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The Chicago mayoral election of 1883 was held on Tuesday April 3, saw incumbent Carter Harrison Sr. defeat Republican Eugene Cary by a double-digit margin.[1][2]
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By winning the 1883 election, Harrison became the second mayor in Chicago history to be elected to a third term (after only Francis Cornwall Sherman), and the first to be elected to a third consecutive term.
By the day of the election, Harrison was already the second-longest serving mayor in the city's history, and was only roughly a month shy of surpassing Monroe Heath as the longest serving mayor.
Harrison's 15% margin of victory was the greatest in all of his campaigns for mayor.[3]
Harrison's opponent, Eugene Cary, was a member of the Chicago Common Council that had previously been county judge and city attorney in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and had also served as a member of the Tennessee Senate.[4]
A key issue of the election was the "high licenses" for liquor sales in the city.[5] Cary favored the high license.[6]
During the campaign, many reformers, newspapers, and business interests coalesced their support behind a Citizen's Ticket that supported Republican nominee Eugene Cary for mayor.[7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Carter H. Harrison, Sr. (incumbent) | 41,226 | 57.11 | |
Republican | Eugene Cary | 30,963 | 42.89 | |
Turnout | 72,189 |
64% of the city's German population voted for Harrison.[5]
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