Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces eight challengers in the city’s elections on Tuesday, a tough reelection campaign for an incumbent who made history as the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve in the role.
Vallas, the only white candidate in the race, is positioning himself as a moderate, with backing from the Chicago police union. Garcia, the only Hispanic candidate, is focusing hard on Latino neighborhoods and Hispanic TV and radio. Johnson is an organizer for theNew poll shows who might win Chicago mayoral runoff: Vallas, Lightfoot, Garcia or Johnson?
AP will declare winners in the race for Chicago mayor. AP will also tabulate an additional 57 races, for Chicago alderperson and police council, but will not call winners in those races. In the 2022 general election, AP first reported results in Chicago at 7:35 p.m. CT. The election night tabulation ended just before 12 a.m. CT, with 88% of votes counted.Fox 32, The Lincoln Forum, and the Chicago Bar Association host a mayoral forum live from the Union League Club with all nine candidates.
The AP may call a race in which the margin between the top two candidates is 0.5% or less, if we determine the lead is too large for a recount and legal challenge to change the outcome. In Illinois, there are no automatic recounts. Trailing candidates can request recounts if they receive at least 95% of the total votes of the winning candidate.
In the 2022 primary election, 49% of Chicago voters cast their ballots before election day. Mail-in ballots can arrive as late as March 14 and be counted so long as they are postmarked by election day.
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