Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2018)

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2018 Cook County elections
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Election dates
Filing deadline: December 4, 2017
Primary election: March 20, 2018
General election: November 6, 2018
Election stats
Offices up: County commission president, County commissioner, County assessor, County clerk, County sheriff, County treasurer, County board of review commissioner, County water reclamation district board member, Circuit court judgeships, Subcircuit court judgeships
Total seats up: 65
Election type: Partisan
Other municipal elections
U.S. municipal elections, 2018
Cook County, Illinois, held general elections for county commission president, county commissioner, county assessor, county clerk, county sheriff, county treasurer, county board of review commissioner, county water reclamation district board member, circuit court judgeships, and subcircuit court judgeships on November 6, 2018. If a race had multiple candidates for a party nomination, a primary was held on March 20, 2018. The deadline for candidates to file to run in this election was December 4, 2017.

Elections

Commission

President

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Toni Preckwinkle (i)
Democratic Party Bob Fioretti

District 1

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Richard Boykin (i)[1]
Democratic Party Brandon Johnson[2]

District 2

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Lupe Aguirre
Democratic Party Dennis Deer
Democratic Party Eddie Johnson
Democratic Party Paul Montes II
Democratic Party Darryl Smith

District 3

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Joshua Gray
Democratic Party Patricia Horton
Democratic Party Horace Howard
Democratic Party Bill Lowry
Democratic Party Erick Nickerson
Democratic Party Charise Williams
Democratic Party Steven Wolfe

Republican primary

Republican Party George Blakemore

District 4

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Stanley Moore (i)
Democratic Party Gaylon Alcaraz
Democratic Party Maria Barlow
Democratic Party Marcel Bright

District 5

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Deborah Sims (i)
Democratic Party Timothy Parker
Democratic Party Audrey Tanksley

District 6

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Patricia Joan Murphy[2]
Democratic Party Louis Presta[2]
Democratic Party Donna Miller[2]

District 7

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Alma Anaya
Democratic Party Angeles Sandoval

District 8

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Luis Arroyo Jr. (i)

Republican primary

Republican Party Renne Chavez
Republican Party Walter Zarnecki

District 9

General election

General election candidates

Republican primary

Republican Party Peter Silvestri (i)

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Frank McPartlin

District 10

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Bridget Gainer (i)
Democratic Party Mary Kosiak

District 11

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party John Daley (i)

Republican primary

Republican Party Steven Graves
Republican Party Carl Segvich

District 12

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party John Fritchey (i)[2]
Democratic Party Bridget Degnen[2]

District 13

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Larry Suffredin (i)
Democratic Party Bushra Amiwala
Democratic Party Daniel Foster

Republican primary

Republican Party Chris Hanusiak

District 14

General election

General election candidates

Republican primary

Republican Party Gregg Goslin (i)[2]

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Scott Britton[2]

District 15

General election

General election candidates


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Republican primary

Republican Party Timothy Schneider (i)[2]

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Kevin Morrison[2]
Democratic Party Ravi Raju[2]

District 16

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Jeffrey Tobolski (i)

District 17

General election

General election candidates

Republican primary

Republican Party Sean Morrison (i)

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Abdelnasser Rashid

Board of review

District 2

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Michael Cabonargi (i)

District 3

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Larry Rogers Jr. (i)

Water reclamation district board

Full six-year term (three seats)

General election

Water Reclamation District Board

  • Incumbents are marked with an (i) after their name.
Office Democratic Party Democratic Republican Party Republican Other
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (3 seats)

Green check mark transparent.pngDebra Shore (i)
Green check mark transparent.pngKari Steele (i)
Green check mark transparent.pngMarcelino Garcia

R. Cary Capparelli
Shundar Lin

Christopher Anthony (Green Party)
Karen Roothaan (Green Party)
Tammie Vinson (Green Party)


Democratic primary

Democratic Party Martin Durkan (i)
Democratic Party Debra Shore (i)
Democratic Party Kari Steele (i)
Democratic Party Marcelino Garcia

Republican primary

Republican Party R. Cary Capparelli
Republican Party Shundar Lin

Green primary

Green Party Christopher Anthony
Green Party Karen Roothaan
Green Party Tammie Vinson

Unexpired two-year term (1 seat)

This seat was on the ballot following Cynthia Santos' appointment to the Illinois Pollution Control Board in 2016. David Walsh was appointed to her vacated seat until the 2018 election.[3]

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Kimberly Neely Dubuclet

Green primary

Green Party Rachel Wales

Unexpired two-year term (Bradford vacancy) (1 seat)

This unexpired seat became available after Timothy Bradford's death three days before the filing deadline. No candidates appeared on the official primary ballot. Write-in candidate vote counts were certified on April 10, 2018, with Cam Davis (D) and Geoffrey Cubbage (Green Party) making the general election ballot.[4]

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Frank Avila Democratic Party
Sergio Bocanegra Democratic Party
Karen Bond Democratic Party
Joe Cook Democratic Party
Cam Davis Democratic Party
Simon Gordon Democratic Party
Sharon Waller Democratic Party

Green primary

Geoffrey Cubbage Green Party

Assessor

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Joseph Berrios (i)
Democratic Party Frederick Kaegi
Democratic Party Andrea Raila

Clerk

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Karen Yarbrough

Sheriff

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Thomas Dart (i)

Treasurer

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Maria Pappas (i)[2]
Democratic Party Peter Gariepy[2]

Judicial

Cook Circuit

Partisan election

Brewer vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party John Maher
Democratic Party Kathryn Maloney Vahey
Democratic Party Oran Whiting
Democratic Party Lisa Copland - Removed from ballot[5]

Clay vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Jonathan Green
Democratic Party Kathaleen Lanahan
Democratic Party Michael O'Malley
Democratic Party Lori Roper

Dooling vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Corri Fetman
Democratic Party Timothy Leeming
Democratic Party Tom Sianis

Egan vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Rosa Silva

Dunford vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Thomas McGuire

Flanagan vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Keely Patricia Hillison
Democratic Party Preston Jones Jr.
Democratic Party Ioana Salajanu
Democratic Party Amanda Pillsbury

Hartigan vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Cecilia Horan (i)
Democratic Party Keith Spence

Jordan vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Clare Quish (i)
Democratic Party Jerry Barrido
Democratic Party Patrick John

McGinnis vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Peter Gonzalez
Democratic Party Brian Sexton
Democratic Party Bradley Trowbridge

Rooney vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Jack Hagerty
Democratic Party Mable Taylor

Cook Subcircuits

1st Subcircuit - Hambright vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Litricia Payne
Democratic Party Erika Orr

2nd Subcircuit - Lampkin vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Fredrick Bates
Democratic Party Tiana Blakely

2nd Subcircuit - Laws vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Adrienne Davis
Democratic Party William Laws

2nd Subcircuit - Rhodes vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Toya Harvey
Democratic Party Tiesha Smith

2nd Subcircuit - J. Turner vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Ieshia Gray
Democratic Party Travis Richardson

2nd Subcircuit - Willis vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Sheree Henry
Democratic Party Ubi O'Neal
Democratic Party Debra Seaton

2nd Subcircuit - V. Turner vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Devlin Schoop
Democratic Party Arthur Wesley Willis

3rd Subcircuit - Delehanty vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Kevin Cunningham
Democratic Party Michael Hayes
Democratic Party Patrick Stanton

4th Subcircuit - Davy vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Caroline Golden
Democratic Party David Navarro

4th Subcircuit - Riley vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Elizabeth Ciaccia-Lezza
Democratic Party Danny Collins
Democratic Party John O'Meara
Democratic Party Martin Reggi

5th Subcircuit - Banks vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Gwendolyn Anderson
Democratic Party Gino Betts
Democratic Party Yvonne Coleman
Democratic Party Rhonda Sallee

5th Subcircuit - Jones vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party David Kelly
Democratic Party Jenetia Marshall
Democratic Party Marian Perkins

5th Subcircuit - Washington vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Robert Harris (i)
Democratic Party Shay Allen
Democratic Party Mary Melchor

6th Subcircuit - Chevere vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Kent Delgado
Democratic Party David Herrera
Democratic Party Sean Patrick Kelly

6th Subcircuit - Cooke vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Charles Beach (i)
Democratic Party Edward Underhill
Democratic Party Andrea Webber

6th Subcircuit - Lopez Cepero vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Stephanie Miller (i)
Democratic Party Linda Perez

8th Subcircuit - Fabri vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Robin Shoffner (i)
Democratic Party John Benson
Democratic Party Stephen Feldman
Democratic Party Bonnie McGrath
Democratic Party Jamie Shapiro

8th Subcircuit - Liu vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Athena Farmakis
Democratic Party Michael Forti
Democratic Party Cyrus Hosseini
Democratic Party Lindsay Huge

8th Subcircuit - Pethers vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Rishi Agrawal
Democratic Party Mike Mackoff
Democratic Party Jeanne Wrenn

10th Subcircuit - O'Neill vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Stephanie Saltouros (i)
Democratic Party Gwyn Ward Brown
Democratic Party Lorraine Murphy

10th Subcircuit - Suriano vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Gerald Cleary (i)
Democratic Party Noreen Connolly
Democratic Party Colleen Daly
Democratic Party Thomas Gabryszewski
Democratic Party Jill Quinn

11th Subcircuit - Kennedy vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Joanne F. Rosado (i)
Democratic Party Scott Frankel

12th Subcircuit - Maki vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Joel Chupack
Democratic Party Thomas Molitor
Democratic Party Carmine Trombetta

Republican primary

Republican Party Alan Jacob
Republican Party David Studenroth

13th Subcircuit - Crane vacancy

General election

General election candidates


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Democratic primary

Democratic Party Kay Steffen

Republican primary

Republican Party Susanne Groebner
Republican Party Gary Seyring

13th Subcircuit - Lawrence vacancy

General election

"General election candidates


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Democratic primary

Democratic Party Shannon O'Malley

Republican primary

Republican Party Michael Gerber (i)
Republican Party Daniel Fitzgerald

13th Subcircuit - O'Donnell vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Samuel Betar

Republican primary

Republican Party Christine Svenson

14th Subcircuit - Garcia vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Marina Ammendola
Democratic Party Beatriz Frausto-Sandoval

15th Subcircuit - Scully vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Michael Barrett
Democratic Party Ashonta Rice-Akiwowo

15th Subcircuit - Zelezinski vacancy

General election

General election candidates

Democratic primary

Democratic Party Scott McKenna
Democratic Party Anthony Swanagan

Republican primary

Republican Party Karla Fiaoni

Retention elections

Cook Circuit - Retain Flanagan

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Jacobius

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Lubin

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Agran

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Bartkowicz

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Wright

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Haberkorn

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Varga

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Maras

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Flynn

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Karkula

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Slattery-Boyle

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Brosnahan

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Coghlan

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Gorman

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Joan O'Brien

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Roti

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Sheehan

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Walker

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Brennan

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Dickler

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Flannigan

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Howard

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Marisie

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain McGing

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain McHale

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain James P. Murphy

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Thomas W. Murphy

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Ocasio

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Roberts

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Shelley

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Gubin

General election

Deborah J. Gubin filed for retention, but withdrew before the general election.[6][7]

Cook Circuit - Retain Gamrath

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Propes

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Brewer

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Schleifer

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Allen

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Reddick

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain MacCarthy

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Jean-Baptiste

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Clancy

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Scannicchio

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Marsalek

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Leeming

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Axelrood

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Boyd

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Degnan

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Ehrlich

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Gallagher

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Gamboney

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Hayes

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Kelley

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Lewis

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Maloney

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Marino

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Mullen

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Jessica O'Brien

General election

Jessica A. O'Brien filed for retention, but resigned her seat before the general election. The retention election was canceled.[8]

Cook Circuit - Retain O'Malley

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Pavlus

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Ramirez

General election

General election candidates

Cook Circuit - Retain Santiago

General election

General election candidates

Additional elections on the ballot

See also: Illinois elections, 2018

About the county

See also: Cook County, Illinois

The county government of Cook County is located in Chicago, Illinois. The county was first established in 1831. It covers a total of 946 square miles of land in northeast Illinois. As of 2010, its population was 5,194,675.

County government

See also: Government of Cook County, Illinois

Cook County is overseen by a 17-member board of commissioners. Each commissioner is elected by district to a four-year term. Residents also elect a three-member board of review, county assessor, state's attorney, county sheriff, clerk of the circuit court, county clerk, county treasurer, and county recorder.

Demographics

The following table displays demographic data provided by the United States Census Bureau.

Demographic Data for Cook County, Illinois
Cook County Illinois
Population 5,194,675 12,830,632
Land area (sq mi) 944 55,512
Race and ethnicity**
White 56.7% 71.5%
Black/African American 23.4% 14.2%
Asian 7.3% 5.5%
Native American 0.3% 0.3%
Pacific Islander 0% 0%
Two or more 2.7% 2.6%
Hispanic/Latino 25.3% 17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate 87.1% 89.2%
College graduation rate 38.8% 34.7%
Income
Median household income $64,660 $65,886
Persons below poverty level 14.4% 12.5%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2010). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2014-2019).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.


Pivot Counties

See also: Pivot Counties by state

Eleven of 102 Illinois counties—10.8 percent—are Pivot Counties. These are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008
County Trump margin of victory in 2016 Obama margin of victory in 2012 Obama margin of victory in 2008
Alexander County, Illinois 8.30% 13.65% 12.62%
Carroll County, Illinois 26.69% 1.49% 4.81%
Fulton County, Illinois 14.93% 11.04% 21.33%
Henderson County, Illinois 28.43% 12.25% 17.67%
Henry County, Illinois 20.99% 3.08% 7.74%
Jo Daviess County, Illinois 14.64% 1.16% 10.49%
Knox County, Illinois 2.91% 17.37% 19.89%
Mercer County, Illinois 20.36% 7.39% 11.91%
Putnam County, Illinois 19.92% 1.82% 15.64%
Warren County, Illinois 16.50% 5.47% 8.08%
Whiteside County, Illinois 6.18% 17.02% 17.56%

In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton (D) won Illinois with 55.8 percent of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 38.8 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Illinois voted Republican 50 percent of the time and Democratic 50 percent of the time. Illinois voted Democratic in all five elections from 2000 to 2016.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state House districts in Illinois. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party held that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.[9][10]

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 75 out of 118 state House districts in Illinois with an average margin of victory of 39.2 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 76 out of 118 state House districts in Illinois with an average margin of victory of 42.1 points. Clinton won 13 districts controlled by Republicans heading into the 2018 elections.
In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 43 out of 118 state House districts in Illinois with an average margin of victory of 15 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 42 out of 118 state House districts in Illinois with an average margin of victory of 22.1 points. Trump won four districts controlled by Democrats heading into the 2018 elections.

See also

Cook County, Illinois Illinois Municipal government Other local coverage
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