2006 Illinois gubernatorial election

2006 Illinois gubernatorial election
Turnout	47.29% 2.76 pp
	County results ; Blagojevich: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70%; Topinka: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80%
Governor before election; Rod Blagojevich; Democratic	Elected Governor ; Rod Blagojevich; Democratic

The 2006 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich won re-election to a second four-year term scheduled to have ended on January 10, 2011. However, Blagojevich did not complete his term, as he was impeached and removed from office in 2009. This was the first election since 1964 that a Democrat was re-elected governor.

Many observers expected the race to be close, especially considering the polling,^[1] which had shown Governor Blagojevich to have a high disapproval rating. However, the Republicans had fared poorly due to scandals involving prior Governor George Ryan, and the increasingly unpopular presidency of George W. Bush. Exit polls showed Topinka won white voters (46%-41%-13%), while Blagojevich performed well among African Americans (80%-16%-2%) and Latinos (83%-12%-4%). Democrats won Will County for the first time since 1964, and Lake County for the first time since 1960.

This was the second and last time in Illinois that a woman was a major party's nominee for governor, the other being 1994. This was also the last time a male lieutenant governor was on the winning ticket.

Background

The primaries and general elections coincided with those for Congress and those for other state offices. The election was part of the 2006 Illinois elections.

For the primaries, turnout for the gubernatorial primaries was 23.13%, with 1,680,207 votes cast and turnout for the lieutenant gubernatorial primaries was 20.60% with 1,496,453 votes cast.^[2]^[3] For the general election, turnout was 47.29%, with 3,487,989 votes cast.^[2]^[3]

Democratic primaries

Governor

Candidates

Rod Blagojevich, incumbent governor of Illinois
Edwin Eisendrath, former Chicago Alderman and former HUD official

Results

Democratic gubernatorial primary results^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Rod Blagojevich (incumbent)	669,006	70.84
	Democratic	Edwin Eisendrath	275,375	29.16
Total votes			944,397	100.00

Lieutenant governor

Candidates

Pat Quinn, incumbent lieutenant governor of Illinois
Pamela R. Schadow

Results

Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial primary results^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Pat Quinn (incumbent)	819,005	100.00
	Democratic	Pamela R. Schadow	17	0.00
Total votes			819,022	100.00

Republican primaries

Governor

Candidates

Bill Brady, Illinois State Senator
Ron Gidwitz, businessman and former chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education
Andy Martin, perennial candidate
Jim Oberweis, owner of Oberweis Dairy
Judy Baar Topinka, Illinois State Treasurer

Declined

Jim Edgar, former governor ^[5]

Campaign

On November 7, 2005, Topinka announced that she would not seek re-election as state treasurer — instead, she entered the gubernatorial primary, hoping to challenge Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich. The Republican primary was deeply divisive; her tenure as Party Chairman destroyed her support from the conservative wing of her party, and it was feared that her pro-choice and positive gay rights positions would be detrimental to her standing with the same conservatives. In December she announced that she would join forces with DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois.

In February 2006, the candidates for the Republican nomination for Illinois Governor began running their first TV ads for the March statewide primary election. Rival candidate Ron Gidwitz's advertisements, attacking Topinka, were rebuked in the same week by the Illinois Republican Party: "In an unprecedented action, the Illinois Republican Party has officially rebuked the Gidwitz campaign for this ad because the Party found that the ad violates the Party's "Code of Conduct", which was enacted to police proper conduct among Republican candidates."

Later in February, candidate Jim Oberweis, another rival for the Republican Gubernatorial nomination, started a series of attack ads for television markets, against Topinka, that were even more widely criticized, mostly for using "fake" headlines on the images of actual Illinois newspapers.^[1]^[2] These ads, like Gidwitz's ads, also came under review by the Illinois Republican Party.^[3] Because of the controversy generated, several television stations withdrew Oberweis's ads.^[4]

Results

Baar Topinka

  30–40%
  40–50%
  50–60%
  60–70%

  Oberweis

  30–40%
  40–50%
  50–60%
  60–70%

  Brady

  30–40%
  40–50%
  50–60%
  60-70%

Republican gubernatorial primary results^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Judy Baar Topinka	280,701	38.15
	Republican	Jim Oberweis	233,576	31.74
	Republican	Bill Brady	135,370	18.40
	Republican	Ron Gidwitz	80,068	10.88
	Republican	Andy Martin	6,095	0.83
Total votes			735,810	100.00

Lieutenant governor

Candidates

Joe Birkett, DuPage County State's Attorney
Lawrence Bruckner, lawyer
Jeremy Bryan Cole
Steve Rauschenberger, member of the Illinois Senate
Sandy Wegman, Kane County Recorder^[6]

Results

Birkett

  30–40%
  40–50%
  50–60%
  60–70%

  Rauschenberger

  30–40%
  40–50%

Republican lieutenant gubernatorial primary results^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Joe Birkett	342,950	50.63
	Republican	Steve Rauschenberger	202,905	29.95
	Republican	Sandy Wegman	90,255	13.32
	Republican	Lawrence L. Bruckner	41,307	6.19
	Republican	Jeremy Bryan Cole	14	0.00
Total votes			677,431	100.00

General election

Candidates

On ballot

Rod Blagojevich (Democratic Party), incumbent governor of Illinois
Judy Baar Topinka (Republican Party), Illinois State Treasurer
Rich Whitney (Green Party), attorney^{[citation needed]}

Write-ins

The following candidates were write-in candidates.^[7]

Marvin Koch, Chicago-area property manager and naval reservist.
Mark McCoy (Libertarian Party), legal Scholar and Rights Defender
Angel Rivera, lung transplant procurement coordinator at the University of Chicago Medical Center
Mike Shorten

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
The Cook Political Report^[8]	Lean D	November 6, 2006
Sabato's Crystal Ball^[9]	Lean D	November 6, 2006
Rothenberg Political Report^[10]	Likely D	November 2, 2006
Real Clear Politics^[11]	Lean D	November 6, 2006

Polling

Source	Date	Rod Blagojevich (D)	Judy Baar Topinka (R)	Rich Whitney (G)	Other
Survey USA^[12]	November 2, 2006	45%	37%	14%	4%
Survey USA^[13]	October 23, 2006	44%	34%	14%	8%
Rasmussen^[14]	October 19, 2006	44%	36%	9%	11%
Zogby/WSJ^[15]	October 16, 2006	47.1%	33.2%	11.3%	8.4%
Glengariff Group^[16]	October 15, 2006	39%	30%	9%	22%
Tribune/WGN-TV^[17]	October 11, 2006	43%	29%	9%	19%
Survey USA^[18]	September 20, 2006	45%	39%	7%	9%
Rasmussen^[19]	September 13, 2006	48%	36%	–	16%
Sun-Times/NBC5^[20]	September 12, 2006	56%	26%	3%	15%
Tribune/WGN-TV^[21]	September 11, 2006	45%	33%	6%	16%
Zogby/WSJ^[22]	September 11, 2006	46.5%	33.6%	–	19.9%
Research 2000^[23]	August 31, 2006	47%	39%	2%	12%
Zogby/WSJ^[22]	August 28, 2006	44.8%	37.6%	–	17.6%
Rasmussen^[24]	August 10, 2006	45%	37%	–	18%
Survey USA^[25]	July 25, 2006	45%	34%	–	21%
Zogby/WSJ^[22]	July 24, 2006	44.4%	36.4%	–	19.2%
Rasmussen^[26]	July 13, 2006	45%	34%	–	21%
Zogby/WSJ^[22]	June 21, 2006	41.1%	37.5%	–	21.4%
Glengariff Group^[27]	June 1–3, 2006	41%	34%	–	25%
Survey USA^[28]	May 23, 2006	43%	37%	–	20%
Rasmussen^[29]	April 24, 2006	38%	44%	–	18%
Rasmussen^[30]	March 31, 2006	41%	43%	–	16%
Rasmussen^[31]	February 25, 2006	42%	36%	–	22%
Rasmussen^[32]	February 7, 2006	37%	48%	–	15%
Research 2000^[33]	January 22, 2006	45%	37%	–	18%

Results

2006 Illinois gubernatorial election^[2]^[3]^[34]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Rod Blagojevich (incumbent)	1,736,731	49.79%	−2.40%
	Republican	Judy Baar Topinka	1,369,315	39.26%	−5.81%
	Green	Rich Whitney	361,336	10.36%	n/a
	Write-in		20,607	0.59%	n/a
Total votes			3,487,989	100.00%	n/a
	Democratic hold

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Will (Largest city: Joliet)
Williamson (Largest city: Marion)
Boone (largest city: Belvidere)
Mercer (largest city: Aledo)
Monroe (largest city: Waterloo)
Henderson (Largest village: Oquawka)
Knox (Largest city: Galesburg)
Lake (largest city: Waukegan)

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Jackson (largest city: Carbondale)
Cass (Largest city: Beardstown)
Christian (Largest city: Taylorville)
Clinton (Largest city: Breese)
Marion (Largest city: Centralia)
Mason (Largest city: Havana)
Greene (Largest city: Carrollton)
Macoupin (largest city: Carlinville)
Macon (largest city: Decatur)
Montgomery (largest city: Litchfield)
Crawford (largest city: Robinson)

Aftermath

The Green Party became an established political party statewide, according to Illinois state election law, when Rich Whitney received more than 5% of the total vote for governor. The new status provided the party with several new advantages, such as lower signature requirements for ballot access, primary elections, free access to additional voter data, the ability to elect precinct committeemen, run a partial slate of candidates at any jurisdictional level, and slate candidates without petitioning. The only other statewide established political parties were the Democratic and Republican Parties. It is rare for a new political party to become established statewide in Illinois, the last to do so being the Solidarity Party in 1986 and the Progressive Party before that.

References

^ "SurveyUSA News Poll #8260". Surveyusa.com. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
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^ "Jim Edgar says no to run for Illinois Governor". September 30, 2005.
^ "Prosecutor removes office from case". chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune. January 21, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
^ Official Vote Cast at the General Election November 7, 2006. Illinois State Board of Elections. November 7, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
^ "2006 Governor Race Ratings for November 6, 2006" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 5, 2008. Retrieved October 1, 2006.
^ "Election Eve 2006: THE FINAL PREDICTIONS". Sabato's Crystal Ball. November 6, 2006. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
^ "2006 Gubernatorial Ratings". Senate Ratings. The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
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External links

Official campaign websites (Archived)

[1] "SurveyUSA News Poll #8260". Surveyusa.com. Retrieved March 30, 2015.

[turnout-2] "Voter Turnout". www.elections.il.gov. Illinois State Board of Elections. Archived from the original on May 30, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2020.

[result-3] "Election Results". www.elections.il.gov. Illinois State Board of Elections. Archived from the original on February 22, 2020. Retrieved March 23, 2020.

[illinois.gov-4] "Ballots Cast". Elections.illinois.gov. March 21, 2006. Archived from the original on January 13, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2015.

[5] "Jim Edgar says no to run for Illinois Governor". September 30, 2005.

[6] "Prosecutor removes office from case". chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune. January 21, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2020.

[7] Official Vote Cast at the General Election November 7, 2006. Illinois State Board of Elections. November 7, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2023.

[8] "2006 Governor Race Ratings for November 6, 2006" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 5, 2008. Retrieved October 1, 2006.

[9] "Election Eve 2006: THE FINAL PREDICTIONS". Sabato's Crystal Ball. November 6, 2006. Retrieved June 25, 2021.

[10] "2006 Gubernatorial Ratings". Senate Ratings. The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved June 25, 2021.

[11] "Election 2006". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved June 25, 2021.

[12] "Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #10617". www.surveyusa.com.

[13] "Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #10435". www.surveyusa.com.

[14] "Election Polls 2006: Illinois Governor". Archived from the original on October 20, 2006.

[15] "info-elections06". www.wsj.com.

[16] Glengariff Group

[17] "Tribune/WGN-TV". Chicago Tribune.

[18] "Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #10314". www.surveyusa.com.

[19] Rasmussen

[20] Celizic, Mike (October 29, 2009). "Politics, "Dates" Put Bumps in Obamas' Marriage".

[21] "Tribune/WGN-TV". Chicago Tribune.

[Zogby/WSJ-22] "WSJ.com". www.wsj.com.

[23] "Research 2000".^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[24] "Election Poll 2006: Illinois Governor". August 19, 2006. Archived from the original on August 19, 2006.

[25] "Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #9827". www.surveyusa.com.

[26] "ilGovernor". Archived from the original on July 16, 2006.

[27] "Glengariff Group". Archived from the original on June 13, 2006.

[28] "Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #9283". www.surveyusa.com.

[29] "Election 2006 Poll". Archived from the original on May 12, 2006.

[30] Rasmussen

[31] Rasmussen

[32] Rasmussen

[33] Research 2000

[34] "Ballots Cast". Elections.illinois.gov. November 7, 2006. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 30, 2015.

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Background

Democratic primaries

Governor

Candidates

Results

Lieutenant governor

Candidates

Results

Republican primaries

Governor

Candidates

Declined

Campaign

Results

Lieutenant governor

Candidates

Results

General election

Candidates

On ballot

Write-ins

Predictions

Polling

Results

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Aftermath

See also

References

External links