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| Turnout | 64.65% | |||
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Elections were held inIllinois on Tuesday, November 2, 1982.
Primaries were held on March 16.[1]
1982 was amidterm election year in the United States.
Amidthe ongoing recession and resultant unpopularity of incumbent Republican presidentRonald Reagan, Democrats made significant gains in the national elections for theUnited States House of Representatives and in thegubernatorial elections.[2][3][4] In Illinois, Democrats made gains in the House of Representatives elections. Democrats also managed to flip control of the office ofIllinois Attorney General. While the election was incredibly close, RepublicanJames R. Thompson managed to retain his governorship.
Turnout in the primary election was 27.38%, with a total of 1,622,410 ballots cast.[5] 949,426 Democratic and 672,984 Republican primary ballots were cast.[1]
Turnout during the general election was 64.65%, with 3,856,875 ballots cast.[5]
There were "62 indictments and 58 convictions, many involving precinct captains and election officials. The grand jury concluded that 100,000 fraudulent votes had been cast in the city ... Authorities found massive fraud involving vote buying and ballots cast by others in the names of registered voters. In one case, a ballot punched for the Democratic slate had been tabulated 198 times."[6] The case was prosecuted in November 1982 by US AttorneyDan K. Webb.[7][8][9]
The gubernatorial election result has been questioned. Some Democrats have alleged that fraud might have been committed by Republicans in areas outsideChicago to secure Thompson his victory.[7] In 2016,Rudy Giuliani suggested that the gubernatorial results had been fraudulent on the part of Chicago Democrats.[10]
In January 1983, theIllinois Supreme Court rejected a petition by Democratic gubernatorial nomineeAdlai Stevenson III for a full statewiderecount, with the majority opinion finding there to be insufficient evidence of either mistakes, fraud, or irregularities to warrant a recount[11]
Illinois had lost two congressional districts (the23rd and24th) in reapportionment following the1980 United States census. All 22 of Illinois' remaining seats in theUnited States House of Representatives were up for election in 1982
Before the election, there were 14 Republican and 10 Democratic seats. In 1982, 12 Democrats and 9 Republicans were elected from Illinois.
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| Turnout | 61.58%[5][12] | |||||||||||||||||||
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 County results Thompson: 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% Stevenson: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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IncumbentGovernorJames R. Thompson, a Republican, narrowly won reelection to a third term, defeating DemocratAdlai Stevenson III by merely 5,074 votes.George Ryan joined Thompson on the Republican ticket, and won a first term as Lieutenant Governor.
The election was surprisingly close, as, before the election, Thompson had been favored by polls and predictions to win by roughly twenty percentage points.[13]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | James R. Thompson (incumbent) /George Ryan | 1,816,101 | 49.44 | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson III /Grace Mary Stern | 1,811,027 | 49.30 | |
| Libertarian | Bea Armstrong/ David L. Kelley | 24,417 | 0.66 | |
| Taxpayers | John E. Roche/ Melvin "Mel" Jones | 22,001 | 0.60 | |
| Write-in | Others | 161 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 3,673,707 | 100 | ||
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| Turnout | 60.96%[5][12] | ||||||||||||||||
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 County results Hartigan: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% Fahner: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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IncumbentAttorney GeneralTyrone C. Fahner, a Republican appointed in 1980, lost reelection to DemocratNeil Hartigan.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Neil F. Hartigan | 606,662 | 99.99 | |
| Write-in | Others | 48 | 0.01 | |
| Total votes | 606,710 | 100 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Ty Fahner (incumbent) | 524,853 | 100 | |
| Write-in | Others | 27 | 0.01 | |
| Total votes | 524,880 | 100 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Neil F. Hartigan | 2,064,196 | 56.76 | |
| Republican | Ty Fahner (incumbent) | 1,519,507 | 41.78 | |
| Libertarian | Natalie Loder Clark | 28,074 | 0.77 | |
| Taxpayers | Gordon James Arnett | 24,719 | 0.68 | |
| Write-in | Others | 12 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 3,636,508 | 100 | ||
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| Turnout | 61.87%[5][12] | ||||||||||||||||
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 County results Edgar: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Cosentino: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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IncumbentSecretary of StateJim Edgar, a Republican first appointed in 1981, was elected to a full term.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Jerry Cosentino | 614,540 | 100 | |
| Write-in | Others | 23 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 614,563 | 100 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Jim Edgar (incumbent) | 558,327 | 100 | |
| Write-in | Others | 15 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 558,342 | 100 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Jim Edgar (incumbent) | 1,942,664 | 52.64 | |
| Democratic | Jerome Cosentino | 1,709,008 | 46.31 | |
| Taxpayers | Kenneth J. Prazak | 19,728 | 0.53 | |
| Libertarian | Roger Hosbein | 19,216 | 0.52 | |
| Write-in | Others | 9 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 3,690,625 | 100 | ||
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| Turnout | 60.56%[5][12] | ||||||||||||||||
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 County results Burris: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Skinner: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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IncumbentComptrollerRoland Burris, a Democrat, won reelection to a second term.
IncumbentRoland Burris won renomination unopposed.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Roland W. Burris (incumbent) | 630,921 | 100 | |
| Write-in | Others | 25 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 630,946 | 100 | ||
Former State RepresentativeCalvin Skinner won the Republican primary unopposed.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Cal Skinner Jr. | 512,639 | 100 | |
| Write-in | Others | 27 | 0.01 | |
| Total votes | 512,666 | 100 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Roland W. Burris (incumbent) | 2,327,779 | 64.43 | |
| Republican | Cal Skinner Jr. | 1,210,467 | 33.50 | |
| Taxpayers | Leland W. Bormann | 37,835 | 1.05 | |
| Libertarian | Stephen M. Johnson | 36,856 | 1.02 | |
| Write-in | Others | 12 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 3,612,949 | 100 | ||
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| Turnout | 60.47%[5][12] | ||||||||||||||||
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 County results Donnewald: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% Dailey: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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IncumbentTreasurerJerome Cosentino, a Democrat, did not run for a second term, instead opting to run for Secretary of State. DemocratJames Donnewald was elected to succeed him in office.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | James H. Donnewald | 579,254 | 100 | |
| Write-in | Others | 8 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 579,262 | 100 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | John P. Dailey | 353,106 | 60.61 | |
| Republican | W. Robert Blair | 229,487 | 39.39 | |
| Write-in | Others | 8 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 582,601 | 100 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | James H. Donnewald | 1,940,828 | 53.81 | |
| Republican | John P. Dailey | 1,573,496 | 43.62 | |
| Taxpayers | Naomi F. Wilson | 60,251 | 1.67 | |
| Libertarian | Walter E. Edge | 32,452 | 0.90 | |
| Write-in | Paul Salander | 22 | 0.00 | |
| Total votes | 3,607,049 | 100 | ||
As this was the first election after aredistricting, all of the seats of theIllinois Senate were up for election in 1982. Democrats retained control of the chamber.
All of the seats in theIllinois House of Representatives were up for election in 1982. Democrats flipped control of the chamber.
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An election was held for three of nine seats for Trustees ofUniversity of Illinois system.
The election saw the reelection incumbentsWilliam D. Forsyth Jr. and George W. Howard, III and the election of new trustee Albert N. Logan Jr.[14][15]
Incumbent second-term Democrat Earl L. Langdon was not renominated.[14][15]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | William D. Forsyth Jr. (incumbent) | 1,865,806 | 22.95 | |
| Democratic | Albert N. Logan | 1,775,410 | 21.84 | |
| Democratic | George W. Howard, III (incumbent) | 1,739,795 | 21.40 | |
| Republican | Jane Hayes Rader | 1,403,554 | 17.26 | |
| Republican | Park Livingston | 1,252,356 | 15.40 | |
| Republican | Larry Gougler | 1,234,911 | 15.19 | |
| Taxpayers | Helen Louise Wells | 209,396 | 2.58 | |
| Taxpayers | Robert Joseph Loftus | 133,157 | 1.64 | |
| Taxpayers | Phoebe T. Dover | 131,786 | 1.62 | |
| Libertarian | Michael Edward Stack | 92,501 | 1.14 | |
| Libertarian | Joseph Maxwell | 81,901 | 1.01 | |
| Libertarian | Geoffrey S. Nathan | 76,064 | 0.95 | |
| Total votes | 8,130,831 | 100 | ||
Multiple judicial positions were up for election in 1982.
Illinois voters voted on a single ballot measure in 1982.[16] 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.[16]
Voters approved the Bail Amendment (also known as "Amendment 1"), alegislatively referred constitutional amendment which amended Article I, Section 9 of theConstitution of Illinois to expand the population that could be denied bail to include those who committed an offense that could result in alife imprisonment sentence.[16][17]
| Bail Amendment[5][16][17] | |||
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| Option | Votes | % of votes on referendum | % of all ballots cast |
| Yes | 1,389,796 | 85.31 | 36.03 |
| No | 239,380 | 14.69 | 6.21 |
| Total votes | 1,629,176 | 100 | 42.24 |
| Voter turnout | 27.31% | ||
Local elections were held.
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