Английская Википедия:1986 Illinois elections

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox election Шаблон:ElectionsIL Elections were held in Illinois on Tuesday, November 4, 1986.

Primaries were held March 18, 1986.

Election information

1986 was a midterm election year in the United States.

Creation of the Illinois Solidarity Party

After LaRouche movement disciples won the Democratic primaries for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State, Adlai Stevenson III created the Solidarity Party primarily to run Democratic candidates against them in the general election. He himself dropped off of the Democratic ticket for Governor, which he had won the primary for, and ran instead as the Solidarity Party candidate for Governor. The two Lyndon LaRouche-affiliated candidates, Mark J. Fairchild for Lieutenant Governor and Janice Hart for Secretary of State, had not seen their affiliations with LaRouche well-publicized until after they won their upset primary defeats over Stevenson-backed candidates George Sangmeister and Aurelia Pucinski.

Illinois law required any unestablished party to run a full slate in order to obtain ballot access, thus, Stevenson ran candidates in all races.

Turnout

Turnout in the primary was 26.23%, with 1,602,156 ballots cast. 1,014,908 Democratic and 570,661 Republican primary ballots were cast.

Turnout in the general election was 55.34%, with 3,332,450 ballots cast.

Straight-ticket voting

Illinois had a straight-ticket voting option in 1986.

Party	Number of straight-ticket votes
Democratic	107,788
Republican	465,469
Allin Walker	17
Illinois Solidarity	1,901
Libertarian	1,239
Quality Congressional Representation	421
Socialist Workers	358

Federal elections

United States Senate

Incumbent Democratic Senator Alan Dixon was reelected.

United States House

All Illinois seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 1986.

State elections

Governor and Lieutenant Governor

Incumbent Governor James R. Thompson won reelection to a fourth term, defeating Adlai Stevenson III. This was a rematch of the previous 1982 gubernatorial election, which saw Stevenson as a Democratic nominee.

Stevenson, who had won the Democratic gubernatorial primary, withdrew from the Democratic ticket after Mark Fairchild, a follower of Lyndon LaRouche, won the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. Stevenson refused to run on a ticket with supporters of LaRouche's ideology. Stevenson instead created the Illinois Solidarity Party and ran as its nominee.

Attorney General

Incumbent Attorney General Neil Hartigan, a Democrat, was reelected to a second term.

Democratic primary

Incumbent Neil Hartigan defeated Chicago alderman Martin J. Oberman in the Democratic primary.

Hartigan had originally declared his intention to forgo seeking reelection, and instead run for governor, but he ultimately reversed course and sought reelection after Adlai Stevenson III entered the race for governor.

Republican primary

Republican Village President of Arlington Heights James T. Ryan won the Republican primary, running unopposed. Ryan stepped-down as nominee after allegations arose that he had committed domestic abuse against both his wife and ex-wife, which arose soon after he received his party's nomination.

There had been originally been several other candidates running for the Republican nomination in the primary, but all withdrew soon after Democratic incumbent Hartigan announced that he would seek reelection.

If he had been elected, Ryan would have been the first Republican sitting mayor elected to statewide office in Illinois since Edward C. Akin was elected Attorney General in 1898.

After Ryan withdrew as the Republican nominee, he was replaced on the ballot by Bernard Carey, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners who had also formerly served as Cook County State's Attorney from 1972 through 1980. Ryan's withdrawal had taken place five months before the general election.

Secretary of State

Incumbent Secretary of State Jim Edgar, a Republican first appointed in 1981 and subsequently elected to a full term in 1982, was reelected to a second full term.

Democratic primary

Little known candidate Janice Hart won an upset victory over Aurelia Pucinski (who had the backing of Adlai Stevenson III and others). While, not well-reported until after the primary, Hart was a member of the LaRouche movement.

General election

The Illinois Solidarity Party ran Jane N. Spirgel in the election. Spirgel was an outgoing member of the DuPage County Board (on which she was the sole remaining Democratic member and had first been elected in 1974).

Comptroller

Шаблон:Infobox election Incumbent Comptroller Roland Burris, a Democrat, was reelected to a third term.

Republican primary

State Senator Adeline Jay Geo-Karis won the Republican primary unopposed.

Treasurer

Шаблон:Infobox election Incumbent Treasurer James Donnewald, a Democrat, lost the Democratic primary to former Treasurer Jerome Cosentino. Consentino won the general election, earning him a second non-consecutive term.

Democratic primary

Incumbent James Donnewald lost renomination to former Treasurer Jerome Cosentino. Donnewald had been the party organization's favored candidate. Other candidates running included Cook County Board of Appeals member Pat Quinn and LaRouche movement member Robert D. Hart (who had the formal backing of Lyndon LaRouche's NDPC).

Republican primary

J. Michael Houston, the mayor of Springfield, won the Republican nomination. Houston was seeking to become the first Republican Illinois Treasurer in over twenty years. He was also seeking to be the first Republican sitting mayor elected to statewide office in Illinois since Edward C. Akin was elected Illinois Attorney General in 1898.

State Senate

Some of the seats of the Illinois Senate were up for election in 1986. Democrats retained control of the chamber.

State House of Representatives

All of the seats in the Illinois House of Representatives were up for election in 1986. Democrats retained control of the chamber.

Trustees of University of Illinois

An election was held for three of nine seats for Trustees of University of Illinois system for six year terms.

The election saw the reelection incumbent Democrat Nina T. Shepherd to a third term, as well as the election of new Democratic trustees Judith Ann Calder and Charles Wolff.

First-term incumbent Republicans Galey Day and Dean E. Madden lost reelection.

Judicial elections

Multiple judicial positions were up for election in 1986.

Ballot measures

Illinois voters voted on two ballot measures in 1986, both of them legislatively referred constitutional amendments. In order to be approved, measures required either 60% support among those specifically voting on the amendment or 50% support among all ballots cast in the elections.

Bail Amendment

Voters approved the Bail Amendment, a legislatively refereed constitutional amendment which amended Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution of Illinois to further expand the population that may be denied bail.

Bail Amendment
Option	Votes	% of votes on measure	% of all ballots cast
Yes	1,368,242	77.25	41.18
No	402,891	22.75	12.13
Total votes	1,771,133	100	53.31
Шаблон:Background color | Voter turnout	Шаблон:Background color colspan=3 text align=right | 29.50%

Exempt Veterans' Organizations from Property Taxes Amendment

Exempt Veterans' Organizations from Property Taxes Amendment, a legislatively refereed constitutional amendment which would amend Article IX, Section 6 of the Constitution of Illinois to exempt property used exclusively by veterans' organizations from property taxes, failed to meet either threshold amend the constitution.

Exempt Veterans' Organizations from Property Taxes Amendment
Option	Votes	% of votes on measure	% of all ballots cast
Yes	860,609	54.19	25.90
No	727,737	45.82	21.90
Total votes	1,588,346	100	47.80
Шаблон:Background color | Voter turnout	Шаблон:Background color colspan=3 text align=right | 26.46%

Local elections

Local elections were held. These included county elections, such as the Cook County elections.