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1915 Chicago mayoral election information


1915 Chicago mayoral election
← 1911 April 6, 1915 1919 →
Turnout89% Increase 2 pp[1]
 
Nominee William Hale Thompson Robert Sweitzer
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 398,538 251,061
Percentage 58.78% 37.03%

Mayor before election

Carter Harrison Jr.
Democratic

Elected Mayor

William Hale Thompson
Republican

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1915, Republican William Hale Thompson defeated Democrat Robert Sweitzer.

Five-term incumbent Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was defeated in the Democratic primary by Cook County Clerk Sweitzer. In the Republican primary, Thompson defeated Harry Olson by a 1.33% margin. Thompson was a former Cook County commissioner and former Chicago alderman, while Olson was the incumbent chief justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago.

This was the first mayoral election to take place in Chicago after Illinois granted partial women's suffrage, enabling women to vote in Chicago mayoral elections among other elections.[2] The election was held on April 6.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference accuracy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Illinois women win the right to vote". Chicago Tribune. June 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference whtpublib1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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