1845 Chicago mayoral election

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1845, Democratic candidate Augustus Garrett defeated Whig candidate John H. Kinzie and Liberty candidate Henry Smith by a 7.5% margin.

Garrett had previously served a term as mayor.

All candidates had previously run in Chicago mayoral elections, Garrett in 1842, 1843, and both 1844 elections; Smith in 1842, 1843 and both 1844 elections; Kinzie in 1837.

General election

**1845 Chicago mayoral election**[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Augustus Garrett	1,072	50.66
	Whig	John H. Kinzie	913	43.15
	Liberty	Henry Smith	131	6.19
Turnout			2,116

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gollark: My view is generally that quite a lot of political/economic problems are really hard to do anything about and cannot be trivially solved by doing something to some scapegoat.

gollark: Just saying "prevent corruption" isn't a very useful thing to say, I mean, since most people don't like it but can hardly do much about it.

gollark: That sounds more like a vague goal than something actionable.

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