486-8. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- Kantowicz, Edward. “The Emergence of the Polish-Democratic Vote in Chicago.” Polish American Studies, vol. 29, no. 1/2, 1972, pp. 67–80. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20147849.
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