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United States Senate election in Illinois, 2014

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1,538,522

Start date
  
November 4, 2014

53.55%
  
42.69%

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Winner
  
Dick Durbin

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.

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Incumbent Democratic 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.

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.

Declared

  • Dick Durbin, incumbent Senator

    • Declared

  • Jim Oberweis, State Senator, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and 2004, candidate for Governor in 2006 and nominee for IL-14 in 2008 special and 2008 general election
  • Doug Truax, businessman

    • Removed

  • Armen Alvarez, Multicultural Membership Development Manager of the Parent-Teacher Association (removed from the ballot)
  • William Lee, blogger (removed from the ballot)

    • Declined

  • Chad Koppie, Kane County Regional Board of Schools trustee, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1992, 1996 and 2008 and candidate for Governor in 1998
  • Joe Walsh, conservative radio talk show host and former U.S. Representative

    • Declared

  • Fuji Shioura, Write-In Candidate (Independent)
  • Sharon Hansen (Libertarian)

    • Removed from the ballot

  • Chad Koppie (Constitution)
  • Omar Lopez (Green)

    • Polling

  • * Internal poll for the Jim Oberweis campaign.

    • Results

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

    References

    United States Senate election in Illinois, 2014 Wikipedia
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