The 2022

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election saw all seventeen seats of the Cook County Board of Commissioners up for election to four-year terms. The election coincided with other 2022 Cook County, Illinois, elections (including an election for the president of the Board of Commissioners) with the

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s held on June 28, 2022 and the general election held on November 8, 2022. As this was the first elections held following the

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, the seats faced

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before this election. A new map was unanimously adopted by the Cook County Board of Commissioners in September 2021. Democrats won an increased majority with 16 seats, while Republicans won only a single seat (a net gain of one seat for Democrats and net loss of one seat for Republicans). Thirteen incumbent members won reelection (12 Democrats and 1 Republican). Three incumbent members did not seek reelection (2 Democrats and 1 Republican). One member (a Democrat) was unseated in their primary. A single seat, held by a retiring Republican, changed parties. The Democratic Party ran nominees for all seventeen seats. The Republican Party ran nominees for eleven seats, an increase from the eight seats they ran nominees for in 2018. The Libertarian Party, which had run no nominees in the 2018 election, ran nominees for four seats in 2022.

1st district

Incumbent 1st district commissioner

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, a Democrat, was reelected to a second term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidate ran in the Republican primary.

Libertarian primary

General election

2nd district

The incumbent 2nd district commissioner is Dennis Deer, a Democrat who was first appointed in 2017, was reelected to a second full term and third overall term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidate ran in the Republican primary. The Republican Party ultimately nominated Evan Kasal.

General election

3rd district

Incumbent 3rd district commissioner Bill Lowry, a Democrat, was reelected to a second term. He was unopposed in both the Democratic primary and general election.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidate ran in the Republican primary.

General election

4th district

The incumbent 4th District commissioner is Stanley Moore, a Democrat, was reelected to a third full (fourth overall) term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidate ran in the Republican primary. Republicans ultimately nominated Lynn Franco.

General election

5th district

Democrat Monica Gordon was elected to the 5th district seat. The incumbent 5th district commissioner was Deborah Sims, a seventh-term Democrat who did not seek reelection.

Democratic primary

Monica Gordon, a trustee of

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, won the primary. She was endorsed by retiring incumbent Debora Sims.

Republican primary

No candidate ran in the Republican primary.

Libertarian nomination

The Libertarian Party nominated Jason Decker.

General election

6th district

Incumbent 6th district commissioner

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, a Democrat, was reelected to a second term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidate ran in the Republican primary.

Libertarian nomination

The Libertarian Party nominated Anna Biedrzycki.

General election

7th district

Incumbent 7th district commissioner is Alma Anaya, a Democrat, was reelected to a second term. She was unopposed in both the Democratic primary and the general election.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidate ran in the Republican primary.

General election

8th district

Anthony Joel Quezada was elected to the 8th district seat, being unopposed in the general election. Incumbent 8th district commissioner is Luis Arroyo Jr., a second-term Democrat, was defeated for renomination in the Democratic primary by Quezada.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidate ran in the Republican primary.

General election

9th district

Democratic nominee Maggie Trevor won the 9th district seat, flipping the longtime Republican seat to the Democratic Party. Incumbent 9th district commissioner is

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, a seventh-term Republican, did not seek reelection.

Democratic primary

Maggie Trevor won the Democratic nomination. Trevor had previously been the unsuccessful Democratic

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Democratic nominee for the 54th district seat in the

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Republican primary

General election

10th district

Incumbent 10th district commissioner

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, a Democrat, was reelected to a third full (fourth overall) term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidates ran in the Republican primary. The Republican Party ultimately nominated Laura Mary Kotelman.

General election

11th district

Incumbent 11th district commissioner

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, a Democrat, was reelected to a seventh full (eighth overall) term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

Libertarian primary

General election

12th district

Incumbent 12th district commissioner Bridget Degnen, a Democrat, was reelected to a second term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidates ran in the Republican primary. Republicans ultimately nominated Alice Hu.

General election

13th district

Democratic nominee Josina Morita was elected to the 13th district seat. Incumbent 13th district commissioner

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, a fifth-term Democrat, did not seek reelection.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

No candidates ran in the Republican primary. Republicans ultimately nominated Andrew Border.

General election

14th district

Incumbent 14th district commissioner is Scott R. Britton, a Democrat, was reelected to a second term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

General election

15th district

Incumbent 15th district commissioner is Kevin B. Morrison, was reelected to a second term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

General election

16th district

Incumbent 16th district commissioner is Frank Aguilar, a Democrat who was appointed in 2020, was elected to a full term.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

General election

17th district

Incumbent 17th district commissioner Sean M. Morrison, a Republican, was reelected to a second full (third overall) term. He was the only Republican nominee to win any Cook County partisan elections in 2022.

Democratic primary

Republican primary

General election

Summarizing statistics

References

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