Editing Carter Harrison III (section)

==Electoral history==
===Mayoral elections===
;[[1879 Chicago mayoral election|1879]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" 
! colspan="8" | '''1879 Democratic city convention mayoral nominating convention balloting<ref name="LocalMarch16">{{cite web |title=Local Politics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/349287867 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |publisher=Chicago Tribune |access-date=18 November 2024 |language=en |date=March 16, 1879}}</ref><br>(simple-majority needed for nomination)'''
|-
!Candidate||Informal ballot||Formal ballot||Unanimous vote
|-
| '''Carter Harrison'''
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|'''38'''
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|'''51'''
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|'''68'''
|-
|[[Murray F. Tuley]]
| 16
| 17
| 0
|-
|[[George L. Dunlap]]
| 14
| 0
| 0
|-
! Total !! 68 !! 68 !! 68
|}

{{Election box begin no change| title='''1879 Chicago mayoral election'''<ref name="1912almanac">{{cite book |title=The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1912 |date=1911 |publisher=Chicago Daily News, Incorporated |page=464 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ERgfAQAAMAAJ |access-date=12 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>History of Chicago, Illinois: Pre-historic agencies ; Rise and fall of French dominion ; First permanent settlement ; The massacre ; Rudimentary by John Moses, Munsell & Company, 1895</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Carter Harrison
|votes = 25,685
|percentage = 44.28}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = [[Abner Wright]]
|votes = 20,496
|percentage = 35.33}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Socialist Labor Party of America
|candidate = [[Ernst Schmidt (politician)|Ernst Schmidt]]
|votes = 11,829 
|percentage = 20.39}}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 58,010
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

;[[1881 Chicago mayoral election|1881]]
{{Election box begin no change| title='''1881 Chicago mayoral election'''<ref name="1912almanac"/>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Carter Harrison (incumbent)
|votes = 35,668
|percentage = 55.22		
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = [[John M. Clark (Chicago alderman)|John M. Clark]]
|votes =  27,925
|percentage = 43.23}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Independent politician
|candidate = Timothy O'Mara
|votes =  764
|percentage = 1.18}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Socialist Labor Party of America
|candidate = George Schilling
|votes =  240
|percentage = 0.37}}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 64,597
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

;[[1883 Chicago mayoral election|1883]]
{{Election box begin no change| title='''1883 Chicago mayoral election'''<ref name="1912almanac"/>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Carter H. Harrison III (incumbent)
|votes = 41,226
|percentage = 57.11
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = [[Eugene Cary]]
|votes =  30,963
|percentage = 42.89}}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 72,189
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

;[[1885 Chicago mayoral election|1885]]
{{Election box begin no change| title='''1885 Chicago mayoral election'''<ref name="1912almanac"/>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Carter Harrison (incumbent)
|votes = 43,352
|percentage = 50.09		
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = [[Sidney Smith (Illinois judge)|Sidney Smith]]
|votes =  42,977
|percentage = 49.66}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Prohibition Party
|candidate = William Bush
|votes = 221
|percentage = 0.26}}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 86,550
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}


;[[1891 Chicago mayoral election|1891]]

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" 
! colspan="8" | '''1891 Democratic city convention mayoral nominating convention balloting<ref name=sullivan>{{cite book |last1=Morton |first1=Richard Allen |title=Roger C. Sullivan and the Making of the Chicago Democratic Machine, 1881-1908 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xA7MDAAAQBAJ |publisher=McFarland |access-date=11 May 2020 |pages=39–46 |language=en |date=29 June 2016|isbn=9781476663777 }}</ref><br>(simple-majority needed for nomination)'''
|-
!Candidate
!Formal ballot votes
|-
|'''[[DeWitt Clinton Cregier]] (incumbent)'''
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|'''331'''
|-
| Carter Harrison
|51 
|-
! Total !! 383
|}

{{Election box begin no change| title='''1891 Chicago mayoral election'''<ref name="1912almanac"/>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = '''[[Hempstead Washburne]]'''
|votes = '''46,957'''
|percentage = '''28.84'''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = [[DeWitt Clinton Cregier]] (incumbent)
|votes = 46,558 
|percentage =28.59}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Independent Democrat
|candidate = Carter Harrison
|votes = 42,931 
|percentage = 26.36}}
{{Election box candidate no change
|party = Citizens
|candidate = [[Elmer Washburn]]
|votes = 24,027
|percentage = 14.75
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Socialist Labor Party of America
|candidate = [[Thomas J. Morgan]]
|votes = 2,376
|percentage = 1.46}}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 162,849
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

;[[1891 Chicago mayoral election|1893]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" 
! colspan="8" | '''1891 Democratic city convention mayoral nominating convention balloting<ref name=sullivan/><br>(simple-majority needed for nomination)'''
|-
!Candidate
!Formal ballot votes
|-
|'''Carter Harrison'''
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|'''531'''
|-
|[[DeWitt Clinton Cregier]] 
|93 
|-
| [[Washington Hesing]] 
|57 
|-
! Total !! 681
|}

{{Election box begin no change| title='''1893 Chicago mayoral election'''<ref name="1912almanac"/>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Carter Harrison
|votes =114,237
|percentage =54.03
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Samuel W. Allerton
|votes = 93,148
|percentage = 44.06}}
{{Election box candidate no change
|party = United Citizens
|candidate = [[DeWitt Clinton Cregier]]
|votes = 3,033
|percentage = 1.44}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Socialist Labor Party of America
|candidate = Henry Ehrenpreis
|votes = 1,000
|percentage = 0.47}}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 211,418
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

===U.S. House elections===
;[[1872 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois|1872]]
{{Election box begin no change| title='''1872 U.S. House election in Illinois's 2nd congressional district'''<ref name="Glorious1"/><ref name="secondcongressionalitspoliticalstatus"/>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = [[Jasper D. Ward]]
|votes = 12182
|percentage = 57.86 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Carter Harrison
|votes = 8873
|percentage =42.14 }}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 21055
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

;[[1874 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois|1874]]
{{Election box begin no change| title='''1874 U.S. House election in Illinois's 2nd congressional district'''<ref name="secondcongressionalitspoliticalstatus">{{cite web |title=Second Congressional. It's Political Status |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/349573740 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |publisher=Chicago Tribune |access-date=4 February 2025 |language=en |date=August 5, 1876}}</ref><ref name="CountingTheVote">{{cite web |title=Counting the Vote |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/35058558 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |publisher=The Daily Inter-Ocean |access-date=4 February 2025 |language=en |date=November 11, 1874}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Carter Harrison
|votes = 9189
|percentage =50.02 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = [[Jasper D. Ward]] (incumbent)
|votes = 9181
|percentage =49.98 }}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 18370
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

;[[1876 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois|1876]]
{{Election box begin no change| title='''1876 U.S. House election in Illinois's 2nd congressional district'''<ref name="1876result">{{cite web |title=Illinois |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/32559855 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |publisher=The Daily Inter-Ocean |access-date=4 February 2025 |language=en |date=November 29, 1876}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Carter Harrison (incumbent)
|votes = 14732
|percentage =50.89 }}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = [[George R. Davis (Illinois politician)|George R. Davis]]
|votes = 14099
|percentage =48.73 }}
{{Election box candidate no change
|party =
|candidate = S. F. Norton
|votes = 118
|percentage = 0.41 }}
{{Election box total no change
|votes      = 28949
  |percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}

;[[1878 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois|1878]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" 
! colspan="8" | '''1878 Democratic nominating convention for Illinois's 2nd congressional district<br>(simple-majority needed for nomination)<ref name="MilesKehoeGetsIt">{{cite web |title=Local Politics Miles Kehoe Gets It |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/370448023 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |publisher=The Chicago Tribune |access-date=4 February 2025 |language=en |date=September 26, 1878}}</ref>'''
|-
!Candidate||Informal ballot||Formal ballot||Unanimous vote
|-
! [[Miles Kehoe]]
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|'''45'''
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|'''44'''
|style="background:#5cb3ff"|'''78'''
|-
! Carter Harrison III (incumbent)
| 33
| 34
| 0
|-
! Total !! 78 !! 78 !! 78
|}