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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 4, 2014. Primaries were held March 18, 2014. Elections were held for Assessor,
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President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners The President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is the Chief executive officer, chief executive of county government in Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, Illinois. They are the head of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. The presi ...
, all 17 seats of the
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, Cook County Board of Review seat 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

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 Democratic, 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
Cook County Assessor The Cook County Assessor is the Assessor (property), assessor and county government officer of Cook County, Illinois. Office description Before the creation of the position of Cook County Assessor in 1932, the Cook County Board of Assessors com ...
election, incumbent first-term Assessor
Joseph Berrios Joseph "Joe" Berrios (born February 14, 1952) is an American Democratic politician who was the Assessor and Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party of Cook County, Illinois, as well as a registered Illinois state government lobbyist. H ...
, 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 Cook County Clerk election, incumbent sixth-term Clerk David Orr, 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
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election, incumbent second-term Sheriff
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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


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
President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners The President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is the Chief executive officer, chief executive of county government in Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, Illinois. They are the head of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. The presi ...
election, incumbent first-term President Toni Preckwinkle, 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 Cook County Board of Commissioners 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
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before this election.


Cook County Board of Review

In the 2014 Cook County Board of Review 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


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=Republican

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


General election


Water Reclamation District Board

In the 2014 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago 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
retention election A retention election or retention referendum is a referendum where voters are asked if an office holder, usually a judge, should be allowed to continue in that office. The judge is removed from office if a majority of votes are cast against rete ...
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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s.


See also

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2014 Illinois elections A general election was held in the U.S. state of Illinois on November 4, 2014. All of Illinois' executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of Illinois' eighteen seats in the United States House of Re ...


References

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