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How Chicago Wards Voted in the 2015 Mayoral Election (MAP)

By Tanveer Ali | February 25, 2015 10:11am | Updated on February 25, 2015 10:27am
 Here's a look at how voters across the city cast their ballots Tuesday, ultimately sending the mayor's race into a runoff between Rahm Emanuel and Chuy Garcia.
Here's a look at how voters across the city cast their ballots Tuesday, ultimately sending the mayor's race into a runoff between Rahm Emanuel and Chuy Garcia.
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CHICAGO — Here's a look at how voters across the city cast their ballots Tuesday, ultimately sending the mayor's race into a runoff between Rahm Emanuel and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.

Some highlights:

• Emanuel's biggest support came from Downtown neighborhoods and those just north of Downtown.

Turnout was relatively low at 27 percent in Downtown's 42nd Ward, because Ald. Brendan Reilly was unopposed in his race. Of Tuesday's voters in the ward, 73 percent voted to re-elect the mayor.

The mayor also did well in Lincoln Park's 43rd Ward and the serpentine 2nd Ward, which includes parts of Streeterville, Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, Old Town, Bucktown, Ukrainian Village and the Gold Coast.

While the races for alderman are both headed for runoffs in those wards, the mayor got 73 percent and 65 percent of the vote, respectively, in those wards.

• Emanuel's performance was notably poor — and Garcia's was exceptional — in two largely Hispanic West Side wards: the 12th and 22nd.

Garcia won 71 percent of the vote in the 22nd Ward, which covers his home turf of Little Village. Just to the east in the 12th Ward — covering McKinley Park and Brighton Park — Garcia got 67 percent of the vote.

• Willie Wilson, who came in third in Tuesday's mayoral election, did well in wards on the South and West sides with large black populations. He got 30 percent of the vote in the North Lawndale-based 24th Ward and 28 percent in the Austin-based 37th Ward.

• About 33 percent of the city's registered voters filled out a ballot for Tuesday's election, according to the city's Board of Election Commissioners.

The highest turnout was in the 19th Ward, where Ald. Matt O'Shea defended his Beverly and Mount Greenwood-based seat with ease. In the mayor's race, Emanuel led the ward by garnering 42 percent of the mayoral vote there, and Garcia was second at 36 percent.

The lowest turnout was in the 16th Ward, an Englewood-based ward where the incumbent alderman Joann Thompson died shortly before the election. While the aldermanic race is headed toward a runoff there, 39 percent of the votes for mayor went to Emanuel there. Willie Wilson took 27 percent of the ward's mayoral vote, while Garcia had 26 percent.

 

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