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More election results: Rep. Schmidt declares victory over Greenwood, HD97 called for Rep. Benton (Updated x2)

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* Subscribers know more. Daily Line legislative reporter Ben Szalinski

Rep. Kevin Schmidt declared victory this morning in his St. Clair County district. He's currently up 1,845 votes. LaToya Greenwood got 94% of the vote in East St. Louis and Republicans are still able to hold the seat for two cycles in a row #twill https://t.co/jl4Qul9Ktd

— Ben Szalinski (@BenSzalinski) November 6, 2024

* Results as of 11:20

Rep. Kevin Schmidt GOP
22,670
52.1%

LaToya Greenwood DEM
20,825
47.9%

100% of precincts reporting
77.7% of expected votes counted

Speaker Welch pointed to this district as flippable in August.

* HD 97

Harry Benton wins District 97.

AP race call at 8:29 AM on Nov. 6, 2024.

Rep. Harry Benton DEM
24,571
52.1%

Gabby Shanahan GOP
22,546
47.9%

100% of precincts reporting
92.4% of expected votes counted

I’ll be updating this post throughout the day as races are called.

…Adding… Leader McCombie…

Today, Tony McCombie, Illinois House Republican Leader, released the following statement:

“Election night was a victory for House Republicans. Holding our caucus together is a testament to our grassroots operation—the heart of our team, undeterred by the most partisan gerrymandered map in the nation and exponential spending against us. Illinois voters are exhausted by decades of one-party control. House Republicans remain committed to delivering economic growth, ending corruption and putting Illinois families first.”

* …Adding… More…

posted by Isabel Miller
Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 11:31 am

Comments

  1. I notice that some downstate races haven’t been called by the media (or weren’t called until this morning). I suspect it is due to a lack of reporters available to scan the county clerk websites for results. When I went to bed at 1:00 am, I had better numbers.

    Example, these numbers were complete by midnight last night, a pretty solid victory. The Sun-Times still has it as 50-50 and not called.

    Anderson Chung
    McLean 8302 12388
    Bloomington 6285 9763
    Tazewell 5754 3553
    Woodford 432 2040
    Peoria 1304 1096

    22077 28840

    43% 57%

    Comment by Pot calling kettle Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 11:49 am

  2. “due to a lack of reporters”

    Maybe, but there’s no shortage of up to the minute high school football stories in my local paper. You would hardly know an election was taking place.

    Last election, the same paper had weeks of coverage which went into great detail. There was even a breakout-page specifically for the election which was on the front page for days prior to the election.

    This year, your local high school football team was their priority.

    Only some of this is blamed on a lack of reporters. A larger chunk of it every day is because of purposeful choices being made by these papers.

    Comment by TheInvisibleMan Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 11:54 am

  3. Pot-
    Should your Woodford County totals be flipped?

    Not a likely “D” County.

    Comment by Oldtimer Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 12:26 pm

  4. =Illinois voters are exhausted by decades of one-party control=

    She knows that the GOP will control all three branches of government, right?

    Comment by Chito Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 1:13 pm

  5. = Holding our caucus together=

    Holding Amy Grant’s seat (up by 500 votes) will be a big deal. Late money drops from the House Republican Organization and the Illinois Republican Party were huge.

    Comment by Donnie Elgin Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 1:17 pm

  6. McCombie’s failure to recruit candidates to run against Vella, Hanson, Costa Howard, Yang Rohr, Faver Dias, and Mussman allowed the House Dems to hold onto all their seats.

    The funding advantage for the HDems and the narrowed list of incumbents they had to defend means McCombie and Co. will be celebrating staying in the super minority. Whatever gets you up in the morning, I guess …

    Comment by PolOp Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 2:57 pm

  7. ===Election night was a victory for House Republicans. ===

    I thought her crowd was against participation trophies.

    Comment by Candy Dogood Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 3:51 pm

  8. =Illinois voters are exhausted by decades of one-party control=

    Uh, she knows that the voters elected 78 Democrats in the House, right? And 19 of 23 Senate seats up for election were won by Democrats?

    ===Election night was a victory for House Republicans. ===

    In July McCombie said that the HGOP would pick up 5 seats.
    In October McCombie said that the HGOP was looking at picking up 4 seats, with 2 sleepers.

    So… picking up ZERO seats is a victory?

    Comment by JoeMaddon Wednesday, Nov 6, 24 @ 4:24 pm

  9. = about 22 percent of the vote =

    So ends the Rule of 20.

    Comment by Dirty Red Thursday, Nov 7, 24 @ 6:28 am

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