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Originally Posted by UPChicago
Brandon Johnson will probably be the next mayor.
He ran second or third (behind Wilson) in the majority of precincts Lightfoot won. He ran second in a lot of the SW precincts Chuy carried. Vallas's turnout was extremely poor in black precincts (especially on the west side), and Johnson was the second vote-getter in many of the precincts he narrowly won.
Johnson will consolidate the black vote and turn out voters on the lakefront, just like Lightfoot did four years ago but to a lesser extent.
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The results are not very surprising.