1895 Chicago mayoral election

In the Chicago mayoral election of 1895, was held on Tuesday April 2 Republican nominee George Bell Swift (former acting mayor) was elected, winning a majority of the vote and defeating Democratic nominee Frank Wenter (president of the Chicago Sanitary District board) by more than a fifteen-point margin (55.09% to 39.48%). The Populist Party (a briefly-lived major national third party) nominated physician Bayard Holmes, who received 4.93% of the vote.

Incumbent mayor Hopkins, a Democrat who had defeated Hopkins in the 1893 special election, did not seek reelection. Hopkins had been implicated in the Ogden Gas scandal (a political scandal). The Democratic Party was facing a nationwide decline in support due to public sentiment faulting President Grover Cleveland for the Panic of 1893, as well as local backlash over President Cleveland's intervention in the Pullman Strike in Chicago. In addition to Wenter, Washington Hesing (Chicago Postmaster) also initially sought the nomination of the Democratic Party. However, by the time of the party's nominating convention, Wenter had secured enough support to drive Hesing out of the race.