2011 Chicago mayoral election
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]
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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:
- Gery Chico, former chief of staff to mayor Richard M. Daley and former chairman of the City Colleges of Chicago
- Miguel del Valle, City Clerk of Chicago and former Illinois State Senator
- Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff and former U.S. Representative from Illinois's 5th district
- Carol Moseley Braun, former U.S. Senator from Illinois and former United States Ambassador to New Zealand
- Patricia Van Pelt Watkins, non-profit administrator and activist
- William "Dock" Walls, community activist, businessman, former aide to Mayor Harold Washington and perennial candidate
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Chairman
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Businessman
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2011 Chicago Mayoral Election Media
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References
- ↑ "Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago".
- ↑ Denvir, Daniel (May 22, 2015). Voter Turnout in U.S. Mayoral Elections Is Pathetic, But It Wasn't Always This Way. City Lab (The Atlantic). https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/05/mayoral-election-voting-turnout/393737/. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ↑ Webber, Tammy (September 7, 2010). Chicago Mayor Daley won't run for re-election. Yahoo! News. https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100907/ap_on_el_st_lo/us_chicago_mayor. Retrieved September 7, 2010.
- ↑ Cillizza, Chris (November 15, 2010). Jeb Bush rules out presidential run – for now. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/morning-fix/-1-2-republican-joe.html. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Reiss, Dawn (September 9, 2010). "Who Wants to Be Next Mayor of Chicago?". Time. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2016991,00.html. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
- ↑ Davey, Monica (February 22, 2011). "Rahm Emanuel Elected Mayor of Chicago". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/us/chicago-mayor-election.html.
- ↑ Mack, Kristen; Heinzmann, David (February 23, 2011). "Rahm Emanuel wins Chicago mayor race". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/la-naw-chicago-election-20110223,0,6238685.story.
