Illinois state legislative special elections, 2024

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In 2024, four special elections were called to fill a vacant seat in the Illinois General Assembly.

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Senate special elections called:

How vacancies are filled in Illinois


If there is a vacancy in the Illinois General Assembly, the state constitution mandates that the seat must be filled by appointment when allowed by law. The appointment must be made within 30 days after the vacancy. If a vacancy occurs in the Senate with more than twenty-eight months remaining in the term, the appointment is interim until the next general election, when a special election must be held. All other House and Senate vacancies are to be filled by an appointment from the same political party that last held the seat.[1] If the vacated seat was held by an independent (no party affiliation), the governor is to appoint an independent successor within 30 days.[2]

The vacancy must be filled by the respective party organizations covering the legislative district.[3] The respective committeemen and committeewomen representing the legislative district must vote on a replacement.[4] The person selected for the seat serves for the remainder of the unfilled term.[5]

DocumentIcon.jpg See sources: Illinois Const. Art. 4, Sec. 2(d) and Illinois Rev. Stat. ch. 10, § 5/25-6


About the legislature

The Illinois General Assembly is the state legislature of Illinois, created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. It works beside the executive branch led by the state governor and the judicial branch led by the Illinois Supreme Court. The Illinois General Assembly consists of the Illinois House of Representatives, the lower chamber, and the Illinois State Senate, the upper chamber.

The boxes below show the partisan composition of both chambers directly before and after the most recent general elections prior to 2024. For the most up-to-date numbers on partisan composition in this legislature, see here (Senate) and here (House).

Illinois State Senate
Party As of November 8, 2022 After November 9, 2022
     Democratic Party 41 40
     Republican Party 18 19
Total 59 59
Illinois House of Representatives
Party As of November 8, 2022 After November 9, 2022
     Democratic Party 73 78
     Republican Party 45 39
     Vacancies 0 1
Total 118 118

Special elections

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November 5, 2024

Historical data

There were 955 state legislative special elections that took place from 2010 to 2023. Illinois held two special elections during the same time period.

The table below details how many state legislative special elections were held in a state in a given year.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Illinois General Assembly, "Illinois Constitution," accessed February 4, 2021 (Section Article IV, Section 2(d))
  2. ↑ Illinois General Assembly, "Illinois Compiled Statutes," accessed February 4, 2021 (Statute 10 ILCS 5/25-6)
  3. ↑ Illinois General Assembly, "Illinois Election Code," accessed February 4, 2021 (Statute 10 ILCS 5/25 6 (a), (c))
  4. ↑ Illinois General Assembly, "Illinois Election Code," accessed February 4, 2021 (Statute 10 ILCS 5/25 6 (d))
  5. ↑ Illinois General Assembly, "Illinois Election Code," accessed February 4, 2021 (Statute 10 ILCS 5/25 6 (f))
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Ballotpedia staff, "Email communication with Matt Dietrich, Public Information Officer of the Illinois State Board of Elections," November 30, 2023 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Source" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Source" defined multiple times with different content
  7. ↑ Illinois State Senator Patricia Van Pelt, "Van Pelt to constituents: It has been an honor to serve you," July 27, 2023
  8. ↑ Illinois Senate Democrats, “Lakesia Collins sworn in as new state senator for the 5th District,” accessed August 16, 2023
  9. ↑ Nadig Newspapers, "Van Pelt to constituents: It has been an honor to serve you," May 25, 2023
  10. ↑ Chicago Business, "Dems appoint Natalie Toro to fill state Senate seat vacated by Cristina Pacione-Zayas," July 11, 2023
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chicago Sun-Times, "Bernie Sanders endorses Graciela Guzmán in Northwest Side state Senate race," March 12, 2024
  12. ↑ Daily Herald, "State Rep. Walker appointed to vacant Illinois Senate seat," accessed May 17, 2024
  13. ↑ The Pantagraph, "Jason Barickman to resign from Illinois Senate," accessed January 11, 2023
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