Illinois primary election results thread
posted at 9:11 pm on February 2, 2010 by Cassy Fiano
It’s just about 9:00, and the polls in the Illinois primary election race have been closed for about an hour. The Chicago Sun-Times is tracking the results as they come in. So far, only 24% of precincts are reporting in, and here is what they’re showing so far on the GOP end:
US Senate, GOP Primary:
- Mark Kirk: 65%
- Patrick Hughes: 18%
- Don Lowery: 5%
- Kathleen Thomas: 5%
- Andy Martin: 4%
- John Arrington: 3%
Governor, GOP Primary:
- Andy McKenna: 28%
- Jim Ryan: 21%
- Kirk Dillard: 18%
- Adam Andrzejewski: 16%
- Dan Proft: 10%
- Bill Brady: 6%
- Bob Schillerstrom: 1%
County Board President, GOP Primary
- Roger Keats: 63%
- John Garrido: 37%
I hate to say it, but it sure looks unlikely that Andrzejewski is going to walk away with the GOP nomination. There are still only 24% of precincts reporting at the time of this posting, however, so there’s still some hope, I guess. Mark Kirk has a handy lead in the Senate race, which is to be expected.
On the Democratic side, Gov. Pat Quinn is leading Dan Hynes 53% – 47% and Alexi Giannoulias has a five point lead. This is also pretty much to be expected.
The Sun-Times will be updating with results all night. In the meantime, consider this an open election thread.
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Sorry jwolf-my response was accidentally written within your comment-rather than after it.
/facepalm.
annoyinglittletwerp on February 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Scour the graveyards for a recently deceased fifty-five year old typical white hairy guy and I’ll come vote in his stead…
OmahaConservative on February 3, 2010 at 11:48 AM
We could use you. :) My 90 year old mother in law just passed away recently but I don’t think we could get away with that one.
Not a problem, I think most of us make some kind of formatting foulup from time to time. I know I have.
jwolf on February 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but I am really a little surprised that Scott Cohen won the Dem. Lt. Gov. nomination.
From what I can tell, he was a mortgage broker, and then he started a company that sells “green” cleaning products (presumably will compete for state contracts, no?) and then he ran for elected office. He just seems like a complete crook.
So I hope the R’s will win in the general, but if it’s Gannoulias and Cohen, maybe they will both end up in jail, and we can have a special election to try again.
yocheved on February 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Can y’all afford that?
OmahaConservative on February 3, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Because Brady represents almost everything the tea party platform stands for as well, and has a record to prove it. Also because Brady will provide energy in downstate house districts that Republicans either hold or can take over. They didn’t have to sacrifice much, if anything, on their platform and got behind a winner….both for the governors race and the whole political scene in Illinois.
I just hope Brady hangs on to this one.
stldave on February 3, 2010 at 12:42 PM
How can we even do a recount when our state government cannot even balance a budget? Can we trust IL government with numbers?
WashJeff on February 3, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Just got an update:
Brady by 509 votes with 73 precincts left.
WashJeff on February 3, 2010 at 3:18 PM
Latest update good news — as good as I could imagine, anyway — but why are these last precincts so slow? Even with dinosaur hand counting technology they could have been done by now. So what gives?
jwolf on February 3, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Trunks are frozen shut and they don’t have enough blowtorches.
OmahaConservative on February 3, 2010 at 3:46 PM
South side always comes in last. They need to get the totals from the other precincts to know how many boxes to bring in from the trunk.
yocheved on February 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM
It is doubtful that Dillard could legitimately the vote margin with only 72 prencints left.
SouthernGent on February 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM
–Course it looks like about 900K voted in the Dem primary for governor and only about 675K voted in the GOP primary for governor.
Jimbo3 on February 3, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Course it looks like about 900K voted in the Dem primary for governor and only about 675K voted in the GOP primary for governor.
Jimbo3 on February 3, 2010 at 4:47 PM
In the precinct that I worked in “D” voters outnumbered “R” voters 2-1. Actually it might have been 3-1.
The creatures in IL 2 vote like sheep-I live in IL 2 btw-so it wasn’t really surprising.
In the precinct I worked at the Dem voters out numbered the Rep voter 2-1.
annoyinglittletwerp on February 3, 2010 at 4:54 PM
–And, as someone who lived in Illinois for 20+ years a while ago, my point was that it’s still tough for me to believe whoever the GOP runs will beat a Dem with a 200,000 difference in the primaries. But we’ll see.
Jimbo3 on February 3, 2010 at 5:16 PM
Couple things:
- Turn out was low. I would say that “independents” stayed home. While I find not voting an an election bad, it is hard to blame IL citizens for being disgusted with both parties in this state. Now who will the independents hold to account in IL this Nov?
- Cook county had a board President election that garnered a lot of hype. Since the winner of this primary most likely wins the Presidency of the Board, there is a big incentive to vote in Cook county (even for GOP types to take a Democrat ballot to pick the “lesser of evils”). No numbers to back up this claim…just my own speculation.
WashJeff on February 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Update….
According to the local news, Brady still leads with about 750 votes.
Absentee ballots are still coming in and the race won’t be called until February 23rd.
Knucklehead on February 3, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Illinois – 11215 of 11215 Precincts Reporting – 100%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Brady , Bill GOP 155,263 20%
Dillard , Kirk GOP 154,857 20%
stldave on February 4, 2010 at 12:18 AM
As with the GOP presidential primary, so many candidates
Andy McKenna: 28%
Jim Ryan: 21%
Kirk Dillard: 18%
Adam Andrzejewski: 16%
Dan Proft: 10%
Bill Brady: 6%
Bob Schillerstrom: 1%
I know there are differences between candidates, but this type of primary is becoming the way to stop the momentum of a growing party consensus from gaining a voice.
When so many are in the race to the finish, it is either ego, stupidity, or strategy. The stupid and egotistical ones can be pumped to stay in the race by the strategists when the more humble candidate might withdraw for the sake of narrowing choices for voters. Even political parties can be divided into camps, and the most successful division is two parts, a binary decision, to gather the most like minded voters in that party into some level of compromise before the general election.
This takes big minded primary candidates willing to let the best man win and not run a game of chicken to the end.
The worst candidate is one who was put in by political games, because the voters were never part of the discussion. Getting 25 percent in a field of seven is no sign the voters will follow. Getting endorsements from opponents after the polls close is too late to win voters to a candidate for whom they may have no affection
All the races this year are more interesting than usual, because the public is trapped in a bad situation and they are less obedient
entagor on February 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM
entagor, four years ago here in IL the GOP primary had three candidates: Judy Barr Topinka (biggest RINO ever), Jim Oberweiss (decent consevative), and Bill Brady (conservative). Of the two conservatives, Oberweiss was far more popular than Brady. Many people wished that Brady would drop out so that Oberweiss could win. The vote was split and Topinka won with way under 50% of the vote. Republicans of IL wanted a conservative but Brady played spoiler. I was so upset that I refused to vote for a RINO whom we’d be stuck with for the next elecion cycle if she were to win. I was happy Blago won, got impeached, and now we got to start over. Then it happened again! Only this time it was Proft &, imo, Adam who should’ve dropped out. The others were running too close to justify it. *sigh*.
All the conservatives are waaaaay more popular (getting 80% of the combined vote) to the one RINO (Dillard) who only managed to get 20%. Again, IL Republicans really do want conservative governors, but when we get stuck with a RINO, we have noone to get us excited and so we don’t vote come November. IF Dillard pulls this out, I will not vote for him. I will vote for Senate and Rep and that’s it.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on February 4, 2010 at 3:20 AM
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