1929_New_York_City_mayoral_election

1929 New York City mayoral election

1929 New York City mayoral election

American election

The 1929 New York City mayoral election was held on November 5 in concert with other municipal elections.[1] Democratic incumbent Jimmy Walker defeated Republican challenger Fiorello H. La Guardia in what was considered "a Crushing Defeat to [the] City G.O.P. [delivered]" by Tammany Hall.[2] Socialist candidate Norman Thomas also ran, as did Socialist Labor candidate Olive M. Johnson and former Police Commissioner Richard Edward Enright for the Square Deal Party.

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Republican primary

Candidates

La Guardia gave his acceptance speech at the Mecca Temple.[3]

Results

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General election

Results

Walker won with a plurality of 497,165 votes, which had been the largest ever recorded for a mayoral candidate up to that time,[2] and won the absolute majority of votes in all five boroughs. The results were part of a larger Democratic landslide in which Democrats won the position of President of the Board of Aldermen, Comptroller, all positions in Brooklyn, and all Borough Presidencies except Queens, and gained 2 seats in the Assembly and 3 in the Board of Aldermen from Republicans.[2] Thomas's results were the highest recorded by the Socialist party to that date.[2]

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Aftermath

Despite his success, Walker would be embroiled in scandal in 1932 and forced to resign.[6]

Endorsements

Thomas Endorsements
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Organizations

References

  1. [1]
    McGoldrick, Joseph (1930). "The New York City Election of 1929". American Political Science Review. 24 (3): 688–690. doi:10.2307/1946937. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1946937. S2CID 146912519.
  2. [2]
    "497,165 plurality hailed by Walker as a vindication". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 89, no. 308. November 6, 1929. p. 1. Retrieved January 24, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. [3]
    Mann, Arthur (1965). La Guardia Comes To Power 1933. J. B. Lippincott & Co.
  4. [4]
    "Our Campaigns - NYC Mayor - R Primary Race - Sep 17, 1929".
  5. [5]
    "Our Campaigns - New York City Mayor Race - Nov 05, 1929".
  6. [6]
    Emery, Frank (September 2, 1932). "Rose to Power On Chessboard of Tiger Chiefs". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Vol. 91, no. 244. p. 6. Retrieved January 24, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. [7]
    Soyer 2021, p. 19-20.

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