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The following candidates advanced to the runoff election held on April 4 Candidate Experience Announced Ref; Brandon Johnson: Cook County commissioner from the 1st district since 2018: October 27, 2022 [7] [8] Paul Vallas: Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools (1995–2001) Candidate for mayor in 2019 Democratic nominee for ...
He defeats Paul Vallas in runoff between two Democrats
Everything changed last month with Brandon Johnson’s second-place finish in the first round of voting in Chicago’s mayoral race. National attention turned to the shores of Lake Michigan.
Chicago voters on Tuesday elected far-left activist and teacher’s union lobbyist Brandon Johnson to be the next mayor of the nation’s third largest city.
In time for the 1911 election the Illinois legislature passed a law which scheduled Chicago mayoral party primaries for the last Tuesday of February. [6] On June 26, 1913, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi River to grant women's suffrage. [7] 1915 was the first Chicago mayoral election to be held following this change. [8]
Brandon Johnson (born March 27, 1976) [1] [2] is an American politician and educator who is currently serving as the 57th mayor of Chicago since 2023. [3] [4] [5] A member of the Democratic Party, Johnson previously served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 2018 to 2023, representing the 1st district.
News reports suggested the following prospective candidates, who all eventually declined to run: La Shawn Ford (member of Illinois House of Representatives), [17] Stacy Davis Gates, [18] and Melissa Conyears-Ervin. [19] In the first round, Vallas and Johnson won 32.9% and 21.6% of the vote respectively and advanced to the run-off election. [20]
Several candidates for Chicago mayor will have to defend the validity of their petitions to appear on the ballot as the race for City Hall’s top job intensifies. In all, 11 candidates filed to ...