Election Name: | 1867 Chicago mayoral election |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Election Date: | April 16, 1867 |
Previous Year: | 1865 |
Next Year: | 1869 |
Image1: | File:JBrice (1).jpg |
Nominee1: | John Blake Rice |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 11,904 |
Percentage1: | 59.89% |
Nominee2: | Francis Cornwall Sherman |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 7,971 |
Percentage2: | 40.11% |
Mayor | |
Before Election: | John Blake Rice |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | John Blake Rice |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1867, incumbent Republican John Blake Rice won reelection, defeating Democrat Francis Cornwall Sherman by a nearly twenty-point margin.
The election was held on April 16.[1] It was ultimately a rematch of the previous election. This was Chicago's first mayoral election held after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
This was the final election before a law that would move mayoral elections from April to November.