2020 United States presidential election in Illinois

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Main article: 2020 United States presidential election
2020 United States presidential election in Illinois
← 2016 November 3, 2020 2024 →
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Nominee Donald Trump Joe Biden
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Florida Delaware
Running mate Mike Pence Kamala Harris
Incumbent President

Donald Trump
Republican


Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 2020 United States presidential election in Illinois is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate.[1] Illinois voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Illinois has 20 electoral votes in the Electoral College.[2]

Election information

Turnout

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See also: 2020 Illinois elections § Turnout

Primary elections

Illinois held its primary elections as scheduled, despite concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[3] Election officials in Illinois acknowledged that they believed turnout was unusually low.[3]

In the state-run primaries (Democratic and Republican), turnout was 28.36%, with 2,279,439 votes cast.[4][5] The 28.36% turnout marked an 18.2 percentage point decrease from the turnout in the 2016 state-run presidential primaries, but a similar turnout to the 2000, 2004, and 2012 presidential primaries.[4][5]

Primaries

The state-run primary elections for the Democratic and Republican parties were held on March 17, 2020. The Green Party had organized its own primary on March 14, 2020.

Democratic primary

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Main article: 2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary
2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary
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184 Democratic National Convention delegates (155 pledged, 29 unpledged)
The number of pledged delegates won is determined by the popular vote
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Candidate Joe Biden Bernie Sanders
Home state Delaware Vermont
Delegate count 95 60
Popular vote 986,661 605,701
Percentage 58.94% 36.18%
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Election results by county
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The 2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on March 17, 2020, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Major candidates in the Democratic Party included Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.

Michelle Obama, former First Lady, who is from Illinois, declined to run.[6][7][8] Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago and former aide to Barack Obama, has also declined.[9][10][11]

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2020 Illinois Democratic primary[12]
Candidate Votes  % Delegates
Joe Biden 924,771 59.0 94
Bernie Sanders 565,762 36.1 60
Michael Bloomberg (withdrawn) 23,809 1.5 0
Elizabeth Warren (withdrawn) 22,067 1.4 0
Tulsi Gabbard 9,118 0.6 0
Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn) 9,080 0.6 0
Andrew Yang (withdrawn) 3,784 0.2 0
Cory Booker (withdrawn) 2,593 0.2 0
Tom Steyer (withdrawn) 1,619 0.1 0
Deval Patrick (withdrawn) 1,522 0.1 0
Michael Bennet (withdrawn) 1,286 0.1 0
John Delaney (withdrawn) 1,122 0.1 0
Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn) 0 0.0 0
Total 1,566,533 100% 154 (out of 155)

Republican primary

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Main article: 2020 Illinois Republican presidential primary
2020 Illinois Republican presidential primary
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Candidate Donald Trump
Home state Florida[13]
Delegate count 67
Popular vote 520,956
Percentage 95.98%

The 2020 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on March 17, 2020, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Incumbent president Donald Trump won the primary with over 96 percent of the vote.[14] Joe Walsh, a former member of the House of Representatives from Illinois, announced the launch of his campaign in August 2019 and dropped out in February 2020. Trump was also challenged by Rocky De La Fuente, a businessman of California, who achieved 4% of the vote. Richard Mayers, a 2016 Green Party candidate was a write in candidate here.

Illinois Republican Party presidential primary, 2020[15][16]
Candidate Popular vote Delegates
Count Percentage
Donald Trump (incumbent) 520,956 95.98% 67
Rocky De La Fuente 21,833 4.02% 0
Richard Mayers write-in 11 0.00% 0
Total: 542,800 100% 67

Green

2020 Illinois Green Party presidential primary
← 2016 March 14, 2020 2024 →
27 Green National Convention delegates
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Candidate Howie Hawkins Dario Hunter
Party Green Green
Home state New York California
Delegate count 20 7
Popular vote unknown unknown
Percentage 73% 27%

The 2020 Illinois Green Party presidential primary was held from March 14, 2020, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Green Party's state primaries ahead of the 2020 presidential election. It was run by the Green Party of Illinois.

Illinois Green Party presidential primary, March 14, 2020[17]
Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates
Howie Hawkins 73% 20
Dario Hunter 27% 7
Total 100.00% 27

General election

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[18] Safe D September 10, 2020
Inside Elections[19] Safe D September 4, 2020
Sabato's Crystal Ball[20] Safe D July 14, 2020
Politico[21] Safe D September 8, 2020
RCP[22] Likely D August 3, 2020
Niskanen[23] Safe D July 26, 2020
CNN[24] Safe D August 3, 2020
The Economist[25] Safe D September 2, 2020
CBS News[26] Likely D August 16, 2020
270towin[27] Safe D August 2, 2020
ABC News[28] Safe D July 31, 2020
NPR[29] Likely D August 3, 2020
NBC News[30] Likely D August 6, 2020
538[31] Safe D September 9, 2020

Results

2020 United States presidential election in Illinois[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Donald Trump and Mike Pence
Democratic Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and Spike Cohen
Green Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker
style="background-color: Template:American Solidarity Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[American Solidarity Party|Template:American Solidarity Party/meta/shortname]] Brian Carroll and Amar Patel
Socialism and Liberation Gloria La Riva and Leonard Peltier
Total votes

Notes

Partisan clients

See also

References

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