| Election Name: | 1842 Chicago mayoral election |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Year: | 1841 |
| Next Year: | 1843 |
| Image1: | BWRaymond (1).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Benjamin W. Raymond |
| Party1: | Whig Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote1: | 490 |
| Percentage1: | 50.26% |
| Nominee2: | Augustus Garrett |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote2: | 432 |
| Percentage2: | 44.31% |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Buckner Stith Morris |
| Before Party: | Whig Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Benjamin W. Raymond |
| After Party: | Whig Party (United States) |
| Image3: | 3x4.svg |
| Nominee3: | Henry Smith |
| Party3: | Free Soil Party |
| Popular Vote3: | 53 |
| Percentage3: | 5.43% |
In the 1842 Chicago Mayoral election saw Whig candidate and Former Mayor Benjamin Wright Raymond defeat Democratic candidate Augustus Garrett and Free Soil candidate Henry Smith by a six point margin.
Raymond had previously served a term as mayor after winning the 1839 Chicago mayoral election, and had also previously unsuccessfully sought a second term in the 1840 Chicago mayoral election. By winning the 1842 election, Raymond became the first individual to serve more than one term as mayor of Chicago.[1]
This was the first Chicago mayoral election in which voters were not required to be freeholders.
As with other mayoral elections of the era, returns in the city's wards heavily matched the partisan makeup of the votes that had been cast in the city's aldermanic election.[2] [3]
| Ward | Raymond | Garrett | Smith | Total Votes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1st | 162 | 58.1% | 96 | 34.4% | 21 | 7.5% | 279 | ||
| 2nd | 110 | 48.0% | 168 | 73.4% | 21 | 7.02% | 299 | ||
| 3rd | 26 | 57.8% | 18 | 40.0% | 1 | 2.2% | 45 | ||
| 4th | 13 | 44.8% | 16 | 55.2% | 0 | 0.0% | 29 | ||
| 5th | 52 | 59.8 | 35 | 40.2% | 0 | 0.0% | 87 | ||
| 6th | 127 | 53.8% | 99 | 42.0% | 10 | 4.2% | 236 | ||