IL Election Data

So long as they're postmarked by election day, any late arriving mail ballots can be legally counted for another two weeks, until 3/14, and final results are certified on 3/21. For any very close races that short 5 week runoff may be compressed even further.

Chicago municipal elections for Mayor and Aldermen are in 6 days (2/28). In any race where no candidate gets a simple majority the top two go to a runoff in 5 weeks, on 04/04. However, as @ShiaKapos points out, final results may not be immediately known. teapawt.net/ShiaKapos/status/16283…

The statewide vote by mail return rate (as of today) is 54.27%. Only a few jurisdictions are below that, but they include some of the most populous areas, like City of Chicago (37.42%), Lake County (43.51%) and Suburban Cook County (52.05%). Note: there can be a lag in reporting

Here's the relevant section of the election code. The law is explicit that the caps remain off in the general if a self funder lifts the caps in the primary & receives their party's nomination. No such language exists in the section about IE expenditures. illinoiselectiondata.com/ind…

That same A-1 also included this in-kind contribution.

It appears that this $100K contribution is within the limits set in Section E below.

While John Milhiser has raised $80K for the quarter.

On the Republican side Dan Brady has filed a variety of A-1s totaling about $40K for the quarter.

Related: youtube.com/watch?v=o7sLDziV…

In the 2018 cycle Pritzker spent $171.5 million of his own money. So far in the 2022 cycle he has contributed $132 million of his own money to his campaign fund. teapawt.net/ILElectionData/status/…

Here's what the Illinois table looks like:

Somebody asked for this, so sharing it here too:

I love everything about this picture.

I'm confused by this statement. In 2019 Chicago had 2,069 precincts. Lightfoot won 2,046 of them, Preckwinkle won 21 of them and they tied in the other 2. I don't know how to reconcile those facts with this statement.