2014 Illinois elections

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Turnout	49.18%

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Ageneral election was held in theU.S. state ofIllinois on November 4, 2014. All of Illinois' executive officers were up for election as well as aUnited States Senate seat, and all of Illinois' eighteen seats in theUnited States House of Representatives.Primary elections were held on March 18, 2014.

2014 was amidterm election year in the United States.

For the primary election, turnout was 18.09%, with 1,357,807 votes cast.^[1]

Turnout by county^[1]

For the general election, turnout was 49.18%, with 3,680,417 votes cast.^[2]

Turnout by county^[2]

Incumbent Democratic senator andSenate Majority WhipDick Durbin won reelection to a fourth term.

All of Illinois' 18 seats in theUnited States House of Representatives were up for election in 2014.

The Republican Party flipped two Democratic-held seat, making the composition of Illinois' House delegation 10 Democrats and 8 Republicans.

IncumbentDemocraticGovernorPat Quinn ran for re-election to a second full term as governor. Quinn, the then-lieutenant governor, assumed the office of governor on January 29, 2009, whenRod Blagojevich wasimpeached and removed from office. He was narrowly elected to a first full termin 2010.^[4]

Quinn was renominated by the Democrats, while theRepublicans chose businessman and venture capitalistBruce Rauner and theLibertarians nominated political activist Chad Grimm.

Previously in Illinois, there were separate primary elections for governor and lieutenant governor, with the winners then running together on the same ticket. In 2011, the law was changed and candidates for governor now pick their own running mate. Incumbent Democratic lieutenant governorSheila Simon did not run for re-election, instead running unsuccessfully for Comptroller.^[5] She was replaced as Quinn's running mate by formerChicago Public Schools CEOPaul Vallas. Rauner choseWheaton City CouncilwomanEvelyn Sanguinetti and Grimm chose Alex Cummings.^[6]

Rauner defeated Quinn in the general election by 50.3% of the vote to Quinn's 46.4%. Rauner won every county in Illinois except forCook County, home to the city ofChicago and 40% of the state's residents.^[7]

2014 Illinois Attorney General election

← 2010 November 4, 2014 2018 →
Turnout	48.15%
Nominee Lisa Madigan Paul Schimpf Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 2,142,558 1,360,763 Percentage 59.46% 37.77%
County results Madigan:     40–50%     50–60%     70–80% Schimpf:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%
Attorney General before election Lisa Madigan Democratic Elected Attorney General Lisa Madigan Democratic

Incumbent DemocraticAttorney GeneralLisa Madigan ran for re-election to a fourth term in office.

• Lisa Madigan,Illinois Attorney General^[9]

• Paul Schimpf, attorney and former U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer^[11]

• Mark Curran,Lake County sheriff^[12]
• Mike Webster, attorney, accountant, and president Cass School District 63 Board of Education (ran for secretary of state)^[13]

• Tom Cross, state representative and former minority leader of theIllinois House of Representatives (ran for Treasurer)^[14]
• Jim Durkin, state representative (replaced Cross as Minority Leader)^[15]

2014 Illinois Secretary of State election

← 2010 November 4, 2014 2018 →
Turnout	48.30%
Nominee Jesse White Mike Webster Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 2,374,849 1,134,452 Percentage 65.70% 31.39%
County results White:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80% Webster:     40–50%     50–60%
Secretary of State before election Jesse White Democratic Elected Secretary of State Jesse White Democratic

Incumbent DemocraticSecretary of StateJesse White ran for re-election to a fifth term in office.

• Jesse White,Illinois Secretary of State^[23]

• Mike Webster, attorney, accountant, and president of the Cass School District 63 Board of Education^[24]

• Will Lindsey, businessman^[25]

2014 Illinois State Comptroller election

← 2010 November 4, 2014 2016 (special) →
Turnout	47.89%
Nominee Judy Baar Topinka Sheila Simon Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 1,775,983 1,636,593 Percentage 49.56% 45.67%
County results Topinka:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80% Simon:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%
State Comptroller before election Judy Baar Topinka Republican Elected State Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka Republican

Incumbent RepublicanComptrollerJudy Baar Topinka ran for re-election to a second term in office. As of 2022^[update], this was the last time a Republican was elected Comptroller.

• Sheila Simon,Lieutenant Governor of Illinois^[30]

• Judy Baar Topinka,Illinois Comptroller^[31]

• William J. Kelly, political activist, columnist, and candidate forIllinois Comptrollerin 2010^[32]

Topinka died on December 10, 2014. Governor Pat Quinn appointedJerry Stermer to serve out the remainder of her term. A special election was held for the office in 2016.

2014 Illinois State Treasurer election

← 2010 November 4, 2014 2018 →
Turnout	47.14%
Nominee Mike Frerichs Tom Cross Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 1,694,885 1,685,659 Percentage 48.05% 47.79%
County results Frerichs:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70% Cross:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%
Treasurer before election Dan Rutherford Republican Elected Treasurer Mike Frerichs Democratic

Incumbent RepublicanTreasurerDan Rutherford did not run for re-election to a second term in office. He instead ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for governor.

• Tom Cross, minority leader of theIllinois House of Representatives^[41]
• Bob Grogan,DuPage County auditor^[42]

• Michael Scott Carter, financial executive^[43]
• Bob Schillerstrom, former chairman of theDuPage County Board and candidate for governorin 2010^[44]

• Darin LaHood, state senator^[45]
• Dan Rutherford,Illinois Treasurer^[46]

• Mike Frerichs, state senator and formerChampaign County auditor^[49]

One-third of the seats of theIllinois Senate were up for election in 2014.

All of Illinois' 118 seats in theIllinois House of Representatives were up for election in 2014.

No seats flipped in this election, retaining the composition at 71 Democrats and 47 Republicans.

Judicial elections were held, which consisted of both partisan andretention elections, including those one seat of theSupreme Court of Illinois for ten seats in theIllinois Appellate Court.^[55]

Illinois voters voted on a two ballot measures in 2014.^[56] In order to be approved, the measures required either 60% support among those specifically voting on the amendment or 50% support among all ballots cast in the elections.^[56]

Illinois voters approved the Illinois Crime Victims' Bill of Rights (commonly known as "Marsy's Law"), alegislatively referred constitutional amendment.

Illinois voters approved the Illinois Right to Vote Amendment, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The amendment was designed to provide that no person shall be denied the right to register to vote or cast a ballot in an election based on race, color, ethnicity, language, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation or income.^[58]

Both proponents and opponents argued that the legislation was intended to blockVoter Identification laws from being passed in Illinois.^[58]

The measure added a Section 8 to Article III of theConstitution of Illinois which reads,

No person shall be denied the right to register to vote or to cast a ballot in an election based on race, color, ethnicity, status as a member of a language minority, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or income.^[58]

Local elections were held. These included county elections, such as theCook County elections.

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