2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary
The 2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary took place on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, one of three states voting on the same day in the Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The Illinois primary is an open primary, with the state awarding 184 delegates, of which 155 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.
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 Election results by county
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Immediately after the polls closed at 7:00 pm Central Time, the Associated Press declared Joe Biden the winner of the Illinois primary. Biden was victorious in all but one county, Champaign County. Together with victories in Florida and Arizona, Biden greatly expanded the gap in delegates between him and Sanders.[1] Voter turnout was significantly down from 2016, due to the closure of polling places as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][3]
Procedure
Illinois is one of three states which held primaries on March 17, 2020, the other two being Arizona and Florida.[4]
Voting took place throughout the state from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. In the open primary, candidates must meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 155 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of the 155 pledged delegates, between three and eight are allocated to each of the state's 18 congressional districts and another 20 are allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 34 at-large pledged delegates. These delegate totals do not account for pledged delegate bonuses or penalties from timing or clustering.[5]
National convention district level delegates are listed on the ballot and chosen during the primary. The national convention delegation meeting will subsequently be held on June 6, 2020, to vote on the 34 pledged at-large and 20 PLEO delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention. The 155 pledged delegates Illinois sends to the national convention will be joined by 29 unpledged PLEO delegates (12 members of the Democratic National Committee; 15 members of Congress, including both Senators and 13 U.S. Representatives; the governor; and former president Barack Obama).[5]
Polling
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| Source of poll aggregation | Date updated |
Dates polled |
Joe Biden |
Bernie Sanders |
Tulsi Gabbard |
Un- decided[lower-alpha 1] | |||||
| 270toWin | Mar 17, 2020 | Mar 7–16, 2020 | 58.6% | 30.2% | 2.0% | 9.2% | |||||
| RealClear Politics | Mar 17, 2020 | Mar 10–12, 2020 | 60.0% | 30.5% | –[lower-alpha 2] | 9.5% | |||||
| FiveThirtyEight | Mar 17, 2020 | until Mar 16, 2020[lower-alpha 3] | 61.5% | 26.6% | 1.5% | 10.4% | |||||
| Average | 60.0% | 29.1% | 1.8% | 9.1% | |||||||
| Tabulation of individual polls of the 2020 Illinois Democratic primary | ||||||||||||||||
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| Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size[lower-alpha 4] |
Margin of error |
Joe Biden |
Michael Bloomberg |
Pete Buttigieg |
Kamala Harris |
Amy Klobuchar |
Bernie Sanders |
Elizabeth Warren |
Other | Undecided | ||||
| Swayable | Mar 16, 2020 | 1,861 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 63% | – | – | – | – | 28% | – | 10%[lower-alpha 5] | – | ||||
| Emerson College/Nexstar | Mar 11–12, 2020 | 567 (LV) | ± 4.1% | 57% | – | – | – | – | 36% | – | 2%[lower-alpha 6] | 6% | ||||
| Gravis Marketing | Mar 10–12, 2020 | 549 (LV) | ± 4.2% | 63% | – | – | – | – | 25% | – | – | 12% | ||||
| ROI Rocket | Mar 6–12, 2020 | 960 (LV) | ± 3.1% | 57% | – | – | – | – | 34% | – | –[lower-alpha 7] | –[lower-alpha 7] | ||||
| Victory Research | Mar 7–9, 2020 | 1,200 (LV) | ± 2.83% | 55% | – | – | – | – | 36% | – | 1%[lower-alpha 8] | 8% | ||||
| Ogden & Fry/Northwest Side GOP Club | Mar 8, 2020 | 457(LV) | ± 4.58% | 64% | – | – | – | – | 32% | – | 4%[lower-alpha 9] | –[lower-alpha 10] | ||||
| 55% | – | – | – | – | 26% | – | 2%[lower-alpha 11] | 16% | ||||||||
| Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Bloomberg, and Warren withdraw from the race | ||||||||||||||||
| Victory Research | Feb 17–19, 2020 | 1,200(LV) | ± 2.83% | 20.3% | 14.5% | 11.4% | – | 6.3% | 25.6% | 6.6% | 4.4%[lower-alpha 12] | 10.9% | ||||
| Southern Illinois University | Feb 10–17, 2020 | 475 (LV) | ± 4.5% | 14% | 17% | 13% | – | 8% | 22% | 6% | 2%[lower-alpha 13] | 17% | ||||
| Harris withdraws from the race | ||||||||||||||||
| Victory Research | Nov 27 – Dec 1, 2019 | 1,500 (RV) | ±2.83% | 23.2% | 3.6% | 15.9% | 3.2% | 2.6% | 15.0% | 17.4% | 12.3%[lower-alpha 14] | 6.9% | ||||
| Victory Research | Jul 26–29, 2019 | 1,200 | ± 2.83% | 36.1% | – | 9.3% | 8.6% | 1.7% | 15.2% | 12.8% | 9.2%[lower-alpha 15] | 7.3% | ||||
Results
| Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates[8] |
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| Joe Biden | 986,661 | 58.94 | 95 |
| Bernie Sanders | 605,701 | 36.18 | 60 |
| Michael Bloomberg (withdrawn) | 25,500 | 1.52 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Warren (withdrawn) | 24,413 | 1.46 | 0 |
| Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn) | 9,729 | 0.58 | 0 |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 9,642 | 0.57 | 0 |
| Andrew Yang (withdrawn) | 4,021 | 0.24 | 0 |
| Cory Booker (withdrawn) | 2,684 | 0.16 | 0 |
| Tom Steyer (withdrawn) | 1,684 | 0.10 | 0 |
| Deval Patrick (withdrawn) | 1,567 | 0.01 | 0 |
| Michael Bennet (withdrawn) | 1,346 | 0.01 | 0 |
| John Delaney (withdrawn) | 1,185 | 0.01 | 0 |
| Total | 1,674,133 | 100% | 155 |
See also
- 2020 United States presidential election in Illinois
- 2020 Illinois elections
- Illinois Fair Tax Nov. 2020 ballot referendum
Notes
- Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined
- Gabbard not averaged
- FiveThirtyEight aggregates polls with a trendline regression of polls rather than a strict average of recent polls.
- Key:
A – all adults
RV – registered voters
LV – likely voters
V – unclear - Gabbard with 3%; "Other" with 7%
- Gabbard with 2%
- Not yet released
- Gabbard with 1%
- Gabbard with 4%
- Result after "Undecided" is ruled out as an option.
- Gabbard with 2%
- Steyer with 3.4%; Gabbard with 1.0%
- Steyer and Yang with 1%; someone else with 1%
- Patrick with 2.4%; Booker with 2.3%; Steyer with 1.8%; Castro with 1.6%; Yang with 1.0%; Gabbard with 0.9%; Williamson with 0.8%; Bennet with 0.6%; Bullock with 0.5%; Sestak with 0.3%; Delaney with 0.1%
- O'Rourke with 2.1%; Booker with 1.4%; Gillibrand with 1.0%; Steyer with 0.8%; Inslee with 0.7%; Castro with 0.6%; de Blasio with 0.4%; Bullock, Gabbard, Hickenlooper, Ryan, Williamson and Yang with 0.3%; Gravel with 0.2%; Moulton and Sestak with 0.1%; Delaney and Messam with 0.0%
References
- "Illinois Election Results: Live Presidential Primary 2020". New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
- "The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Made Voting In Illinois Today A Full Mess". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- Levine, Sam (2020-03-18). "Closures and confusion as US voters go to the polls amid coronavirus concerns". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- Putnam, Josh. "The 2020 Presidential Primary Calendar". Frontloading HQ. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
- "Illinois Democratic Delegation 2020". The Green Papers. May 20, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
- "Election Results 2020 GENERAL PRIMARY". www.elections.il.gov. Illinois State Board of Elections. Archived from the original on 22 February 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- "Illinois Election Results 2020". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- "2020 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions: Illinois Democrat". The Green Papers. Retrieved 2 July 2020.