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| election_name = Chicago mayoral election, 1979 | country = Chicago | type = presidential | ongoing = no | previous_year = 1977 (special) | next_year = 1983 | election_date = April 3, 1979 | turnout = 61%[1] {{increase}} 21 pp | image1 = | nominee1 = Jane Byrne | party1 = Democratic Party (United States) | running_mate1 = | colour1 = | popular_vote1 = 700,874 | percentage1 = 82.1% | image2 = | nominee2 = Wallace D. Johnson | party2 = Republican Party (United States) | colour2 = | running_mate2 = | popular_vote2 = 137,664 | percentage2 = 16.1% | map_image = | map_size = | map_caption = | title = Mayor | before_election = Michael A. Bilandic | before_party = Democratic Party (United States) | after_election = Jane Byrne | after_party = Democratic Party (United States) }}{{ElectionsIL}} In the Chicago mayoral election of 1979 Democrat Jane Byrne defeated Republican Wallace Johnson by a landslide 66% margin of victory, winning more than 82% of the vote and becoming Chicago's first female mayor.[2] Primaries and nominationsDemocratic primaryIn what was regarded to be a major upset to the Chicago Democratic political machine, Jane Byrne succeeded in pulling off an insurgent challenge to incumbent mayor Michael Bilandic.[3] Byrne, whom Bilandic had previously fired from the post of the city's Commissioner of Consumer Sales in 1977,[3][4] had launched an underdog challenge to Bilandic, who had received the backing of the Cook County Democratic Party.[3] Turnout in the primary was among the greatest in Chicago mayoral history.[3] By some reports, turnout was 839,443, which was 58.97% of Chicago's 1,423,476 voters.[3] Turnout exceeded the average mayoral primary election turnout in the years since 1955 by more than 10 percentage points.[3] Byrne won more than half of the city's wards.[3] She swept the city's black wards, winning more than 2/3 of votes from them.[3] Byrne had lambasted Bilandic's government's slow response to the 1979 Chicago blizzard, criticism which was greatly credited with fueling her upset victory.[5][6] {{electiontable|Chicago Democratic Party Mayoral primary, 1979}}|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center" | Chicago Democratic Party Mayoral Primary, 1979[7][8] |- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center" | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- |- | bgcolor="#3333FF" | | align="left" | Jane Byrne | {{formatnum:412909}} | {{formatnum:51.04%}} | N/A |- | bgcolor="#3333FF" | | align="left" | Michael A. Bilandic (incumbent) | {{formatnum:396194}} | {{formatnum:48.96%}} | -2.14% |- | colspan="2" align="left" | Majority | {{formatnum:16775}} | {{formatnum:2.07%}} | +16.33% |- | colspan="2" align="left" | Total | {{formatnum:809043}} || {{formatnum:100.00%}} | N/A |- |} Republican primaryWallace D. Johnson, an investment banker,[3] won a landslide victory in the Republican primary. {{electiontable|Chicago Republican Party Mayoral primary, 1979}}|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center" | Chicago Republican Party Mayoral Primary, 1979[9] |- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center" | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- |- | bgcolor="#FF3333" | | align="left" | Wallace D. Johnson | {{formatnum:18268}} | {{formatnum:86.39%}} | N/A |- | bgcolor="#FF3333" | | align="left" | Raymond G. Wardingley | {{formatnum:2877}} | {{formatnum:13.61%}} | N/A |- | colspan="2" align="left" | Majority | {{formatnum:15391}} | {{formatnum:72.79%}} | N/A |- | colspan="2" align="left" | Total | {{formatnum:21144}} || {{formatnum:100.00%}} | N/A |- |} Socialist Workers nominationThe Socialist Workers Party nominated Andrew Pulley. Pulley had been the party's vice presidential nominee in 1972.[10] General election{{Election box begin no change| title=Mayor of Chicago 1979[11] (General Election)}}{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Jane Byrne |votes = 700,874 |percentage = 82.05 }}{{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Wallace D. Johnson |votes = 137,663 |percentage = 16.12 }}{{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Socialist Workers Party (United States) |candidate = Andrew Pulley |votes = 15,625 |percentage = 1.83 }}{{Election box turnout no change |votes = 854,162 |percentage = }}{{Election box end}} References1. ^{{cite web |last1=Denvir |first1=Daniel |title=Voter Turnout in U.S. Mayoral Elections Is Pathetic, But It Wasn't Always This Way |url=https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/05/mayoral-election-voting-turnout/393737/ |publisher=City Lab (The Atlantic) |accessdate=11 December 2018 |date=May 22, 2015}} {{Illinois elections}}{{Illinois-election-stub}}2. ^http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=123285 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite news |last1=Kneeland |first1=Douglas A. |title=Jane Byrne's Defeat of Mayor Shatters Image of Democratic Machine in Chicago |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/01/archives/jane-byrnes-defeat-of-mayor-shatters-image-of-democratic-machine-in.html |publisher=New York Times |date=March 1, 1979}} 4. ^https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19771219&id=P5AzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HeEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=923,6168601 5. ^https://interactive.wttw.com/remembering-chicago/mayor-jane-byrne-1979-1983 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zAM1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=A08KAAAAIBAJ&dq=bilandic%20blizzard&pg=6311%2C1192586|work=Bangor Daily News|date=April 4, 1979|title=Chicago elects Byrne|accessdate=June 17, 2012|location=Bangor, Me.|page=1|via=Google News Archive}} 7. ^http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=8134 8. ^http://chicagodemocracy.org/ElectionResults.jsp?election=crdd_primary%2Ccrdd_1979_primary_election%2Cil_chi_mayor 9. ^http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=388002 10. ^{{vcite news |author=Martin Waldron |title=The Socialist Campaign: Low Funds, High Hopes |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CckMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zGADAAAAIBAJ&pg=7244,663217 |work=St. Petersburg Times |date= January 2, 1972 |pages=9-A }} 11. ^{{cite web| url=http://chicagodemocracy.org/ElectionResults.jsp?election=crdd_general%2Ccrdd_1979_general_election%2Cil_chi_mayor | title=Election Results for 1979 General Election, Mayor, Chicago, IL}} 5 : Mayoral elections in Chicago|1979 United States mayoral elections|1979 Illinois elections|20th century in Chicago|1970s in Chicago
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