2012 Cook County, Illinois, elections

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2012 Cook County, Illinois, elections
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Turnout70.59%

The Cook County, Illinois, general election was held on November 6, 2012. [1]

Contents

Primaries were held March 20, 2012. [2]

Elections were held for Clerk of the Circuit Court, Recorder of Deeds, State's Attorney, all three seats on the Board of Review, three seats on the Water Reclamation District Board, and judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Election information

2012 was a presidential election year in the United States. The primaries and general elections for Cook County races coincided with those for federal races (President and House) and those for state elections.

Voter turnout

Voter turnout in Cook County during the primaries was 24.03%, with 644,701 ballots cast. Among these, 440,873 Democratic, 200,750 Republican, 112 Green, and 2,966 nonpartisan primary ballots were cast. [3] [4] The city of Chicago saw 24.46% turnout, its lowest turnout for a presidential primary on record (with the records dating back to 1942). [3] [4] [5] [6] Suburban Cook County saw 23.63% turnout. [3] [4]

The general election saw 70.59% turnout, with 2,030,563 ballots cast. Chicago saw 73.01% turnout and suburban Cook County saw 70.70% turnout. [7] [8]

Clerk of the Circuit Court

2012 Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County election
←  2008 November 6, 2012 2016  →
Turnout63.74% [7] [8]
  The honorable Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court Cook County, speaking at the GTF Launch and Forum (2) (cropped).png 3x4.svg
Candidate Dorothy A. Brown Diane Shapiro
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote1,291,499541,973
Percentage70.44%29.56%
Clerk before election

Dorothy A. Brown
Democratic

Elected Clerk

Dorothy A. Brown
Democratic

In the 2012 Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County election, incumbent third-term Clerk Dorothy A. Brown, a Democrat, was reelected.

Primaries

Democratic

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Democratic primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Dorothy A. Brown (incumbent) 269,781 67.44
Democratic Ricardo Muñoz 130,22132.56
Total votes400,002 100

Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary. [2] The Republican Party ultimately nominated Diane S. Shapiro.

General election

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Dorothy A. Brown (incumbent) 1,291,499 70.44
Republican Diane S. Shapiro541,97329.56
Total votes1,833,472 100

Recorder of Deeds

2012 Cook County Recorder of Deeds election
←  2008 November 6, 2012 2016  →
Turnout61.88% [7] [8]
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Candidate Karen Yarbrough Sherri Griffith
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote1,313,967466,038
Percentage73.82%26.18%
Recorder of Deeds before election

Eugene Moore
Democratic

Elected Recorder of Deeds

Karen Yarbrough
Democratic

In the 2012 Cook County Recorder of Deeds election, incumbent Recorder of Deeds Eugene Moore, a Democrat, did not seek reelection. Moore had served as Recorder of Deeds since 1999. [9] Karen Yarbrough was elected to succeed him.

Primaries

Democratic

Cook County Recorder of Deeds Democratic primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Karen A. Yarbrough 343,603 100
Total votes343,603 100
Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary. [2] The Republican Party ultimately nominated Sherri Griffith.

General election

Cook County Recorder of Deeds election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Karen A. Yarbrough 1,313,967 73.82
Republican Sherri Griffith466,03826.18
Total votes1,780,005 100

State's Attorney

2012 Cook County State's Attorney election
←  2008 November 6, 2012 2016  →
Turnout64.39% [7] [8]
  Anita Alvarez 2008 (cropped).jpg 3x4.svg
Candidate Anita Alvarez Lori S. Yokoyama
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote1,427,145421,810
Percentage77.05%22.77%
State's Attorney before election

Anita Alvarez
Democratic

Elected State's Attorney

Anita Alvarez
Democratic

In the 2012 Cook County State's Attorney election, incumbent first-term State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, a Democrat, was reelected.

Only Democrats had held this office ever since Richard A. Devine unseated Republican Jack O'Malley in 1996. [10]

Primaries

Democratic

Cook County State’s Attorney Democratic primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Anita Alvarez (incumbent) 343,555 100
Total votes343,555 100

Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary. [2] The Republican Party ultimately nominated Lori S. Yokoyama.

General election

Cook County State’s Attorney election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Anita Alvarez (incumbent) 1,427,145 77.05
Republican Lori S. Yokoyama421,81022.77
Write-in Others3,3200.18
Total votes1,852,275 100

Cook County Board of Review

2012 Cook County Board of Review election
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2 of 3 seats on the Cook County Board of Review
2 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
 
Party Democratic Republican
Seats before21
Seats after21
Seat changeSteady2.svgSteady2.svg
Seats up21
Races won21

In the 2012 Cook County Board of Review election, all three seats, two Democratic-held and one Republican-held, were up for election. All incumbents won reelection.

The Cook County Board of Review has its three seats rotate the length of terms. In a staggered fashion (in which no two seats have coinciding two-year terms), the seats rotate between two consecutive four-year terms and a two-year term. [11] This was the first year since 2002 that all three seats were coincidingly up for election.

As these were the first elections held following the 2010 United States Census, the seats faced redistricting before this election.


1st district

Incumbent first-term member Dan Patlak, a Republican first elected in 2010, was reelected. This election was to a four-year term. [11]

Primaries

Democratic
Cook County Board of Review 1st district Democratic primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Casey Thomas Griffin 71,168 100
Total votes71,168 100
Republican
Cook County Board of Review 1st district Republican primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Dan Patlak (incumbent) 59,778 53.68
Republican Sean M. Morrison 51,57746.32
Total votes111,355 100

General election

Cook County Board of Review 1st district election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Dan Patlak (incumbent) 316,190 51.52
Democratic Casey Thomas Griffin297,51748.48
Total votes613,707 100

2nd district

Incumbent member Michael Cabonargi, a Democrat appointed in 2011 after Joseph Berrios resigned to assume office as Cook County Assessor, [12] was reelected to a full term, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election. This election was to a four-year term.

Primaries

Democratic
Cook County Board of Review 2nd district Democratic primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Michael Cabonargi (incumbent) 88,990 100
Total votes88,990 100
Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary. [2]

General election

Cook County Board of Review 2nd district election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Michael Cabonargi (incumbent) 404,100 100
Total votes404,100 100

3rd district

Incumbent second-term member Larry Rogers, Jr., a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election. Rogers had last been reelected in 2008. This election was to a two-year term.

Primaries

Democratic
Cook County Board of Review 3rd district Democratic primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Larry Rogers, Jr. (incumbent) 170,821 100
Total votes170,821 100
Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary. [2]

General election

Cook County Board of Review 3rd district election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Larry Rogers, Jr. (incumbent) 584,624 100
Total votes584,624 100

Water Reclamation District Board

2012 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago election
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3 of 9 seats on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
5 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party Democratic Republican Green
Seats before900
Seats after900
Seat changeSteady2.svgSteady2.svgSteady2.svg
Seats up300
Races won300

In the 2012 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago election, three of the nine seats on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago board were up for election in an at-large election.

Incumbent Democrats Debra Shore and Patricia Horton sought reelection. [13] [14] Horton failed to garner renomination, thus losing reelection.

Shore won reelection. Joining Shore in winning the general election were Democrats Kari K. Steele [15] and Patrick Daley Thompson.

Primaries

Democratic

Water Reclamation District Board election Democratic primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Debra Shore (incumbent) 194,936 21.05
Democratic Kari K. Steele 182,369 19.70
Democratic Patrick Daley Thompson 162,329 17.53
Democratic Patricia Young129,67014.01
Democratic Patricia Horton128,43213.87
Democratic Stella B. Black125,14713.52
Write-in Others2,9680.32
Total votes925,851 100

Republican

Water Reclamation District Board election Republican primary [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Harold "Noonie" Ward 124,643 100
Total votes124,643 100

General election

Water Reclamation District Board election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Debra Shore (incumbent) 1,071,670 26.34
Democratic Kari K. Steele 919,841 22.61
Democratic Patrick Daley Thompson 893,178 21.96
Republican Harold "Noonie" Ward334,2078.22
Republican Carl Segvich341,6038.40
Green Dave Ehrlich200,9534.94
Green Karen Roothaan189,5054.66
Green Nasrin R. Khalili117,0892.88
Total votes4,068,046 100

Judicial elections

12 judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County were up for partisan elections due to vacancies. [1] 56 Circuit Court judgeships were up for retention elections. [16]

23 subcircuit court judgeships were also up for partisan elections due to vacancies. [1] Multiple subcircuit court judgeships were also up for retention elections. [17]

Other elections

Coinciding with the primaries, elections were held to elect both the Democratic and Republican committeemen for the wards of Chicago. [18]

See also

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