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词条 1979 Chicago mayoral election
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  1. Primaries and nominations

     Democratic primary  Republican primary  Socialist Workers nomination 

  2. General election

  3. References

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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 =
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| 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)
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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 nominations

Democratic primary

In 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]

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|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center"
Chicago Democratic Party Mayoral Primary, 1979[7][8]
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center"
CandidateVotes%+/-
|-
| 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 primary

Wallace D. Johnson, an investment banker,[3] won a landslide victory in the Republican primary.

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|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center"
Chicago Republican Party Mayoral Primary, 1979[9]
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center"
CandidateVotes%+/-
|-
| 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 nomination

The Socialist Workers Party nominated Andrew Pulley. Pulley had been the party's vice presidential nominee in 1972.[10]

General election

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|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}}

References

1. ^{{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}}
2. ^http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=123285
3. ^{{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}}
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