United States Senate election in Illinois, 2014

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See also: Illinois elections, 2014
United States Senate election in Illinois, 2014
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Nominee Dick Durbin Jim Oberweis
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,929,637 1,538,523
Percentage 53.55% 42.69%
Illinois Senatorial Election Results by County, 2014.svg
County results
U.S. senator before election

Dick Durbin
Democratic

 Elected U.S. Senator

Dick Durbin
Democratic

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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 Senator and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin ran for re-election to a fourth term.[1] 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.

Background

Dick Durbin 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.[1]

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Results

Democratic primary results[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Dick Durbin (Incumbent) 429,031 100
Total votes 429,031 100

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Removed

Declined

Endorsements

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Jim
Oberweis		 Doug
Truax		 Other Undecided
Market Shares Corp. February 5–8, 2014 600 ± 4% 52% 15% 2% 32%

Results

Republican primary results[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Jim Oberweis 423,097 56.08
Republican Doug Truax 331,237 43.91
Republican Write-in 54 <0.01
Total votes 754,388 100

Independents and Third Party

Candidates

Declared

Removed from the ballot

General election

Fundraising

Campaign Finance Reports through November 24, 2014
Candidate Raised Spent
Dick Durbin $10,309,888 $12,453,951
Jim Oberweis $2,388,389 $2,416,774
Sharon Hansen $2,420 $2,367
Source: OpenSecrets[15]

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Dick
Durbin (D)		 Jim
Oberweis (R)		 Other Undecided
Public Policy Polling November 1–2, 2014 1,064 ± 3% 51% 41% 4%[16] 4%
52% 44% — 4%
McKeon & Associates October 28, 2014 823 ± 3.9% 49% 39% 4%[16] 8%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov October 16–23, 2014 3,519 ± 3% 52% 39% 1% 9%
APC Research October 16–21, 2014 800 ± 3.5% 50% 36% 7%[17] 6%
Southern Illinois University September 23–October 15, 2014 691 LV ± 3.7% 46.9% 36.5% 0.3% 12.2%
1,006 RV ± 3% 48.9% 32.3% 0.2% 13.7%
UIS Survey Research October 2–8, 2014 723 ± 3.7% 50.4% 34.9% 0.6% 14.1%
We Ask America October 7, 2014 1,086 ± 2.98% 51% 38% 4%[16] 6%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov September 20–October 1, 2014 3,955 ± 2% 51% 39% 0% 9%
Rasmussen Reports September 24–25, 2014 750 ± 4% 51% 37% 4% 8%
Chicago Tribune September 3–12, 2014 800 ± 3.5% 55% 32% 5%[16] 7%
We Ask America September 4, 2014 1,014 ± 3.08% 49.29% 39.22% 3.73%[16] 7.76%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov August 18–September 2, 2014 4,363 ± 3% 50% 38% 1% 10%
We Ask America August 27, 2014 1,054 ± 3.02% 47.78% 40.5% 4.09%[16] 7.63%
Harper Polling* August 25–27, 2014 1,340 ± 2.68% 44% 38% 8%[16] 10%
Gravis Marketing August 4–5, 2014 567 ± 4% 48% 38% — 14%
We Ask America July 30, 2014 1,049 ± 3.04% 53.11% 38.13% — 8.76%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov July 5–24, 2014 5,324 ± 2.1% 48% 41% 1% 11%
We Ask America June 12, 2014 1,116 ± 2.93% 52.13% 38.6% — 9.27%
Rasmussen Reports April 9–10, 2014 750 ± 4% 51% 37% 3% 10%
Public Policy Polling November 22–25, 2013 557 ± 4.2% 51% 36% — 12%
We Ask America September 24, 2013 1,434 ± 2.86% 49.97% 38.67% — 11.36%
  • * Internal poll for the Jim Oberweis campaign.

Results

While this was Durbin's worst performance he still won easily, winning by ten points. Durbin as expected did exteremlly well in Cook County the county that covers the metro area of Chicago.

United States Senate election in Illinois, 2014[18]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Dick Durbin (Incumbent) 1,929,637 53.55
Republican Jim Oberweis 1,538,522 42.69
Libertarian Sharon Hansen 135,316 3.76
Write-in Various candidates 44 <0.01
Majority 391,115 10.85%
Total votes 3,603,519 100
Democratic hold

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Official Illinois State Board of Elections Results Retrieved January 5, 2015.
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  9. ↑ Choose Truax to challenge Durbin Chicago Tribune, March 5, 2014
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  14. ↑ Illinois Green Party on Sidelines in November Pantagraph.com, August 21, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2014
  15. ↑ Open Secrets | Elections | U.S. Senate opensecrets.org
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 Sharon Hansen (L)
  17. ↑ Sharon Hansen (L) 6%, Other 1%
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