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Illinois residents head to the polls Tuesday to decide local and national races, which range from US president to state ballot initiatives. Live updates, results: Illinois voters heading to polls ...
The state has voted for the Democratic candidate in every presidential election beginning in 1992 (doing so by at least 10% each time), including voting for Senator Barack Obama from Illinois in 2008 and 2012 and Chicago-born Hillary Clinton in 2016. This was the first election since 1868 in which Illinois did not have 20 or more electoral votes.
In Illinois, Evanston passed a referendum in 2022 to implement ranked-choice voting in local elections, but the Cook County Clerk's office said that such an implementation in 2025 would be illegal ...
Illinois held its primary elections as scheduled, despite concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [6] Election officials in Illinois acknowledged that they believed turnout was unusually low. [6] In the state-run primaries (Democratic and Republican), turnout was 28.36%, with 2,279,439 votes cast. [7]
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Illinois, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1818, Illinois has participated in every U.S. presidential election. From 1896 to 1996, Illinois was a bellwether state, voting for the winner of the presidential election 24 of 26 times, the exceptions being 1916 and 1976.
Illinois 2024 election results: Ballot question on reproductive care coverage. Gannett. JJ Bullock, Peoria Journal Star. November 5, 2024 at 8:08 PM.
In Illinois, ballot initiatives can be included on the ballot. In Illinois, in order to be included on the ballot, an initiative must receive signatures of support equal in number to 8% of the turnout for the previous gubernatorial election. For the 2022 election, this meant that ballot initiatives required 363,813 signatures. [16]
The Illinois Policy Institute said such an idea is bad for business. "This could create the highest tax on businesses in the country and further damage the state economy," the group said in a ...