title: 1929 New York City mayoral election
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  The 1929 New York City mayoral election was held on November 5 in concert with other municipal elections. 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. 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.
  
  ## Republican primary
  
  ### Candidates
  
  * Fiorello LaGuardia, U.S. Representative from East Harlem
  * William M. Bennett, former State Senator from Manhattan and perennial candidate
  
  La Guardia gave his acceptance speech at the Mecca Temple.
  
  ### Results
  
  1929 Republican mayoral primary :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Republican | Fiorello LaGuardia | 62,894 | 78.62% |
  | | Republican | William M. Bennett | 17,100 | 21.38% |
  | Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 79,994 | 100.00% |
  
  ## 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, 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. Thomas's results were the highest recorded by the Socialist party to that date.
  
  1929 mayoral election :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Democratic | Jimmy Walker (inc.) | 867,522 | 60.70% |
  | | Republican | Fiorello LaGuardia | 367,675 | 25.73% |
  | | Socialist | Norman Thomas | 175,697 | 12.29% |
  | | Socialist Labor | Olive M. Johnson | 6,401 | 0.45% |
  | | Communist | William Weinstone | 5,805 | 0.41% |
  | | Square Deal | Richard Enright | 5,695 | 0.40% |
  | | Commonwealth Land | Lawrence W. Tracy | 320 | 0.02% |
  | Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,429,115 | 100.00% |
  
  ## Aftermath
  
  Despite his success, Walker would be embroiled in scandal in 1932 and forced to resign.
  
  ## Endorsements
  
  ### Newspapers
  
  * The Nation, weekly magazine
  