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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.
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 ]
By April 2019, more than 20 major candidates were recognized by national and state polls, causing the field of 2020 major Democratic presidential candidates to exceed the field of major candidates in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries as the largest presidential candidate field for any single U.S. political party in a single ...
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. Since 1992, Illinois has consistently backed Democratic candidates.
Illinois voters cast their ballots for president Tuesday, a week after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump secured enough delegate support to become their parties’ presumptive ...
The Illinois presidential and state primaries will be held Tuesday. ... Turnout in 2022 was about 10% of registered voters for Democratic primaries and between 8% and 9% for Republican primaries ...
In the wake of Biden’s withdrawal, other Illinois Democrats praised the president's achievements since he was elected in 2020 and emphasized the need for party unity.
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]