Rahm Emanuel has been elected the new mayor of Chicago in a landslide victory.
The former White House Chief of Staff has nearly 55 percent of the vote with 88 percent of precincts reporting. Former Board of Education President Gery Chico is in second place with 24 percent, City Clerk Miguel del Valle has nine percent and long time civil rights advocate Carol Moseley Braun is in fourth with eight percent of the vote.
Longtime LGBT ally Richard Daley decided not to seek reelection in September.
Emanuel, a former congressman from Illinois, stepped down as White House chief of staff last year to prepare his run. He has been endorsed by Equality Illinois PAC and the Human Rights Campaign.
ChicagoPride.com reported Tuesday morning: “Emanuel, who received the endorsement of over 200 LGBT community leaders and advocates including openly gay state Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) and state Rep. Deborah Mell (D-Chicago), has approached 50 percent in opinion polls but his numbers have since dropped in recent polling.”
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