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2024 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions
 
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Presidential Nominating Process
Candidate filing: Thursday 4 January - Friday 5 January 2024
Primary: Tuesday 19 March 2024
Convention: Circa May 2024 (date not set)
Republicans
CandidateDelegate Votes
Soft
Pledged
Soft
Unpledged
Soft
Total
Hard Total
(available)64 100.00%64 100.00%64 100.00%
Total64 100.00%64 100.00%64 100.00%

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Illinois Primaries for Statewide offices and Congress
 
Illinois State and Local Government

 
 

Illinois Republican Party Bylaws from the Illinois Republican Party (does not cover delegate selection).

Presidential candidate petitions may be circulated beginning 7 October 2023.

Election Calendar and Candidate Filing from the State Board of Elections.

28 February 2024: Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie R. Porter orders Donald Trump name to be removed from Illinois 19 March primary ballot for his role in 6 January insurrection. Stayed until 1 March. [2024 COEL 00013]


   

Tuesday 19 March 2024: Illinois Primary. Hours reportedly 6:00a-7:00p CDT (1100-0000 UTC). Delegate Selection: Combined Selection Statewide: Winner-Take-All, District: Loophole Primary. Voter Eligibility: Open Primary.

Primary (preliminary)
Included in Nationwide vote.

CandidatePop
Vote
%
Ryan L. Binkley  
Christopher James "Chris" Christie  
Ronald Dion "Ron" DeSantis  
Nimarata Randhaw "Nikki" Haley  
Donald John Trump  
Total 100.00%
 

All 64 of Illinois' delegates to the Republican National Convention will be bound to Presidential Candidates based on the results of today's Illinois Presidential Primary.

  • 51 National Convention District delegates are elected in a so-called "Loophole" primary (a Delegate Selection Primary combined with an Advisory "beauty contest" presidential preference vote). Each candidate for [District] delegate ... must file a Statement of Presidential Preference supporting a specific presidential candidate, or a statement that he/she intends to run uncommitted [SBE No. P-1E]. District delegates are directly elected by the voters and individually listed on the ballot with their presidential preferences indicated.
  • 10 National Convention Statewide Delegates are bound winner-take-all to the candidate receiving the largest number of votes statewide. These delegates do not appear on the ballot and are chosen at the State Convention.
  • The 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, will attend the convention, by virtue of their position, bound winner-take-all to the candidate receiving the largest number of votes statewide.

Primary (preliminary)

ContestAvailable
Del
DelegatePreferencePop
Vote
%Elected
CD013     
CD023     
CD033     
CD043     
CD053     
CD063     
CD073     
CD083     
CD093     
CD103     
CD113     
CD123     
CD133     
CD143     
CD153     
CD163     
CD173     
Grand Total
Available: 51 delegates.

Primary (preliminary)

Contest
 Pop
Vote
Del
Statewide 13
Total
Delegates
 13

Delegates are bound for the 1st ballot at the National Convention.

 

Circa May 2024 (date not set): The Illinois Republican Party State Convention convenes to choose the 10 statewide delegates according to the results of the primary.

 

Notes

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

 

Links Links to other web sites

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Election Authority
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Media & others
  Belleville News-Democrat
  Benton Evening News
  Carmi Times
  Chicago Sun-Times
  Chicago Tribune
  Daily Herald - Arlington Heights
  Du Quoin Evening Call
  Herald & Review - Decatur
  Illinois Times - Springfield
  Journal Gazette and Times-Courier - Mattoon
  NewsLink.org - Illinois
  Pioneer Press - Chicago
  Politics1.com - Illinois
  Sauk Valley - Dixon - Sterling - Rock Flats
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch (STLtoday.com)
  Star Publications - Tinley Park
  Suburban Chicago Newspapers
  The Capitol Fax Blog
  The Daily Journal - Kankakee
  The Daily Register - Harrisburg
  The Journal - Chicago's Northwest Suburbs
  The News-Gazette - Champaign - Urbana
  The Pantagraph - Bloomington-Normal
  The Quincy Herald-Whig
  The Southern Illinoisan - Carbondale
  The Zephyr - Galesburg
  WBBM TV - CBS - Chicago
  WBEZ - Chicago Public Radio
  WEEK TV - NBC - East Peoria
  WLS TV - ABC - Chicago
  WMAQ TV - NBC - Chicago
 


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  Chronological Cumulative Allocation of Delegates  
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Delegate Counts
  Democratic Pledged and Unpledged Summary   --   Republican Pledged and Unpledged Summary  
  Democratic Hard and Soft Summary   --   Republican Hard and Soft Summary  
Commentary: THE TIES THAT BIND-- OR DO THEY? or, Politicus Unbound
 
Delegate Allocation
  Democratic Quick Reference   --   Republican Quick Reference  
  The Math Behind the Democratic Delegate Allocation   --   The Math Behind the Republican Delegate Allocation  
  Democratic Timing Penalties and Bonuses   --   Republican Timing Penalties  
 
  Democratic Delegate Pledging and Voter Eligibility   --   Republican Delegate Selection and Voter Eligibility  
 
  Primaries at a Glance  
 
  Results Status and Date Retrieved  
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  Estimating the Delegate Count  
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Documentation
  Historical Analysis of the Presidential Nominating Process  
  Historical Analysis of the apportionment of delegate votes at the National Conventions of the two major parties  
  Primary/Caucus/Convention Glossary  
  Statutory Election Information of the Several states / Presidential Primary  
  Dates of PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES re: selection and/or allocation/distribution of Delegates to Major Party National Conventions  
 
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