2014 United States Senate election in Illinois


The 2014 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Illinois, concurrently with the election of the Governor of Illinois, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin ran for re-election to a fourth term. He was unopposed in the Democratic primary. The Republicans nominated State Senator and perennial candidate for higher office Jim Oberweis.
Durbin defeated Oberweis and Libertarian Sharon Hansen with 53.5% of the vote, the smallest vote total of any of his Senate elections.

Election information

The primaries and general elections coincided with those for congress and those for state offices.

Background

was first elected to the Senate in 1996 and was re-elected by increasingly larger margins in 2002 and 2008. He has served as Senate Majority Whip since 2007 and sought a fourth term in office.

Turnout

For the primary election, turnout was 15.77%, with 1,183,429 votes cast. For the general election, turnout was 48.16%, with 3,603,519 votes cast.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Polling


Hypothetical polling		----------

Results

423,097

Independents and Third Party

Candidates

Declared

  • Fuji Shioura, Write-In Candidate
  • Sharon Hansen

    Removed from the ballot

  • Chad Koppie
  • Omar Lopez

    General election

Fundraising

Debates

Polling


Hypothetical polling		-------

  • * Internal poll for the Jim Oberweis campaign.

    Results

Durbin won the election, despite winning only 14 of Illinois' 102 counties.
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