2020 Illinois elections


The Illinois general election will be held on November 3, 2020. Primary elections, held using an open primary system, took place on March 17, 2020.
Illinois held its primary elections as scheduled despite concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. State election officials believed that this depressed voter turnout. On June 16, 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 will be sent applications for mail-in ballots by August 1. The bill also makes November 3 a state holiday for schools and government offices to reduce the number of people present at voting sites.

Election information

Turnout

Primary election

For the primary election, turnout was 28.36%, with 2,279,439 votes cast. Democratic ballots accounted for 74.80% of ballots, while Republican ballots accounted for 24.72%.
Illinois held its primary elections as scheduled, despite concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Election officials in Illinois acknowledged that they believed the turnout was unusually low.
The turnout of 28.36 was a 18.20% decrease from the turnout in 2016 primaries. 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 both 2000 and 2004 having seen lower primary election turnout than 2020.
Data shows that mail-in ballots likely accounted for roughly 10% of votes cast. Over 636,000 of votes cast were done so as early votes.
;Turnout by county
CountyRegistrationVotes castTurnout
Adams44,36013,64030.75%
Alexander5,29688516.71%
Bond10,6142,69225.36%
Boone33,7367,52522.31%
Brown3,5461,16432.83%
Bureau23,2174,65020.03%
Calhoun3,39068820.29%
Carroll10,4802,30421.98%
Cass7,7381,50619.46%
Champaign119,53834,49728.86%
Christian21,3364,80122.50%
Clark10,9283,51832.19%
Clay9,1403,35336.68%
Clinton25,3495,20720.54%
Coles28,9247,99327.63%
Cook3,094,7251,037,95133.54%
Crawford12,2793,76530.66%
Cumberland7,3882,41232.65%
DeKalb61,41915,94025.95%
DeWitt10,6943,41931.97%
Douglas11,6263,56930.70%
DuPage603,823157,31626.05%
Edgar12,1693,10125.48%
Edwards4,4301,63036.79%
Effingham23,7368,11634.19%
Fayette12,9363,64028.14%
Ford8,7602,68830.68%
Franklin28,9867,40825.56%
Fulton25,3625,30420.91%
Gallatin3,7111,27534.36%
Greene9,1042,41326.50%
Grundy33,3356,94020.82%
Hamilton5,6692,08636.80%
Hancock11,6724,75840.76%
Hardin3,05283727.42%
Henderson4,5961,31828.68%
Henry34,9566,47118.51%
Iroquois17,7564,56325.7%
Jackson30,8899,49730.75%
Jasper6,8852,79940.65%
Jefferson23,2777,32431.46%
Jersey15,0203,14520.94%
Jo Daviess15,8825,02431.63%
Johnson8,5193,60442.31%
Kane305,47176,96925.20%
Kankakee66,20618,04827.26%
Kendall79,46824,07930.30%
Knox32,8887,36222.39%
Lake464,259109,70923.63%
LaSalle70,55315,98722.66%
Lawrence8,9122,62229.42%
Lee22,1604,69021.16%
Livingston21,1896,12628.91%
Logan17,9515,99333.39%
Macon71,26315,51121.77%
Macoupin31,5347,42323.54%
Madison178,32140,89422.93%
Marion24,7917,61130.70%
Marshall8,1122,33228.75%
Mason9,2012,62728.55%
Massac11,1172,51822.65%
McDonough17,8003,97922.35%
McHenry231,61054,77523.65%
McLean109,09332,41829.72%
Menard9,2031,94821.17%
Mercer12,4752,72521.84%
Monroe26,6105,24919.73%
Montgomery16,6804,22225.31%
Morgan22,0304,48320.35%
Moultrie8,4222,39028.38%
Ogle32,65910,08430.88%
Peoria114,95225,50222.18%
Perry14,8363,52423.75%
Piatt12,1153,44728.45%
Pike10,9842,90826.47%
Pope2,98784028.12%
Pulaski4,5031,45532.31%
Putnam4,0991,07126.13%
Randolph20,8894,18620.04%
Richland10,9614,28439.08%
Rock Island87,20921,05224.14%
Saline15,9454,26326.74%
Sangamon134,69430,12722.37%
Schuyler5,0991,27925.08%
Scott3,5191,58344.98%
Shelby14,6594,71432.16%
Stark3,94878219.81%
St. Clair190,07540,30021.2%
Stephenson32,6706,70920.54%
Tazewell91,56719,03520.79%
Union12,5513,46227.58%
Vermilion45,66713,05128.58%
Wabash7,5352,70835.94%
Warren11,9182,90524.37%
Washington9,6713,10532.11%
Wayne10,9744,29639.15%
White10,6042,75826.01%
Whiteside37,3307,32919.63%
Will453,582115,24125.41%
Williamson45,23310,60123.44%
Winnebago179,65845,30325.22%
Woodford25,8746,10923.61%
8,036,5342,279,43928.36%

Federal elections

Presidential election

U.S. Senate

Illinois' Class 2 United States Senate seat will be up for reelection. Incumbent Democrat Dick Durbin is seeking a fifth term.

U.S. House

All eighteen of Illinois' congressional seats are up for reelection.

State elections

State House of Representatives

Elections will be held for all 118 seats in the Illinois House of Representatives.

State Senate

Elections will be held for 20 out of 59 seats in the Illinois Senate.

Judicial elections

Elections will be held for three seats in the Supreme Court of Illinois and 10 seats in the Illinois Appellate Court.

Ballot measures

Illinois Fair Tax

The Illinois Fair Tax amendment, known formally as the "Allow for Graduated Income Tax Amendment", is a ballot measure that will appear statewide in the 2020 general election. It 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. In order to be approved, the measure will be required to receive either 60% support among those specifically voting on the amendment or 50% support among all ballots cast in the state's election. If approved, the measure would amend the Constitution of Illinois to allow for a graduated income tax in the state.

Local elections

Local elections are also being held. These include county elections.

Cook County

In Cook County, elections will be held for State's Attorney, Clerk of the Circuit Court, one seat on the Board of Review, 3 seats on the Water Reclamation District Board, and several judgeships in the Circuit Court of Cook County and its subcircuits.