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The 2019 Chicago elections took place in two rounds on February 26, 2019, and April 2, 2019. Elections were held for Mayor of Chicago, City Clerk of Chicago, City Treasurer of Chicago, and all 50 members of the Chicago City Council. The candidates who won in these elections were inaugurated on May 20, 2019. [5] Four ballot referendums were also ...
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 ...
Illinois held its primary elections as scheduled, despite concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [8] Election officials in Illinois acknowledged that they believed turnout was unusually low. [8] In the state-run primaries (Democratic and Republican), turnout was 28.36%, with 2,279,439 votes cast. [9]
The 2019 United States elections were held, in large part, on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. This off-year election included gubernatorial elections in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi; regularly-scheduled state legislative elections in Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, and New Jersey; and special elections for seats in various state legislatures.
To encourage voting by mail, citizens who voted in the primary election, the 2019 local elections, or the 2018 general election were to be sent applications for mail-in ballots by August 1, 2020. The bill also made November 3 a state holiday for schools and government offices, to reduce the number of people present at voting sites.
The election also saw a record number of requests made for mail-in ballots, with both Chicago and the rest of Cook County seeing numbers of requests surpassing any previous election. [6] In Chicago there were 118,000 such requests, with over 80,000 mail-in ballots ultimately being returned and counted. [ 7 ]
February 26, 2019 Election day, first round. Polling places are open from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm. March 19 Last day for Board of Elections to announce results of first-round election. 10 ILCS 5/22-17 April 2 Election day, second round run-off (as needed in each ward). Polling places are open from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm.
The 2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary took place on March 17, 2020, the third primary Tuesday of the month, as one of three states voting on the same day in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election, while the contest in Ohio had been postponed for roughly a month.