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Voter turnout in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election by race/ethnicity. Race and ethnicity has had an effect on voter turnout in recent years, with data from recent elections such as 2008 showing much lower turnout among people identifying as Hispanic or Asian ethnicity than other voters (see chart to the right).
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]
For the primaries, turnout was 33.54%, with 1,037,951 ballots cast. The ballots cast comprised 957,791 Democratic, 79,669 Republican, and 491 nonpartisan primary ballots. Turnout in the city of Chicago was 37.78%, while turnout in suburban Cook County was 29.42%. [4] [5] Turnout in the primaries was considered to be low for a presidential ...
The turnout rate was an 18.20 percentage point decrease from the turnout in 2016 primaries. [5] However, the turnout was not extraordinarily low, as four out of the past ten Illinois primaries in presidential election years had seen turnout under 30%, with 2000 having seen an even lower primary election turnout than 2020. [6] [8]
Preliminary voter turnout in the county was 13.9% for Tuesday's election, which would be the lowest in county history dating back to 1998. ... Illinois voters have had their say in the 2024 ...
The last primary election in 2022 saw only a 21.7% turnout rate — the second lowest in the past 40 years according to state data. Primary turnout reached near record lows in Illinois two years ...
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.
Between the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections alone, the turnout gap grew by 5 percentage points between white voters and nonwhite voters, and it grew by 8 points between white voters and Black ...