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Historically, Illinois was a critical swing state leaning marginally towards the Republican Party. [3] Between its admission into the Union and 1996, it voted for the losing candidate just six times - in 1824, 1840, 1848, 1884, 1916, and 1976.
The 2024 United States state legislative elections were held on November 5, 2024, for 85 state legislative chambers in 44 states. Across the fifty states , approximately 65 percent of all upper house seats and 85 percent of all lower house seats were up for election.
It is one of the most Democratic states in the nation with all state executive offices and both state legislative branches held by Democrats. [1] [2] For most of its history, Illinois was widely considered to be a swing state, voting for the winner of all but two presidential elections in the 20th century.
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
[1] [2] By contrast, states where the predominant vote fluctuates between Democratic and Republican candidates are known as "swing states" or "purple states". Examining patterns within states reveals that the reversal of the two parties' geographic bases has happened at the state level, but it is more complicated locally, with urban-rural ...
The Cook Partisan Voting Index, abbreviated PVI or CPVI, is a measurement of how partisan a U.S. congressional district or U.S. state is. [1] This partisanship is indicated as lean towards either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party, [2] compared to the nation as a whole, based on how that district or state voted in the previous two presidential elections.
In 2018, gun control advocates Everytown posted on Twitter, now X, that "’Concealed Carry Reciprocity’ would force every state to accept other states' concealed carry standards, even states ...
In the last 80 years, the policy and partisan chasm between liberal and conservative states has grown wider than ever, according to Christopher Warshaw, co-author of a study that is part of a new ...