2022 Illinois Attorney General election

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2022 Illinois Attorney General election
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  2018 November 8, 20222026 
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Nominee Kwame Raoul Tom DeVore
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote2,219,4201,774,468
Percentage54.35%43.45%

2022 Illinois Attorney General election results map by county.svg
2022 Illinois Attorney General election by CD.svg
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Raoul:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
DeVore:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Tie:     40–50%     50%

Attorney General before election

Kwame Raoul
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Kwame Raoul
Democratic

The 2022 Illinois Attorney General election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Illinois. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Kwame Raoul won re-election to a second term.

Contents

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Endorsements

Results

Democratic primary results [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kwame Raoul (incumbent) 830,578 100.0%
Total votes830,578 100.0%

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

  • Tom DeVore, lawyer [6]

Eliminated in primary

Endorsements

Tom DeVore
Organizations
Steve Kim
Statewide officials
Newspapers

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [lower-alpha 1]
Margin
of error
Tom
DeVore
Steve
Kim
David
Shestokas
Undecided
Ogden & Fry (R) June 24, 2022518 (LV)± 4.4%28%27%10%35%
Ogden & Fry (R) June 11–12, 2022662 (LV)± 3.9%21%25%10%45%
Public Policy Polling (D) June 6–7, 2022677 (LV)± 3.8%20%18%3%59%

Results

Results by county
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DeVore
30-40%
40-50%
50-60%
60-70%
Kim
30-40%
40-50%
50-60% 2022 Illinois Attorney General Republican primary election results map by county.svg
Results by county
  DeVore
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  Kim
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
Republican primary results [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Thomas G. DeVore 316,726 44.21%
Republican Steve Kim248,65234.71%
Republican David Shestokas151,04521.08%
Total votes716,423 100.0%

General election

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Sabato's Crystal Ball [12] Safe DSeptember 14, 2022
Elections Daily [13] Safe DNovember 1, 2022

Endorsements

Tom DeVore (R)

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [lower-alpha 1]
Margin
of error
Kwame
Raoul (D)
Thomas
DeVore (R)
OtherUndecided
Emerson College October 20–24, 20221,000 (LV)± 3.0%47%39%6% [lower-alpha 2] 9%
Research America October 5–11, 20221,000 (RV)± 3.1%42%25%10% [lower-alpha 3] 22%

Results

2022 Illinois Attorney General election [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Kwame Raoul (incumbent) 2,219,420 54.35% -0.36%
Republican Thomas G. DeVore1,774,46843.45%+0.71%
Libertarian Daniel K. Robin89,6642.20%-0.35%
Total votes4,083,552 100.0%
Democratic hold

By congressional district

Raoul won 13 of 17 congressional districts with the remaining 4 going to DeVore, including one that elected a Democrat. [19]

DistrictRaoulDeVoreRepresentative
1st 68%30% Bobby Rush (117th Congress)
Jonathan Jackson (118th Congress)
2nd 66%32% Robin Kelly
3rd 68%30% Marie Newman (117th Congress)
Delia Ramirez (118th Congress)
4th 68%29% Chuy García
5th 68%30% Mike Quigley
6th 53%45% Sean Casten
7th 84%14% Danny Davis
8th 55%43% Raja Krishnamoorthi
9th 70%28% Jan Schakowsky
10th 60%38% Brad Schneider
11th 54%44% Bill Foster
12th 26%72% Mike Bost
13th 52%45% Nikki Budzinski
14th 52%46% Lauren Underwood
15th 28%69% Mary Miller
16th 35%63% Darin LaHood
17th 47%50% Cheri Bustos (117th Congress)
Eric Sorensen (118th Congress)

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. Robin (L) with 4%; "Someone else" with 2%
  3. Robin with 6%; "None" with 4%

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