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The 2020 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on March 17, 2020, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Incumbent president Donald Trump won the primary with over 96 percent of the vote. [ 11 ]
Primary election voting occurred amid concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and election officials in Illinois acknowledged that they believed the turnout was unusually low. [3] The turnout rate was an 18.20 percentage point decrease from the turnout in 2016 primaries. [ 5 ]
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.
Longtime Rep. Danny Davis won the Democratic primary after a competitive five-way contest. Davis, who first took office in 1997, had faced questions about his fitness for office at age 82.
Today, voters will cast their ballots for national, statewide and local candidates running in the Illinois primary election.
Candidates started being placed on primary ballots the previous October, and by the end of December 2023, most of these had been finalized. Seven candidates, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Ryan Binkley, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson, appear on the ballot in most states. Delegates won by some who suspend, rather ...
Win Stoller, the incumbent representing Illinois' 37th State Senate District, declared victory in the Republican party's primary for that seat on Wednesday.
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.