2022 Illinois gubernatorial election

The 2022 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Illinois, concurrently with the 2022 Illinois general election. Gubernatorial candidates ran on tickets with candidates for lieutenant governor. The incumbent governor and lieutenant governor, first-term Democrats J. B. Pritzker and Juliana Stratton, sought re-election together against Republican nominees Illinois State Senator Darren Bailey and his running mate Stephanie Trussell.

On election day, Pritzker won re-election with 54.9% of the vote, 0.4% higher than his 2018 performance, and the best raw vote percentage for a Democrat for governor since 1960. However, his margin of victory declined from 15.7% in 2018 to just 12.5% in 2022. Pritzker's victory was once again the result of a strong performance in the Chicago metropolitan area—containing a majority of the state's population—winning a lopsided victory in strongly Democratic Cook County, the home of Chicago, as well as winning all but one of the neighboring collar counties. Bailey improved upon former Republican governor Bruce Rauner's performance in 2018 by just under 4%, largely due to the absence of a strong third-party conservative candidate that appeared in 2018. Subsequently, Bailey was able to flip the counties of Alexander, Fulton, Jackson, Knox, and Winnebago, which Pritzker had previously won, while Pritzker managed to flip McLean county, marking the first time since 1948 that it has voted for a Democrat in a gubernatorial election.

Pritzker was the first Illinois governor to serve a full term and be reelected for a second since Rod Blagojevich in 2006. If Pritzker serves the entirety of his term, he will become the first Democratic governor in the state's history to serve two full four-year terms, as every other Democratic governor had either been impeached, died or resigned before finishing their second term.

Election information
The primaries and general elections coincided with those for federal congressional races, the state's U.S. Senate race, and those for other state offices. The election was part of the 2022 Illinois elections.

The primary election was held on June 28. The general election was held on November 8, 2022.

Nominee

 * J. B. Pritzker, incumbent governor
 * Running mate: Juliana Stratton, incumbent lieutenant governor

Eliminated in primary

 * Beverly Miles, U.S. Army veteran, registered nurse and activist
 * Running mate: Karla Shaw

Results
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Nominee

 * Darren Bailey, state senator
 * Running mate: Stephanie Trussell, former radio talk show host from Lisle, Illinois

Eliminated in primary

 * Richard Irvin, mayor of Aurora
 * Running mate: Avery Bourne, state representative
 * Gary Rabine, businessman
 * Running mate: Aaron Del Mar, Palatine Township Republican Committeeman
 * Paul Schimpf, former state senator and nominee for Attorney General in 2014
 * Running mate: Carolyn Schofield, McHenry County Board member
 * Max Solomon, Attorney
 * Running Mate: Latasha Fields
 * Jesse Sullivan, venture capitalist
 * Running mate: Kathleen Murphy, former director of communications for state representative Jeanne Ives

Removed from ballot

 * Emily Johnson
 * Keisha Smith

Declined

 * Rodney Davis, U.S. representative for IL's 13th congressional district (ran for re-election)
 * Kirk Dillard, chair of the Regional Transportation Authority, former state senator, and candidate for governor in 2010 and 2014
 * Adam Kinzinger, U.S. representative for IL's 16th congressional district
 * Todd Ricketts, finance chair of the Republican National Committee, member of the TD Ameritrade Board of Directors, and co-owner of the Chicago Cubs

Polling

 * Graphical summary

Results
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Nominee

 * Scott Schluter, veteran, diesel technician, and chair of the Southern Illinois Libertarian Party
 * Running mate: John Phillips

Withdrew

 * Jon Stewart, former professional wrestler and candidate in 2018

Declared but never filed

 * Mancow Muller, radio personality

Removed from ballot

 * Tommy Belg

Polling
Aggregate polls
 * Graphical summary


 * J. B. Pritzker vs. Richard Irvin
 * J. B. Pritzker vs. Gary Rabine
 * J. B. Pritzker vs. Paul Schimpf
 * J. B. Pritzker vs. Jesse Sullivan
 * J. B. Pritzker vs. generic Republican
 * J. B. Pritzker vs. generic opponent
 * Generic Democrat vs. generic Republican

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

 * Alexander (largest city: Cairo)
 * Fulton (largest city: Canton)
 * Jackson (largest city: Carbondale)
 * Knox (largest city: Galesburg)
 * Winnebago (largest city: Rockford)

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

 * McLean (largest city: Bloomington)

By congressional district
Pritzker won 14 of 17 congressional districts.