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The 2022 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Illinois. Incumbent Democratic senator Tammy Duckworth was re-elected for a second term against former U.S. House of Representatives candidate Kathy Salvi, the Republican nominee, winning by a ...
The next election will be in 2028. # Senator Party Dates in office Electoral history T T Electoral history Dates in office Party Senator # 1 Jesse B. Thomas: Democratic-Republican: Dec 3, 1818 – Mar 3, 1829 Elected in 1818. 1 15th: 1 Elected in 1818. Dec 3, 1818 – Mar 3, 1824 Democratic-Republican: Ninian Edwards: 1 16th: 2 Re-elected in 1819.
U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb prosecuted voter fraud in the 1982 Illinois elections. In the 1982 Illinois elections, there were 62 indictments and 58 convictions for election fraud, many involving precinct captains and election officials. A grand jury concluded that 100,000 fraudulent votes had been cast in Chicago.
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [2] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California. A study published by the University ...
Frank L. Smith (R-Illinois), was refused seating in the United States Senate due to allegations of election fraud in the 1926 United States Senate election in Illinois. [9] [10] [11] William Scott Vare (R-Pennsylvania), a political boss better known as the "Duke of Philadelphia", won the 1926 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania.
The 2020 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Illinois, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various ...
A comprehensive election bill that gained final approval by the Democratic-led Illinois legislature on Thursday would give Democrats a significant advantage toward keeping their legislative ...
There have been a total of 252 senators appointed to the United States Senate since the 1913 ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, including 205 appointments made before the next scheduled or special election and 47 appointments made of senators-elect who have already been elected to the seat.