Illinois 2022 Election Results

Illinois held its general election on November 8, 2022, deciding 177 legislative seats and 4 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Democrats kept their three-fifths, veto-proof majorities in both chambers and widened their House edge to 78 of 118 seats. The morning after the election, House Republican leader Jim Durkin said he would step down, and the caucus turned to Tony McCombie to replace him.
• The House gains came in the suburbs, where Gov. JB Pritzker (D) had put $8 million into the House Democrats' campaign fund and GOP legislative candidates took a walloping:
  • Matt Hanson (D) unseated Keith Wheeler (R) in House District 83 by about 7 points.
  • Nabeela Syed (D) unseated Rep. Chris Bos (R) in House District 51 by about 7 points.
  • Jenn Ladisch Douglass (D) overtook Deanne Mazzochi (R), a member of the GOP leadership team, in House District 45 as late mail ballots were counted. Mazzochi held a narrow lead the morning after the election, trailed by about 200 votes a week later, and lost by fewer than 400.
  • Mary Beth Canty (D) won House District 54, a Republican-held seat that Rep. Tom Morrison had represented.
• Republicans took back ground downstate. Kevin Schmidt (R) ousted LaToya Greenwood (D) in House District 114 in what WTTW called a rare upset, and Erica Harriss (R) unseated Sen. Kris Tharp (D) in Senate District 56 by about 2 points, trimming Senate Democrats by one seat.
• Senate Republican leader Dan McConchie (R) had to survive his own contest and did, by fewer than 400 votes in Senate District 26. In Springfield's Senate District 48, the state's most expensive legislative race, Sen. Doris Turner (D) held off Rep. Sandy Hamilton (R) by about 2 points.
• Pritzker won a second term over Darren Bailey (R) by about 13 points, leading another Democratic sweep of the statewide offices. Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D) was re-elected over Thomas DeVore (R), and Alexi Giannoulias (D) won the open secretary of state's office over Dan Brady (R).
• Every incumbent who lost in November (5 in all) appears above. Beyond the flips, 3 races finished within two points, McConchie's and Turner's among them, and 71 had no candidate from one of the major parties.
• Voters approved Amendment 1, which guarantees workers a right to unionize. Illinois amendments pass with either 60% of the votes on the question or a majority of everyone who cast a ballot. Amendment 1 drew about 59% on the question but cleared the second path.

Legislature

• House (118 seats): 73 D, 45 R before the election, 78 D, 40 R after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (59 seats): 41 D, 18 R before the election, 40 D, 19 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures