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Final score: Pritzker 54.5, Rauner 38.8, McCann 4.2, Jackson 2.4

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* The Illinois State Board of Elections has posted the election’s final totals online. Click here. And click here to see the races by county if you so desire.

McCann didn’t make it to the coveted 5 percent threshold, but the Conservative Party will be an established political party in a whole lot of counties and likely in a bunch of legislative districts.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:38 pm

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Rauner not clearing 39% without rounding… wow.

Rauner was a whole “point plus” below 40%.

Rauner, personally, him, he was double-digits plus under water. That’s important to note, given the blue wave that engulfed the collars and elsewhere.

Rauner’s unlikablity made the climb harder, a divided GOP continued that steepness, then Trump, the blue wave and Pritzker running Skyhook.

That’s 38.8%… that’s so incredibly rebuking.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:48 pm
For an incumbent, that’s a severe beatdown.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:50 pm
With a victory of over 700,000 votes, Pritzker thankfully didn’t need third party help to beat Rauner. It was still a blast that McCann running got under Rauner’s skin.

Comment by Grandson of Man Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:50 pm
Well at least every statewide GOP candidate lost by a somewhat less miserable margin than the Nazi did in the 3rd congressional. That nut got 25.9%.

Congratulations IL GOP.

Comment by Chris P. Bacon Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:51 pm
–And click here to see the races by county if you so desire.–

Very informative.

The biggest takeaway is that there are dozens of Illinois counties with a very small number of voters.

Corn stalks may have ears, but they can’t vote.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:55 pm
Jackson must have a huge family to get 2.4% of the vote.

Comment by Cheryl44 Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:56 pm
Looking at these numbers, races, and I try to think how Jeanne Ives’ statement yesterday is this and nothing more…

“We will control the party and take it to irrelevancy or we will leave the party and make sure irrelevancy happens, but under our terms.”

There are districts where a Reagan Rule type, with the whole makeup of those GOP could make a difference in the future, and with a new map, how will Ives’ demands see district math to 60 and 30 when 2018 showed a fractured GOP with a motivated Democratic Party seeing Trump and social issues as “no go” to those with GOP nominations.

This rebuild of a party… it must be a big tent thinking.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:58 pm
More total votes for AG than for Gov. Guess some people just couldn’t stomach either candidate.

And both of them running behind total votes for SoS by more than 22k. Man, people love Jesse White.

Comment by lakeside Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 12:58 pm
===Man, people love Jesse White===

At least 3,120,207 of them do, yes. 68 percent. That’s just amazing.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:02 pm
The GOP statewides, less Harold and Rauner, give a great baseline to the Dem office holders and the real bottom numbers where the GOP voters vote GOP no matter what.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:04 pm
===where the GOP voters vote GOP no matter what===

Kinda like the U of I trustee votes from yesteryear.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:05 pm
==people love Jesse White.==

Jesse is the perfect voting opportunity to show all the other Dem candidates how many people were perfectly willing to cross party lines to vote for him but not them.

Comment by City Zen Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:06 pm
===Kinda like the U of I trustee votes from yesteryear.===

Love that discussion.

The beginning measure of districts.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:07 pm
==Jackson must have a huge family to get 2.4% of the vote.==

He just did a great job of mobilizing the people who feel victimized by the divorce law and child support systems.

Comment by Anon324 Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:07 pm
It’s just remarkable that more voters total took the time to vote in an (essentially) uncontested race (I couldn’t name the R for money), than in the two major match ups at the top of the ticket - especially the AG race, which was pegged to be close.

He’s obviously done a good job as SoS, but I bet Rauner (or Pritzker) wishes he could bottle a little of that Jesse White magic.

Comment by lakeside Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:12 pm
The polls proved fairly accurate, despite Rauner’s pre-election denials.

Comment by anon2 Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:21 pm
Back when I used to walk a precinct in Addison Pate used to stress U of I Trustees. Interesting measure

Comment by DuPage Saint Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:28 pm
With Rauner hovering around Senger and Dodge percentages… the percentages… that is also a matrix to consider when looking at the party’s overall health and the vacuum that exists now.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:33 pm
Shoot, I want to hear more about Jo 753’s campaign platform./s

Comment by G'Kar Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:39 pm
===hear more about Jo 753’s campaign platform===

One of his life influencers is Speed Racer http://www.7532020.com/UBoWT.htm

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:44 pm
County results for Coles and McDonough - home to EIU and WIU - illuminating. Not really surprising, but certainly illustrates the problem.

Comment by morningstar Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 1:50 pm
Two random thoughts.

1) 57885 Republicans voted for a Nazi. Not a crazy right winger, but an actual self-described Nazi received 25.9% of the vote. WTH GOP????

2) Poor Darlene Senger. She lost by 23% to someone who was running for a different job and didn’t even try to hide it very well. Ouch.

Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 2:00 pm
Kind of curious why Mary Arline Vann-Mercalf didn’t get even 1 vote. She forgot to vote for herself?

Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 2:33 pm
“The biggest takeaway is that there are dozens of Illinois counties with a very small number of voters.” There were several FB posts showing how Red (geographically) Illinois is (the old two-states-of-Illinois argument.) But then suggest to them that they’re essentially arguing for the Electoral College and watch their heads explode.

Comment by Skeptic Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 2:40 pm
“There were several FB posts showing how Red (geographically) Illinois is ”

After gutting the voting rights act, I predict the next item on the Republican’s Supremes hit list is “one man, one vote”, which was decided about the same time.

Comment by a drop in Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 2:57 pm
>He’s obviously done a good job as SoS, but I bet Rauner (or Pritzker) wishes he could bottle a little of that Jesse White magic.

I’m not sure it would take magic–just good administrative skills in selecting the right people to run state departments, filling open positions with good staff, and holding IT consultants accountable for failing to deliver systems that make things function more smoothly and efficiently. I’m old enough to remember what it was like to go renew my driver’s licences before Jesse.

Comment by Earnest Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 3:03 pm
Highest percentage of Nazi votes from Will County, then DuPage, lowest in Cook in the 3d District race. All of them too high for an Illinois Nazi.

Comment by West Side the Best Side Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 3:15 pm
===Man, people love Jesse White===

At least 3,120,207 of them do, yes. 68 percent. That’s just amazing.–

The peeps do love Jesse White. But I think this go-around he benefited from the hundreds of thousands who usually skip mid-terms and turned out to register their righteous revulsion to someone else.

Especially suburbanites. Roskam won by 18 points in 2016; he got beat by 10 points in 2018. A 28 point swing — are you kidding me?

Hultgren won in 2016 by 18 points; in a 22-point swing, he got beat by a young black woman in a district that is 86% white.

Consider the vote totals for the last few governors races:

2018 — 4.5M
2014 — 3.6M
2010 — 3.7M
2006 — 3.5M

Somewhere between 800K and a million voters who usually sit it out in mid-terms were motivated this year. Real mystery as to why.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 3:51 pm
Rich - I don’t think that the Conservative Party is now established at the Legislative or Representative District levels.

There is a little bit of question as to exactly what extent the party is established at the county level as well (it may only be for to the extent of electing precinct committeemen - at least that is what the AG’s office said in 2013, after the Green Party got 5% or more in several southern counties in the 2012 election).

Comment by titan Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 3:53 pm
I still cannot wrap my head around the fact that upwards of 100,000 people voted for the candidate formerly known as Benjamin Adam Winderweedle. 2.4% is small, but that’s a lot of people in absolute terms.

Comment by Actual Red Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 4:12 pm
I concur with titan. They are not established at any local level. There have been numerous state-wide candidates that haven’t received 5% state-wide but have received 5% in the county level that were NOT considered established in the county. Look at the 2016 results for Libertarian president, 2014 results for Libertarian candidates.

Comment by gdubya Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 4:21 pm
“Real mystery as to why.”

Rauner avoided him until the end, when he embarrassed himself on the sidelines at the Trump rally, panderin’ in his biker outfit, not even mentioned by Trump.

A fear of mine didn’t happen, that purity leftists would ruin it for Pritzker, “because he’s just another billionaire,” or a just another corporatist neoliberal Democrat or something along those lines. Maybe Rauner was so bad and extreme that this thinking was diminished.

Comment by Grandson of Man Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 4:44 pm
–Jesse is the perfect voting opportunity to show all the other Dem candidates how many people were perfectly willing to cross party lines to vote for him but not them.–

LOL, yeah, that’s the lesson, Baghdad Bob.

The Illinois GOP last month had a worse day than Custer at Little Bighorn.

But the Dems who won by only 700K or so should be concerned because Jesse won by 1.7K.

Let the word go forth, the torch has been passed, from LP to CZ, to a new generation of ding-dong bot.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 5:02 pm
Rauner did better than John Cox by .4 percent.

Comment by Archpundit Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 5:02 pm
=tha’s 38.8…incredibly rebuking=

Not to mention the 4.2

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Dec 4, 18 @ 6:42 pm
Pritzker’s numbers are worse than Mendoza’s, Raoul’s and Frerichs’. It looks like practically any Democrat could have beat Rauner. So maybe Prtizker’s money and spending did not make that much of a difference?

Comment by Grandson of Man Wednesday, Dec 5, 18 @ 7:24 am
Rauner really inspired folks to come out and vote in this midterm…to vote against him.
The SOS Office has functioned pretty well under Jesse White and people like that. The Executive branch under our last 3 Governors has been disappointing to say the least.

Comment by The Dude Abides Wednesday, Dec 5, 18 @ 9:38 am