Chicago Mayoral Election, 2011
The city of Chicago, Illinois held a nonpartisan mayoral election on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Incumbent Mayor Richard Michael Daley, a member of the Democratic Party who had been in office since 1989, did not seek a seventh term as mayor. This was the first election since 1947 in which an incumbent mayor of Chicago did not seek reelection. Candidates needed to collect 12,500 petition signatures by November 22, 2010 to qualify for a place on the ballot. April 5, 2011 was scheduled to be a runoff election date if no candidate received an absolute majority. Rahm Emanuel won the race for mayor with more than 55% of the vote. He was inaugurated on May 16, 2011. The election saw what was, at the time, the most candidates running on the ballot of any Chicago mayoral election since 1919. This would be surpassed by the 2019 Chicago mayoral election. Candidates Nominating petitions were filed for 20 candidates in November 2010. In the initial review of the petitions by the Chica ...
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Mayoral Elections In Chicago
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