The

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, general election was held on November 4, 2014. Primaries were held March 18, 2014. Elections were held for

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, all 17 seats of the

Cook County Board of Commissioners The Cook County Board of Commissioners is a legislative body made up of 17 commissioners who are elected by district, and a president who is elected county-wide, all for four-year terms. Cook County, which includes the City of Chicago, is the Uni ...

Cook County Board of Review The Cook County Board of Review is an independent office created by statute by the Illinois General Assembly and is governed by three commissioners who are elected by district for two- or four-year terms. Cook County, which includes Chicago, is the ...

seat 3, three seats on the Water Reclamation District Board, and judgeships on the

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Election information

2014 was a

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year in the United States. The primaries and general elections for Cook County races coincided with those for federal congressional races and those for state elections.

Voter turnout

Voter turnout in Cook County during the primaries was 16.26%, with 458,396 ballots cast. Among these, 285,728

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, 169,922 Republican, 245

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, and 2,501 nonpartisan primary ballots were cast. The city of

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saw 16.54% turnout and suburban Cook County saw 15.99% turnout. The general election saw 49.30% turnout, with 1,364,436 ballots cast. The city of Chicago saw 48.81% turnout and suburban Cook County saw 49.79% turnout.

Assessor

In the 2014

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election, incumbent first-term Assessor

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, a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election.

Primaries

Democratic

Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

Clerk

In the 2014

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election, incumbent sixth-term Clerk

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, a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and the general election.

Primaries

Democratic

Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

Sheriff

In the 2014 Cook County Sheriff election, incumbent second-term Sheriff Tom Dart, a Democrat, was reelected.

Primaries

Democratic

Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

Treasurer

In the 2014 Cook County Treasurer election, incumbent fourth-term Treasurer

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, a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election.

Primaries

Democratic

Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners

In the 2014

election, incumbent first-term President

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, a Democrat, was reelected.

Primaries

Democratic

Republican

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

Cook County Board of Commissioners

The 2014

election saw all seventeen seats of the Cook County Board of Commissioners up for election to four-year terms. Fifteen members were reelected. One member did not seek reelection. One member was defeated in their party's primary. This meant that a total of two individuals were newly-elected. As these were the first elections held following the 2010 United States Census, the seats faced redistricting before this election.

1st district

Incumbent fourth-term Commissioner Earlean Collins, a Democrat, did not seek reelection. Democrat Richard Boykin was elected to succeed him.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

2nd district

Incumbent second-term commissioner Robert Steele, a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

3rd district

Incumbent Commissioner

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, a Democrat who first assumed the office in 1985, was reelected.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

4th district

Incumbent Commissioner Stanley Moore, a Democrat who was appointed to the office in 2013, was reelected to a full term.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

5th district

Incumbent fifth-term Commissioner Deborah Sims, a Democrat, was reelected.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

6th district

Incumbent third-term Commissioner Joan Patricia Murphy, a Democrat, was reelected.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

7th district

Incumbent first-term Commissioner

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, a Democrat, was reelected.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

8th district

Incumbent Commissioner

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, a Democrat, lost reelection, being unseated in the Democratic primary by Luis Arroyo Jr., who went on to win the general election unopposed. Reyes had first been appointed in 2009 (after

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resigned to serve a Chicago alderman), and had been elected to a full term in 2010.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

9th district

Incumbent fifth-term Commissioner Peter N. Silvestri, a Republican, was reelected.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

General election

10th district

Incumbent Commissioner Bridget Gainer, a Democrat first appointed in 2009 and elected outright to a full-term in 2010, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

11th district

Incumbent Commissioner John P. Daley, a Democrat in office since 1992, was reelected.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

General election

12th district

Incumbent first-term Commissioner

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, a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

13th district

Incumbent third-term Commissioner

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, a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

14th district

Incumbent fourth-term Commissioner

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, a Republican, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Republican primary and general election.

Primaries

=Democratic

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Democratic primary.

=Republican

General election

15th district

Incumbent second-term Commissioner

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, a Republican, was reelected.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

General election

16th district

Incumbent first-term Commissioner Jeff Tobolski, a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

17th district

Incumbent third-term Commissioner

Elizabeth Ann Doody Gorman Elizabeth "Liz" Doody Gorman (born February 19, 1968) is a Republican member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 2002 until her resignation in 2015 to accept a job in the private sector. Gorman served as Chairman of the Cook County Re ...

, a Republican, was reelected.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

General election

Cook County Board of Review

In the 2014

election, one seat, Democratic-held, out of its three seats was up for election. Incumbent Larry Rogers, Jr. was reelected. The Cook County Board of Review has its three seats rotate the length of terms. In a staggered fashion (in which no two seats have coinciding two-year terms), the seats rotate between two consecutive four-year terms and a two-year term.

3rd district

Incumbent third-term member Larry Rogers, Jr., a Democrat last reelected in

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, was reelected, running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election. This election was to a four-year term.

Primaries

=Democratic

=Republican

= No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

General election

Water Reclamation District Board

In the 2014

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election, three of the nine seats on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago board were up for election in an

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race. Since three six-year seats were up for election, voters could vote for up to three candidates and the top-three finishers would win. Two of the incumbents for the three seats were seeking reelection, Cynthia M. Santos and Frank Avila both Democrats. Each won reelection. Joining them in winning the general election was fellow Democrat Tim Bradford.

Primaries

Democratic

Republican

General election

Judicial elections

11 judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County were up for partisan elections due to vacancies. 72 circuit court judges had

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s. 15 subcircuit courts judgeships were also up for partisan elections due to vacancies. Multiple subcircuit judges had retention elections.

Other elections

Coinciding with the primaries, elections were held to elect both the Democratic and Republican

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for the suburban

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References

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