1999 Chicago mayoral election

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Turnout

41.9%

0.35 pp


Candidate	Richard M. Daley	Bobby Rush
Popular vote	429,746	167,845
Percentage	71.91%	28.09%

Results by ward

Mayor before election

Richard M. Daley

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The Chicago mayoral election of 1999, which took place on February 23, 1999, resulted in the re-election of incumbent Richard M. Daley over Bobby Rush, with 428,872 votes to Rush's 167,709. Daley garnered a landslide 71.9% of the total vote, winning by a 44-point margin. This was the first officially nonpartisan Chicago mayoral election, per a 1995 Illinois law.

As was the case in all of his reelection campaigns, Daley did not attend any debates.

Joe Banks Jr. was denied inclusion on the ballot due to issues regarding the filing of his nomination papers.

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Results

**Mayor of Chicago** 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Richard M. Daley (incumbent)	429,746	71.91
	Nonpartisan	Bobby L. Rush	167,845	28.09
Turnout			597,591

Daley won a majority of the vote in 33 of the city's 50 wards. Rush won a majority of the vote in the remaining 17 wards.

Results by ward

Ward	Richard M. Daley		Bobby L. Rush		Total
Ward	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes
1	6,622	81.7%	1,482	18.3%	8,104
2	5,856	51.1%	5,595	48.9%	11,451
3	3,186	36.8%	5,480	63.2%	8,666
4	5,527	45.0%	6,754	55.0%	12,281
5	5,737	46.6%	6,580	53.4%	12,317
6	6,530	41.1%	9,372	58.9%	15,902
7	5,280	43.6%	6,840	56.4%	12,120
8	7,706	44.2%	9,728	55.8%	17,434
9	4,925	38.5%	7,869	61.5%	12,794
10	11,969	87.8%	1,664	12.2%	13,633
11	14,502	96.1%	582	3.9%	15,084
12	4,639	91.7%	420	8.3%	5,059
13	19,512	96.8%	642	3.2%	20,154
14	9,789	94.7%	552	5.3%	10,341
15	4,464	44.0%	5,671	56.0%	10,135
16	3,123	43.0%	4,132	57.0%	7,255
17	4,547	41.2%	6,480	58.8%	11,027
18	9,505	55.1%	7,731	44.9%	17,236
19	18,322	87.0%	2,744	13.0%	21,066
20	3,910	38.8%	6,157	61.2%	10,067
21	6,712	40.0%	10,088	60.0%	16,800
22	4,851	74.6%	1,650	25.4%	6,501
23	18,123	96.0%	752	4.0%	18,875
24	3,956	41.7%	5,539	58.3%	9,495
25	5,978	88.4%	788	11.6%	6,766
26	6,744	84.8%	1,212	15.2%	7,956
27	6,301	57.5%	4,659	42.5%	10,960
28	3,464	37.9%	5,678	62.1%	9,142
29	5,870	48.6%	6,213	51.4%	12,083
30	9,071	94.2%	557	5.8%	9,628
31	7,617	91.6%	696	8.4%	8,313
32	11,411	90.6%	1,178	9.4%	12,589
33	8,958	93.0%	676	7.0%	9,634
34	6,430	43.5%	8,365	56.5%	14,795
35	7,149	86.1%	1,157	13.9%	8,306
36	14,333	93.4%	1,016	6.6%	15,349
37	4,567	44.0%	5,813	56.0%	10,380
38	13,550	96.2%	532	3.8%	14,082
39	11,407	93.9%	744	6.1%	12,151
40	8,169	89.7%	940	10.3%	9,109
41	18,091	95.3%	892	4.7%	18,983
42	13,578	90.5%	1,421	9.5%	14,999
43	9,841	91.1%	962	8.9%	10,803
44	9,992	91.4%	939	8.6%	10,931
45	15,766	96.1%	645	3.9%	16,411
46	9,381	78.6%	2,550	21.4%	11,931
47	9,581	90.5%	1,007	9.5%	10,588
48	8,254	81.4%	1,887	18.6%	10,141
49	4,980	71.6%	1,974	28.4%	6,954
50	9,096	92.8%	704	7.2%	9,800
Total	428,872	71.9%	167,709	28.1%	596,581

References

Denvir, Daniel (May 22, 2015). "Voter Turnout in U.S. Mayoral Elections Is Pathetic, But It Wasn't Always This Way". Bloomberg. City Lab (The Atlantic). Retrieved December 11, 2018.
^ "Election Results for 1999 General Election, Mayor, Chicago, Illinois". Chicago Democracy. Archived from the original on July 2, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2024.
Chicago's Long-Running Daley Show Ken Rudin February 21, 2007
"Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago as the duly constituted Electoral Board for the hearing and passing upon objections to nomination papers of candidates for the February 23, 1999 Municipal General Election for Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer and Alderman in the City of Chicago, Case No: 99-EB-MUN-002" (PDF). Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. January 8, 1999.
"Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago as the duly constituted Electoral Board for the hearing and passing upon objections to nomination papers of candidates for the February 23, 1999 Municipal General Election for Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer and Alderman in the City of Chicago, Case No: 99-EB-MUN-005" (PDF). Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. January 8, 1999.
"Board of Election Commissioners For the City of Chicago Mayoral Election Results Since 1900 General Elections Only". Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. July 18, 2004. Archived from the original on July 18, 2004. Retrieved March 26, 2023.

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