Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will face off in the runoff Chicago mayor election in April. Lori Lightfoot conceded.
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will face off in the April mayoral runoff election after Lori Lightfoot called Johnson to concede Tuesday night.
"Obviously we didn't win the election today, but I stand here with my head held high and a heart full of gratitude," she said."I would like to thank you all, old friends and new, for joining this campaign," Vallas told his supporters at the Fulton Market event space City Hall. "It is because of you we are in the second round."
Officials said turnout on Election Day has been sluggish compared to 2019, with about 8,000 fewer votes each hour.With more than 100,000 vote-by-mail ballots that have not been returned, it could be a few days until the results of many races are known. He voted Tuesday morning at a Chicago Housing Authority apartment building on the West Side with his wife.
A confident Vallas assumed he will be in the April runoff based on polls showing him in the lead; Lightfoot tried to sell herself as the best candidate to beat him. "It's a multi-generational, multicultural movement, people understand the type of leadership I brought as a teacher, organizer, Cook County commissioner," he said."That's why getting the vote out is so important. The other factor is how the board processes the vote-by-mail ballots. It could be that if things are really tight, and the votes that were cast the last two days aren't counted, that it could be a long week," he said.
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