The
Cook County, Illinois
Cook County is the List of counties in Illinois, most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, C ...
, general election was held on November 2, 2004.
Primaries were held March 16, 2004.
Elections were held for
Clerk of the Circuit Court,
Recorder of Deeds
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,
State's Attorney
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,
Board of Review district 3, three seats on the
Water Reclamation District Board, and judgeships on the
Circuit Court of Cook County
The Circuit Court of Cook County is the largest of the 25 Illinois circuit courts, circuit courts (trial courts of original jurisdiction, original and general jurisdiction) in the judiciary of Illinois as well as one of the largest unified cour ...
.
Election information
2004 was a
presidential election year in the United States. The primaries and general elections for Cook County races coincided with those for federal races (
President
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,
House
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, and
Senate
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) and those for
state elections.
Voter turnout
Primary election
Voter turnout in Cook County during the primaries was 35.02%. The city of
Chicago
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saw 38.58% turnout and suburban Cook County saw 31.34% turnout.
General election
The general election saw 74.75% turnout, with 2,088,727 ballots cast. Chicago saw 75.13% turnout and suburban Cook County saw 74.36% turnout.
Clerk of the Circuit Court
In the 2004
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County
The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County is the Court clerk, clerk of Circuit Court of Cook County, located in Cook County, Illinois.
Office description
The office was first established in 1831, the year that Cook County was created. In 18 ...
election, incumbent first-term Clerk
Dorothy A. Brown, a Democrat, was reelected.
Primaries
Democratic
Republican
General election
;Endorsements
;Results
Recorder of Deeds
In the 2004
Cook County Recorder of Deeds
The Cook County Recorder of Deeds was the recorder of deeds of county government in Cook County, Illinois, prior to the position's abolishment in 2020.
History of office
An early incarnation of a dedicated county recorder of deeds was establish ...
election, incumbent Recorder of Deeds
Eugene Moore, a Democrat, was reelected. Moore had first been appointed in 1999 (after
Jesse White resigned to become
Illinois Secretary of State
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), and had been elected to a full-term in 2000.
Primaries
Democratic
Republican
General election
Republican nominee Cox had declared that his intent in seeking the office was to push for its elimination, as he argued that the office was an unnecessary duplication of services and had become a "model of waste and corruption".
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State's Attorney
In the 2004 Cook County State's Attorney
The Cook County State's Attorney is the District attorney, chief prosecutor for Cook County, Illinois. The State's Attorney oversees the second-largest prosecutor's office in the United States, with over 600 attorneys and 1,200 employees. The off ...
election, incumbent second-term State's Attorney Richard A. Devine, a Democrat, was reelected.
Primaries
Democratic
In the Democratic primary, incumbent Dick Devine defeated challenger Tommy H. Brewer (who had previously, in 1994
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, run unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination Cook County Sheriff
The Cook County Sheriff is the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, heading the Cook County Sheriff's Office.
Office description
Terms are currently four-years in length.
Officeholders
Election results
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Republican
General election
;Endorsements
;Results
Cook County Board of Review
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election, one seat, Democratic-held, was up for election. The incumbent won reelection.
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 second-term member Robert Shaw, a Democrat last reelected in 2002, lost reelection, being unseated by in the Democratic primary by Larry R. Rogers, Jr., who went on to win the general election unopposed. Rogers' margin-of-victory over Shaw in the Democratic primary was narrow, at 1,087 votes (equal to 0.37 of votes cast). This election was to a four-year term.
Primaries
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No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.
General election
Water Reclamation District Board
In the 2004 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
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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 at-large
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election.
Judicial elections
Pasrtisan elections were held for judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County due to vacancies. Retention election
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s were also held for the Circuit Court.
Other elections
Coinciding with the primaries, elections were held to elect both the Democratic and Republican committeemen
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for the wards of Chicago.
See also
* 2004 Illinois elections
The Illinois general election was held on November 2, 2004.
Primaries were held March 16, 2004.
Election information Turnout
Primary election
For the primary election, turnout was 28.97%, with 2,067,824 votes cast.
Turnout by county
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References
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Cook County
Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40 percent of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. ...
Cook County, Illinois elections
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