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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 .
Illinois voters rejected the Illinois Fair Tax amendment, known formally as the "Allow for Graduated Income Tax Amendment", an amendment that appeared on ballots statewide in the general election. This was placed on the ballot by the state legislature in June 2019, and was a key campaign issue in Governor J. B. Pritzker 's 2018 election . [ 14 ]
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.
On February 13, 2020, American intelligence officials advised members of the House Intelligence Committee that Russia was interfering in the 2020 election in an effort to get Trump re-elected. [ 140 ] [ 141 ] The briefing was delivered by Shelby Pierson , the intelligence community's top election security official and an aide to acting Director ...
She won a full term in 2020 unopposed in the general election after defeating Christopher McCall, a local defense attorney, in the Democratic primary that spring. Live updates, results: Illinois ...
The Cook County, Illinois, general election was held on November 3, 2020. [1] Elections were held for Clerk of the Circuit Court, State's Attorney, Cook County Board of Review district 1, three seats on the Water Reclamation District Board, and judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County. [2] Primary elections, held using the open primary ...
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 ]
Chicago, Illinois prepare for record-busting Vote By Mail turnout for November 2020 election. July 4, 2020 at 1:41 PM.