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Prior to the 2020 election, all news organizations predicted Illinois was a state that Biden would win, or otherwise considered a safe blue state. Biden carried Illinois, winning 57.54% of the vote to Trump's 40.55%, [3] winning by roughly the same 17-point margin by which Hillary Clinton carried the state in 2016.
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.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
Trump won 232 electoral votes in the 2020 Presidential Election. His opponent and current President Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes . Here's how the Electoral College voted by state:
On June 16, 2020, Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a bill aimed at making it safer to vote in the November election. To encourage voting by mail , citizens who voted in the primary election, the 2019 local elections, or the 2018 general election were to be sent applications for mail-in ballots by August 1, 2020.
Bailey won the primary by a large margin, receiving 57.7% of the vote and winning all but two counties. [ 38 ] Before a campaign appearance on July 4, 2022, in the wake of the Highland Park Parade Shooting , Bailey stated on a livestream "The shooter is still at large, so let's pray for justice to prevail, and then let's move on and let's ...
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By June 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was predicted to cause a large increase in mail voting because of the possible danger of congregating at polling places. [189] An August 2020 state-by-state analysis concluded that 76% of Americans were eligible to vote by mail in 2020, a record number.