2020 United States presidential election in Illinois

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]

Main article: 2020 United States presidential election
2020 United States presidential election in Illinois
November 3, 2020
 
Nominee Donald Trump Joe Biden
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Florida Delaware
Running mate Mike Pence TBA
President before election

Donald Trump
Republican

 Elected President

TBA

Elections in Illinois

Election information

Turnout
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]

Primary elections

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

Major candidates in the Democratic Party included Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Michelle Obama, former First Lady, who is from Illinois, has declined to run.[6][7][8] Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago and former aide to Barack Obama, has also declined.[9][10][11]

2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary[12][13]
Candidate Votes % Delegates
Joe Biden 986,661 58.94 94
Bernie Sanders 605,701 36.18 60
Michael Bloomberg (withdrawn) 25,500 1.52 0
Elizabeth Warren (withdrawn) 24,413 1.46 0
Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn) 9,729 0.58 0
Tulsi Gabbard 9,642 0.57 0
Andrew Yang (withdrawn) 4,021 0.24 0
Cory Booker (withdrawn) 2,684 0.16 0
Tom Steyer (withdrawn) 1,684 0.10 0
Deval Patrick (withdrawn) 1,567 0.01 0
Michael Bennet (withdrawn) 1,346 0.01 0
John Delaney (withdrawn) 1,185 0.01 0
Total 1,674,133 100% 154 (out of 155)

Republican primary

Donald Trump won the Republican 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 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 primary
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 June 19, 2020
Inside Elections[19] Safe D April 3, 2020
Sabato's Crystal Ball[20] Safe D June 25, 2020
Politico[21] Safe D April 19, 2020
RCP[22] Likely D June 22, 2020
Niskanen[23] Safe D March 24, 2020
CNN[24] Safe D June 25, 2020

Polling

Notes
    Partisan clients

      See also

      References
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