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Illinois had 20 votes in the Electoral College. [2] 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 ...
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.
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.
This was the first election since 1868 in which Illinois did not have 20 or more electoral votes. Illinois was won by the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Illinois shifted towards Trump, Harris winning the state by a 10.9% margin, six points down from Biden.
(The Center Square) – As Illinois’ presidential electors cast their Electoral College votes, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin advocates to abolish the system that picks the president of the United States.
Currently, there are 538 electors, based on 435 representatives, 100 senators from the fifty states and three electors from Washington, D.C. The six states with the most electors are California (54), Texas (40), Florida (30), New York (28), Illinois (19), and Pennsylvania (19).
Elections in Illinois are directly administered by 109 election authorities. Seven municipalities each have an election commission as the local election authority only within that municipality. Outside of those, the county clerk is the local election authority in 100 counties, and 2 counties have a separate election commission . [ 3 ]
Rockland County joins other local governments challenging the constitutionality of a state law moving local elections to even-numbered years. Rockland sues NYS to block even-year elections ...