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1996 Illinois elections Turnout 66.30%
Elections were held in Illinois [1]
Primaries were held March 19, 1996.[2]
Election information [ edit ]
Turnout [ edit ]
For the primaries, turnout was 29.46%, with 1,804,626 ballots cast (with 902,635 Democratic ballots, 868,030 Republican ballots, 1,993 Libertarian , 498 Harold Washington , and 31,470 nonpartisan ballots cast).[2]
For the general election, turnout was 66.30%, with 4,418,270 ballots cast.[1]
Straight-ticket voting [ edit ]
Illinois had a straight-ticket voting option in 1996.[1] [3]
Federal elections [ edit ]
United States President [ edit ]
Illinois voted for the Democratic Party ticket of Bill Clinton and Al Gore .[1]
United States Senate [ edit ]
Democrat Dick Durbin was elected to succeed outgoing Democratic Senator Paul Simon .
United States House [ edit ]
All 20 of Illinois’ seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 1996.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties flipped one seat held by the other party, leaving the party the composition of Illinois' House delegation 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans.
State elections [ edit ]
State Senate [ edit ]
Some of the seats of the Illinois Senate were up for election in 1996. Republicans retained control of the Illinois Senate, which they had held since 1993, having secured a majority from the 1992 election.[5]
State House of Representatives [ edit ]
All of the seats in the Illinois House of Representatives were up for election in 1996. Democrats flipped control of the Illinois House of Representatives, which had been held by Republicans since 1995 after they had won a majority in the 1994 election.[5]
Judicial elections [ edit ]
Judicial elections were held.
Local elections [ edit ]
Local elections were held. These included county elections, such as the Cook County elections .
References [ edit ]
^ "Straight Ticket Voting States" . www.ncsl.org . Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
^ "STATE OF ILLINOIS OFFICIAL VOTE Cast at the GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 5, 1996" (PDF) . Illinois Secretary of State. Retrieved October 16, 2020 .
^ a b "Party control of Illinois state government" . Ballotpedia . Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
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