When the law that made Chicago’s mayoral elections nonpartisan was passed, many of the city’s top Black political leaders feared it would all but guarantee Chicago’s mayors would be white.
And for many years that was the case — though it isn’t clear how much of an impact moving away from traditional partisan elections had on the end result. Mayor Richard M. Daley easily won reelection three times and Rahm Emanuel won in 2011 without needing a runoff.But that’s changed in recent elections, and this runoff features Johnson, who is Black, facing off against Vallas, who is white, in a race that is not expected to be a blowout for either.
When the switch was proposed and passed in 1995, Daley was mayor and was said to have been agnostic about making Chicago mayoral elections nonpartisan, which began in the next election in 1999. “Daley didn’t really care one way or the other,” Edgar told the Tribune. “It came from some Democrats. But I wanted to do it because I wanted to make the mayor’s race nonpartisan because we never could find a legitimate Republican candidate and we’d end up with Spanky the Clown. People would come up and say, ‘Why would you let this happen?’ I mean, there isn’t much of a Republican Party in Chicago. That’s just the fact. And nobody good really wants to run.
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