2011 Chicago mayoral election

Chicago mayoral election, 2011
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Turnout42.3%[1][2] Increase 9.22 pp
 
Candidate Rahm Emanuel Gery Chico Miguel del Valle
Popular vote 326,331 141,228 54,689
Percentage 55.19% 23.89% 9.25%
 
Candidate Carol Moseley Braun
Popular vote 53,062
Percentage 8.97%
Results by ward:

Emanuel:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Chico:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Mayor before election

Richard M. Daley

 Elected Mayor

Rahm Emanuel

The city of Chicago, Illinois held a non-partisan mayoral election on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Mayor Richard M. Daley, a member of the Democratic Party who had been in office since 1989, did not seek a seventh term as mayor.[3]

Candidates needed to collect 12,500 petition signatures by November 22, 2010 to qualify for a place on the ballot.[4] April 5, 2011 was scheduled to be a runoff election date if no candidate received a majority.[5][6]

Rahm Emanuel won the race for mayor with more than 55% of the vote.[7] He was inaugurated on May 16, 2011.[8]

Six candidates appeared on the February 22 ballot:

References

  1. ↑ "Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago".
  2. ↑ Denvir, Daniel (May 22, 2015). "Voter Turnout in U.S. Mayoral Elections Is Pathetic, But It Wasn't Always This Way". Bloomberg. City Lab (The Atlantic). Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Webber, Tammy (September 7, 2010). "Chicago Mayor Daley won't run for re-election". Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on September 11, 2010. Retrieved September 7, 2010.
  4. ↑ Cillizza, Chris (November 15, 2010). "Jeb Bush rules out presidential run – for now". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Puerto Rican Vying to Be Chicago's First Hispanic Mayor". Latin American Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
  6. ↑ Reiss, Dawn (September 9, 2010). "Who Wants to Be Next Mayor of Chicago?". Time. Archived from the original on September 15, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
  7. ↑ Davey, Monica (February 22, 2011). "Rahm Emanuel Elected Mayor of Chicago". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ Mack, Kristen; Heinzmann, David (February 23, 2011). "Rahm Emanuel wins Chicago mayor race". Los Angeles Times.