The 2024 Illinois primary election took place on Tuesday, March 19. Candidates for President, Congress, the Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Supreme Court, and various local races appeared on the primary ballot to decide the Democratic and Republican Party nominees for the November 5 general election. Statewide turnout rates are expected to be the lowest in a presidential election year since 2012. The City of Chicago reported 20% turnout, down from 38% in 2020 and 54% in 2016.
The 2024 Illinois primary election featured one competitive Supreme Court race, nine competitive Congressional races, six competitive State Senate races, and 22 competitive State House races. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump easily secured their respective Democrat and Republican nominations for President. Congressional incumbents performed very well with Reps. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Sean Casten, Danny Davis, Bill Foster, and Mike Bost all defeating their primary challengers.
In the General Assembly, two Democrat incumbents failed to secure their party’s nomination. Progressive Graciela Guzman defeated incumbent Sen. Natalie Toro in the 20th Senate District Democrat primary. Toro was only appointed to the Senate on July 10, 2023 to replace former Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas. Illinois’ longest serving state representative, Mary Flowers, lost the 31st House District Democrat nomination to Michael Crawford, who received funding from House Speaker Chris Welch’s political operation.
Chicago voters appear to have rejected the Bring Chicago Home ballot measure. With 80% of votes counted, the “no” campaign has a 7.2% lead. The measure, backed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, seeks to increase the real estate transfer tax rate on all property sales over $1M in the city to raise an estimated $100M in new annual tax revenue that would be used to provide services for Chicago’s homeless population.
*Results updated on March 22 at 8:11AM.
President
Democrat
| Joe Biden (D) (incumbent) | 91.4% |
| Marianne Williamson (D) | 3.6% |
| Dean Phillips (D) | 3.2% |
| Frankie Lozada (D) | 1.8% |
Republican
| Donald Trump (R) | 80.7% |
| Nikki Haley (R) | 14.4% |
| Ron DeSantis (R) | 2.9% |
| Chris Christie (R) | 1.6% |
| Ryan Binkley (R) | 0.5% |
Illinois Supreme Court
1st Supreme Court District
| Jesse G. Reyes (D) | 25.2% |
| Joy Virginia Cunningham (D) (incumbent) | 74.8% |
Ballot Measure
“Bring Chicago Home” Changes to the Real Estate Transfer Tax
| Yes | 46.4% |
| No | 53.6% |
U.S. Representatives
1st Congressional District
| Montelle Gaji (R) | 19.9% |
| Marcus Lewis (R) | 80.1% |
4th Congressional District
| Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D) (incumbent) | 69.2% |
| Raymond Lopez (D) | 30.8% |
6th Congressional District
| Sean Casten (D) (incumbent) | 77.2% |
| Mahnoor Ahmad (D) | 14.1% |
| Charles Hughes (D) | 8.7% |
7th Congressional District
| Danny K. Davis (D) (incumbent) | 53.3% |
| Nikhil Bhatia (D) | 4.6% |
| Kina Collins (D) | 17.8% |
| Melissa Conyears-Ervin (D) | 21.7% |
| Kouri Marshall (D) | 2.5% |
11th Congressional District
| Bill Foster (D) (incumbent) | 76.9% |
| Qasim Rashid (D) | 23.1% |
| Jerry Evans (R) | 50.8% |
| Susan Hathaway-Altman (R) | 37.0% |
| Kent Mercado (R) | 12.2% |
12th Congressional District
| Preston Nelson (D) | 40.0% |
| Brian Roberts (D) | 60.0% |
| Mike Bost (R) (incumbent) | 51.4% |
| Darren Bailey (R) | 48.6% |
13th Congressional District
| Thomas Clatterbuck (R) | 55.9% |
| Joshua Loyd (R) | 44.1% |
14th Congressional District
| Charlie Kim (R) | 20.9% |
| James Marter (R) | 79.1% |
17th Congressional District
| Scott Crowl (R) | 32.4% |
| Joseph G. McGraw (R) | 67.6% |
State Senate
19th Senate District
| Samantha Gasca (R) | 37.0% |
| Hillary Mattsey Kurzawa (R) | 33.7% |
| Max Solomon (R) | 29.3% |
20th Senate District
| Natalie Toro (D) (incumbent) | 30.4% |
| Graciela Guzman (D) | 49.8% |
| Geary Yonker (D) | 4.3% |
| Dave Nayak (D) | 15.5% |
37th Senate District
| Li Arellano Jr. (R) | 48.4% |
| Chris Bishop (R) | 15.1% |
| Tim Yager (R) | 36.5% |
40th Senate District
| Patrick Joyce (D) (incumbent) | 78.8% |
| Kimberly Earling (D) | 21.2% |
53rd Senate District
| Jesse Faber (R) | 31.9% |
| Susan Wynn Bence (R) | 7.9% |
| Chris Balkema (R) | 49.4% |
| Mike Kirkton (R) | 10.8% |
58th Senate District
| Terri Bryant (R) (incumbent) | 69.6% |
| Wesley Kash (R) | 30.4% |
State House
4th House District
| Lilian Jiménez (D) (incumbent) | 82.0% |
| Kirk Ortiz (D) | 18.0% |
5th House District
| Kimberly du Buclet (D) (incumbent) | 74.7% |
| Andre Smith (D) | 25.3% |
6th House District
| Sonya Harper (D) (incumbent) | 71.9% |
| Joseph G. Williams (D) | 28.1% |
21st House District
| Abdelnasser Rashid (D) (incumbent) | 67.0% |
| Vidal Vasquez (D) | 33.0% |
22nd House District
| Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar (D) (incumbent) | 73.4% |
| Joshua Hernandez (D) | 11.5% |
| John Topps (D) | 15.1% |
23rd House District
| Edgar Gonzalzez Jr. (D) (incumbent) | 79.4% |
| Joseph Mercado (D) | 20.6% |
24th House District
| Theresa Mah (D) (incumbent) | 76.1% |
| Lai Ching Ng (D) | 23.9% |
27th House District
| Justin Slaughter (D) (incumbent) | 71.6% |
| Tawana Robinson (D) | 28.4% |
29th House District
| Thaddeus Jones (D) (incumbent) | 72.3% |
| Gloria White (D) | 27.7% |
31st House District
| Mary E. Flowers (D) (incumbent) | 30.9% |
| Michael Crawford (D) | 69.1% |
35th House District
| Mary Gill (D) (incumbent) | 84.1% |
| David Dewar (D) | 15.9% |
36th House District
| Sonia Anne Khalil (D) | 42.8% |
| Rick Ryan (D) | 57.2% |
49th House District
| Hannah Bilingsley (R) | 74.1% |
| Aris Garcia (R) | 25.9% |
76th House District
| Cohen Barnes (D) | 32.1% |
| Amy Murri Briel (D) | 36.4% |
| Carolyn Zasada (D) | 31.5% |
| Liz Bishop (R) | 67.0% |
| Crystal Loughran (R) | 33.0% |
79th House District
| Robert Ellington-Snipes (D) | 11.0% |
| Dylan Mill (D) | 6.0% |
| William Morgan (D) | 45.7% |
| Genevra Walters (D) | 37.3% |
83rd House District
| Matt Hanson (D) (incumbent) | 67.8% |
| Arad Boxenbaum (D) | 32.2% |
88th House District
| Regan Deering (R) | 68.7% |
| Chuck Erickson (R) | 31.3% |
99th House District
| Kyle Moore (R) | 73.5% |
| Eric Snellgrove (R) | 26.5% |
105th House District
| Dennis Tipsword Jr. (R) (incumbent) | 69.7% |
| Donald Rients (R) | 30.3% |
107th House District
| Brad Halbrook (R) (incumbent) | 68.4% |
| Marsha Webb (R) | 31.6% |
110th House District
| Blaine Wilhour (R) (incumbent) | 78.9% |
| Matthew Hall (R) | 21.1% |
116th House District
| Dave Severin (R) (incumbent) | 67.0% |
| Angela Evans (R) | 33.0% |