1893 Chicago mayoral election

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1893, Democrat Carter Harrison III won election, returning him the mayor's office for a (then-record) fifth non-consecutive term as mayor of Chicago. Harrison won a majority of the vote, defeating the Republican nominee, businessman Samuel W. Allerton, by a ten-point margin. He also defeated two third-party candidates: United Citizens nominee DeWitt Clinton Cregier (a previous Democrat mayor) and Socialist Labor Party nominee Henry Ehrenpreis, neither of whom received strong support.

Ahead of the general election, Harrison had faced opposition in his race to receive the Democratic Party's nomination. Both former mayor Cregier and Illinois Staats-Zeitung newspaper editor and former Cook County deputy sheriff Washington Hesing also sought the Democratic nomination at the party's convention.