1867 Chicago mayoral election

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1867, incumbent Republican John Blake Rice won reelection, defeating Democrat Francis Cornwall Sherman by a nearly twenty-point margin.

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1867 Chicago mayoral election

← 1865 April 16, 1867 1869 â†’

Nominee John Blake Rice Francis Cornwall Sherman Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 11,904 7,971 Percentage 59.89% 40.11%

Mayor before election John Blake Rice Republican Elected mayor John Blake Rice Republican

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The election was held on April 16.^[1] It was ultimately a rematch of the previous election. This was Chicago's first mayoral election held after the conclusion of the American Civil War.

This was the final election before a law that would move mayoral elections from April to November.