United States presidential elections in Illinois

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Presidential elections in Illinois

Number of elections| 51
Voted Democratic| 26
Voted Republican| 24
Voted Democratic-Republican| 2
Voted other| 0
Voted for winning candidate| 42
Voted for losing candidate| 10

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Illinois, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1818, Illinois has participated in every U.S. presidential election.

From 1896 to 1996, Illinois was a bellwether state, voting for the winner of the presidential election 24 of 26 times, the exceptions being 1916 and 1976. Since 1992, Illinois has consistently backed Democratic candidates.

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

## Elections from 1864 to present

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2024 | Donald Trump | 2,449,079 | 43.47 | Kamala Harris | 3,062,863 | 54.37 | - |  |  | 19 |
2020[1] | Joe Biden | 3,471,915 | 57.54 | Donald Trump | 2,446,891 | 40.55 | - |  |  | 20 |
2016[2] | Donald Trump[b] | 2,146,015 | 38.36 | Hillary Clinton | 3,090,729 | 55.24 | - |  |  | 20 |
2012[3] | Barack Obama | 3,019,512 | 57.60 | Mitt Romney | 2,135,216 | 40.73 | - |  |  | 20 |
2008[4] | Barack Obama | 3,419,348 | 61.92 | John McCain | 2,031,179 | 36.78 | - |  |  | 21 |
2004[5] | George W. Bush | 2,345,946 | 44.48 | John Kerry | 2,891,550 | 54.82 | - |  |  | 21 |
2000[6] | George W. Bush[b] | 2,019,421 | 42.58 | Al Gore | 2,589,026 | 54.60 | - |  |  | 22 |
1996[7] | Bill Clinton | 2,341,744 | 54.32 | Bob Dole | 1,587,021 | 36.81 | Ross Perot | 346,408 | 8.03 | 22 |
1992 | Bill Clinton | 2,453,350 | 48.58 | George H. W. Bush | 1,734,096 | 34.34 | Ross Perot | 840,515 | 16.64 | 22 |
1988 | George H. W. Bush | 2,310,939 | 50.69 | Michael Dukakis | 2,215,940 | 48.60 | - |  |  | 24 |
1984 | Ronald Reagan | 2,707,103 | 56.17 | Walter Mondale | 2,086,499 | 43.30 | - |  |  | 24 |
1980 | Ronald Reagan | 2,358,049 | 49.65 | Jimmy Carter | 1,981,413 | 41.72 | John B. Anderson | 346,754 | 7.30 | 26 |
1976 | Jimmy Carter | 2,271,295 | 48.13 | Gerald Ford | 2,364,269 | 50.10 | - |  |  | 26 |
1972 | Richard Nixon | 2,788,179 | 59.03 | George McGovern | 1,913,472 | 40.51 | - |  |  | 26 |
1968 | Richard Nixon | 2,174,774 | 47.08 | Hubert Humphrey | 2,039,814 | 44.15 | George Wallace | 390,958 | 8.46 | 26 |
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 2,796,833 | 59.47 | Barry Goldwater | 1,905,946 | 40.53 | - |  |  | 26 |
1960 | John F. Kennedy | 2,377,846 | 49.98 | Richard Nixon | 2,368,988 | 49.80 | - |  |  | 27 |
1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 2,623,327 | 59.52 | Adlai Stevenson II | 1,775,682 | 40.29 | T. Coleman Andrews/
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1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 2,457,327 | 54.84 | Adlai Stevenson II | 2,013,920 | 44.94 | - |  |  | 27 |
1948 | Harry S. Truman | 1,994,715 | 50.07 | Thomas E. Dewey | 1,961,103 | 49.22 | Strom Thurmond | - |  | 28 |
1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2,079,479 | 51.52 | Thomas E. Dewey | 1,939,314 | 48.05 | - |  |  | 28 |
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2,149,934 | 50.97 | Wendell Willkie | 2,047,240 | 48.54 | - |  |  | 29 |
1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2,282,999 | 57.70 | Alf Landon | 1,570,393 | 39.69 | - |  |  | 29 |
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1,882,304 | 55.23 | Herbert Hoover | 1,432,756 | 42.04 | - |  |  | 29 |
1928 | Herbert Hoover | 1,769,141 | 56.93 | Al Smith | 1,313,817 | 42.28 | - |  |  | 29 |
1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 1,453,321 | 58.84 | John W. Davis | 576,975 | 23.36 | Robert M. La Follette | 432,027 | 17.49 | 29 |
1920 | Warren G. Harding | 1,420,480 | 67.81 | James M. Cox | 534,395 | 25.51 | Parley P. Christensen | 49,630 | 2.37 | 29 |
1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 950,229 | 43.34 | Charles E. Hughes | 1,152,549 | 52.56 | - |  |  | 29 |
1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 405,048 | 35.34 | Theodore Roosevelt | 386,478 | 33.72 | William H. Taft | 253,593 | 22.13 | 29 |
1908 | William H. Taft | 629,932 | 54.53 | William Jennings Bryan | 450,810 | 39.02 | - |  |  | 27 |
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | 632,645 | 58.77 | Alton B. Parker | 327,606 | 30.43 | - |  |  | 27 |
1900 | William McKinley | 597,985 | 52.83 | William Jennings Bryan | 503,061 | 44.44 | - |  |  | 24 |
1896 | William McKinley | 607,130 | 55.66 | William Jennings Bryan | 465,613 | 42.68 | - |  |  | 24 |
1892 | Grover Cleveland | 426,281 | 48.79 | Benjamin Harrison | 399,288 | 45.70 | James B. Weaver | 22,207 | 2.54 | 24 |
1888 | Benjamin Harrison[b] | 370,475 | 49.54 | Grover Cleveland | 348,351 | 46.58 | - |  |  | 22 |
1884 | Grover Cleveland | 312,351 | 46.43 | James G. Blaine | 337,469 | 50.17 | - |  |  | 22 |
1880 | James A. Garfield | 318,036 | 51.11 | Winfield S. Hancock | 277,321 | 44.56 | James B. Weaver | 26,358 | 4.24 | 21 |
1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 278,232 | 50.20 | Samuel J. Tilden | 258,611 | 46.66 | - |  |  | 21 |
1872 | Ulysses S. Grant | 241,936 | 56.27 | Horace Greeley | 184,884 | 43.00 | - |  |  | 21 |
1868 | Ulysses S. Grant | 250,304 | 55.7 | Horatio Seymour | 199,116 | 44.3 | - |  |  | 16 |
1864 | Abraham Lincoln | 189,512 | 54.4 | George B. McClellan | 158,724 | 45.6 | - |  |  | 16 |

## Election of 1860

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The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.

Year  | Winner (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Electoral
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1860 | Abraham Lincoln | 172,171  | 50.7  | Stephen A. Douglas | 160,215  | 47.2  | John C. Breckinridge | 2,331  | 0.7  | John Bell | 4,914  | 1.4  | 11

## Elections from 1828 to 1856

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Year  | Winner (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Other national
candidates[a] | Votes  | Percent  | Electoral
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1856 | James Buchanan | 105,528 | 44.09 | John C. Frémont | 96,275 | 40.23 | Millard Fillmore | 37,531 | 15.68 | 11 |
1852 | Franklin Pierce | 80,378 | 51.87 | Winfield Scott | 64,733 | 41.77 | John P. Hale | 9,863 | 6.36 | 11 |
1848 | Zachary Taylor | 52,853 | 42.42 | Lewis Cass | 55,952 | 44.91 | Martin Van Buren | 15,702 | 12.6 | 9 |
1844 | James K. Polk | 58,795 | 53.91 | Henry Clay | 45,854 | 42.05 | - |  |  | 9 |
1840 | William Henry Harrison | 45,574 | 48.91 | Martin Van Buren | 47,441 | 50.92 | - |  |  | 5 |
1836 | Martin Van Buren | 18,369 | 54.69 | William Henry Harrison | 15,220 | 45.31 | various[d] |  |  | 5 |
1832 | Andrew Jackson | 14,609 | 68.01 | Henry Clay | 6,745 | 31.40 | William Wirt | 97 | 0.45 | 5 |
1828 | Andrew Jackson | 9,560 | 67.22 | John Quincy Adams | 4,662 | 32.78 | - |  |  | 3 |

## Election of 1824

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The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain.

Year  | Winner (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Electoral
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1824 | Andrew Jackson | 1,272 | 27.23 | John Quincy Adams | 1,516 | 32.46 | Henry Clay | 1,036 | 22.18 | William H. Crawford | 847 | 18.13 | 3 (Electoral College split, 2 for Jackson and 1 for Adams)

## Election of 1820

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In the election of 1820, incumbent President James Monroe ran effectively unopposed, winning all electoral votes (including the three electoral votes from Illinois) except one electoral vote in New Hampshire. The popular vote was primarily directed to filling the office of vice president.

## See also

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* Elections in Illinois

## Notes

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1. ^ a b For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
2. ^ a b c Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
3. ^ Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
4. ^ Three other candidates ran and received electoral votes nationally as part of the unsuccessful Whig strategy to defeat Martin Van Buren by running four candidates with local appeal in different regions of the country. The others were Hugh Lawson White, Daniel Webster, and Willie Person Mangum. None of these candidates appeared on the ballot in Illinois.

## References

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1. ^ "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times. November 3, 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
2. ^ 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
3. ^ 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
4. ^ 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
5. ^ "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
6. ^ "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
7. ^ "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

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Elections in Illinois

By year|

* 1936
* 1938
* 1940
* 1942
* 1944
* 1946
* 1948
* 1950
* 1952
* 1954
* 1956
* 1958
* 1960
* 1962
* 1964
* 1966
* 1968
* 1969
* 1970
* 1972
* 1974
* 1976
* 1978
* 1980
* 1982
* 1984
* 1986
* 1998
* 1990
* 1992
* 1994
* 1996
* 1998
* 2000
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* 2004
* 2006
* 2008
* 2010
* 2012
* 2014
* 2016
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Presidential|

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* 1840
* 1844
* 1848
* 1852
* 1856
* 1860
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* 1868
* 1872
* 1876
* 1880
* 1884
* 1888
* 1892
* 1896
* 1900
* 1904
* 1908
* 1912
* 1916
* 1920
* 1924
* 1928
* 1932
* 1936
* 1940
* 1944
* 1948
* 1952
* 1956
* 1960
* 1964
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* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
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* 1988
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* 2004
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U.S. House|

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Special|

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