List of Democratic nominees for Governor of Illinois
Democratic nominees for Governor of Illinois:
Democratic-Republican/Adams/Jacksonian Era
- 1818 Shadrach Bond [1]
- 1822 Edward Coles [1]
- 1826 Ninian Edwards [2]
- 1830 John Reynolds [2]
- 1834 Joseph Duncan
Modern Democratic Party era
- 1838 Thomas Carlin
- 1842 Thomas Ford
- 1846 Augustus C. French
- 1848 Augustus C. French [3],[4]
- 1852 Joel Aldrich Matteson
- 1856 William Alexander Richardson
- 1860 James C. Allen
- 1864 James C. Robinson
- 1868 John R. Eden
- 1872 [5]
- 1876 Lewis Steward
- 1880 Lyman Trumbull
- 1884 Carter H. Harrison, Sr.
- 1888 John M. Palmer [6]
- 1892 John Peter Altgeld
- 1896 John Peter Altgeld [4]
- 1900 Samuel Alschuler
- 1904 Lawrence B. Stringer
- 1908 Adlai E. Stevenson I
- 1912 Edward F. Dunne
- 1916 Edward F. Dunne [4]
- 1920 James Hamilton Lewis
- 1924 Norman L. Jones
- 1928 Floyd E. Thompson
- 1932 Henry Horner
- 1936 Henry Horner [4]
- 1940 Harry Hershey
- 1944 Thomas J. Courtney
- 1948 Adlai E. Stevenson II
- 1952 Sherwood Dixon
- 1956 Richard Austin
- 1960 Otto Kerner, Jr.
- 1964 Otto Kerner, Jr.
- 1968 Samuel H. Shapiro [4]
- 1972 Daniel Walker
- 1976 Michael Howlett
- 1978 Michael Bakalis [7]
- 1982 Adlai E. Stevenson III
- 1986 [5],[8]
- 1990 Neil Hartigan
- 1994 Dawn Clark Netsch
- 1998 Glenn Poshard
- 2002 Rod Blagojevich
- 2006 Rod Blagojevich [4]
- 2010 Pat Quinn [4]
- 2014 Pat Quinn [4]
- 2018 J. B. Pritzker
Those in italics lost the general election.
Notes
- ^ a b Democratic-Republican
- ^ a b National Republican
- ^ Term of office changed by 1848 constitution
- ^ a b c d e f g h Incumbent
- ^ a b No candidate
- ^ Republican nominee for Governor of Illinois in 1868.
- ^ Term of office changed by 1970 constitution
- ^ Adlai E. Stevenson III originally won the Democratic nomination, but refused to run with the Lt. Governor nominee, a follower of Lyndon LaRouche. Stevenson withdrew as the Democratic candidate, leaving a vacancy in the nomination, and instead formed the Solidarity Party. The State Central Committee of the Illinois Democratic Party left the vacancy unfilled.