The Archive · 1929

JIMMY WALKER NEW YORK''S MAYOR

Popular Figure Heads Poll in Municipal Elections NOM. sneetaL seRvICe New York, Nov. 5.

Re-election -of Mayor James J. Walker by a 600,000 plurality. conceded this evening by the New York "Herald-Tribune," chief supporter of Representative Fiorello La Guardia, Mr. La Guardia imsclf also coa-ceded. the election, 'AL 8.30 o'clock this evening, 2,600 tricts out of a total of 2,400 gave Mayor Walker G70,182_votes and Mr. La Guardia 275,537.

Mr. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor and former candidate for President, received 117,000 in the foregoing: tabulation, At midnight, lacking less than 200 districts, Mayor Walker's plurality. was 476,000.

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