2022 Midterm Elections results in Illinois: who won the Senate, House and Governor races?
There is a Senate seat and place in the governor’s office up for grabs in the 2022 midterms in Illinois.
Polls in Illinois close at 7 p.m. CT and we will soon have the first tranche of voting information from the state’s midterm elections. Illinois has voted for the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1992 the the Democrats will be confident of doing well in the state once again.
We will be updating this article as more results are released. Follow all the latest news from the midterms with Election Day 2022: Live
Governor
The two candidates for governor in the state of Illinois are incumbent Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a wealthy Democrat, and far-right state senator Darren Bailey. Although Pritzker is thought to have roughly a 15-point advantage in pre-election polling, Pritzker boasts the vital Trump endorsement that has carried candidates up and down the country into convincing polling leads this midterms.
| Candidate | Votes | Percent of Total |
|---|---|---|
| J.B. Pritzker (D) - WIN | 53.9% | 2,089,993 |
| Darren Bailey (R) | 43.3% | 1,676,780 |
Senate
There is one Senate seat up for re-election in the 2022 midterms in Illinois. Democrat incumbent Tammy Duckworth faces off against Kathy Salvi. Sen. Duckworth is heavily fancied to retain her seat this year and holds a 15-point lead in polls provided by FiveThirtyEight. However the Republican candidate, Chicago-based lawyer Salvi, has kept fighting until the end.
| Candidate | Votes | Percent of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Tammy Duckworth (D) - WIN | 55.8% | 2,157,036 |
| Kathy Salvi (R) | 42.4% | 1,640,199 |
House
Pennsylvania is divided into 17 congressional districts, each of which will elect its representatives for the 118th Congress. Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections there were 13 Republicans members in the illinois delegation and just five Republicans.
| Total Seats | Democrats | Republicans | Independent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 13 (lean 1) | 3 |