Illinois Attorney General election, 2018

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Illinois Attorney General election, 2018
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Nominee Kwame Raoul Erika Harold
Party Democratic Republican
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Results by county

Raoul:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%

Harold:     40-50%     50-60%     60-70%     70-80%
Attorney General before election

Lisa Madigan
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Kwame Raoul
Democratic

The 2018 Illinois Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Attorney General of Illinois. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who had served since 2003, did not seek re-election to a fifth term. [1]

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Lisa Madigan American politician

Lisa Murray Madigan is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as Attorney General of the U.S. state of Illinois from 2003 to 2019, being the first woman to hold that position. She is also the stepdaughter of Michael Madigan, who has served as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1997.

Contents

Democratic primary

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Democratic candidates listed on a blank primary ballot

Candidates

Declared

Scott Drury Illinois politician

Scott Drury was a Illinois state representative for the 58th district and a Democratic candidate for Attorney General. The 58th district includes all or parts of Bannockburn, Deerfield, Glencoe, Highwood, Highland Park, Lake Bluff Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Northbrook and North Chicago.

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Declined

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Gery Chico American politician and lawyer

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Endorsements

Aaron Goldstein
Organizations
Democracy for America

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Scott Drury
Individuals

Rob Warden is a Chicago legal affairs journalist and co-founder of three organizations dedicated to exonerating the innocent and reforming criminal justice: the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, the National Registry of Exonerations at the University of California-Irvine, and Injustice Watch, a non-partisan, not-for-profit, journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality. As an investigative journalist in the 1970's, he began focusing on death penalty cases, which led to a career exposing and publicizing the injustices and misconduct in the legal system. Warden’s work was instrumental in the blanket commutation of death row cases in Illinois in 2003 and in the abolition of the Illinois death penalty in 2011.

Newspapers
Sharon Fairley
Organizations
National Organization for Women American feminist organization

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Newspapers
Renato Mariotti
U.S. Government Officials
Athletes
Entertainers
Writers
Pat Quinn
Organizations
Kwame Raoul
U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
Statewide Officials
State Senators
Local officials
Organizations
Nancy Rotering
U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
Lt. Governors
State Representatives
Local officials
Organizations
Jesse Ruiz
U.S. Executive Branch officials
U.S. Representatives
State Representatives
Local officials
Individuals
Declined to Endorse in Primary
Organizations
Endorsed All
Organizations

Polling

Poll sourceDates
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Kwame
Raoul		Pat
Quinn		Nancy
Rotering		Jesse
Ruiz		Renato
Mariotti		Sharon
Fairley		Aaron
Goldstein		Scott
Drury		OtherUndecided
Victory Research March 13–16, 20181,204± 2.8%24%26%6%4%3%8%4%10%–16%
Capitol Fax/We Ask America March 7–8, 20181,029± 3.06%15%23%6%3%3%3%2%3%–43%
Southern Illinois University February 19–25, 2018472± 4.5%22%18%5%4%3%3%3%2%1%39%

Results

Results by county: Raoul--40-50% Raoul--<40% Quinn--<40% Quinn--40-50% Quinn--50-60% Quinn--60-70% Rotering--<40% Illinois Attorney General Democratic primary, 2018.svg
Results by county:
  Raoul—40–50%
  Raoul—<40%
  Quinn—<40%
  Quinn—40–50%
  Quinn—50–60%
  Quinn—60–70%
  Rotering—<40%
Democratic primary results
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kwame Raoul 374,66730.2
Democratic Pat Quinn 340,16327.4
Democratic Sharon Fairley156,07012.6
Democratic Nancy Rotering115,9749.3
Democratic Scott Drury 98,2467.9
Democratic Jesse Ruiz67,7065.5
Democratic Renato Mariotti 49,8914.0
Democratic Aaron Goldstein37,9873.1
Total votes1,159,701100

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Endorsements

Erika Harold
U.S. Representatives [85]
Illinois State Senators [87]
Illinois State Representatives [87]
Local Officeholders
  • Kane County State's Attorney Joseph McMahon [85] [86]
Organizations
Newspapers

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Erika
Harold		Gary
Grasso		Undecided
Southern Illinois University February 19–25, 2018259± 6.0%18%14%65%

Results

Results by county: Harold--80-90% Harold--70-80% Harold--60-70% Harold--50-60% Tie Grasso--50-60% Illinois Attorney General Republican primary, 2018.svg
Results by county:
  Harold—80–90%
  Harold—70–80%
  Harold—60–70%
  Harold—50–60%
  Tie
  Grasso—50–60%
Republican primary results
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Erika Harold 378,70759.2
Republican Gary Grasso261,50940.8
Total votes620,028100

Third party and independents

Candidates

Declared

Potential

General election

Endorsements

Kwame Raoul (D)
Former U.S. Executive Branch officials
US Senators
US Representatives
Statewide officials
County officials
Local officials
  • Chris Kennedy, Former Chair of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and former candidate for Governor [105]
Organizations
Newspapers
Erika Harold (R)
Organizations
Newspapers

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Kwame
Raoul (D)		Erika
Harold (R)		Bubba
Harsy (L)		Undecided
Victory Research September 27 – October 2, 20181,208± 2.8%44%33%5%18%
Southern Illinois University September 24–29, 2018715± 3.7%36%26%–39%
Research America Inc. September 5–13, 20181,024± 3.1%43%32%4% [122] 21%
We Ask America June 9–11, 2018600± 4.0%44%35%–21%

Results

Illinois Attorney General election, 2018 [123]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kwame Raoul54
Republican Erika Harold43
Libertarian Bubba Harsy2
Total votes100

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