Chapter 10 — ELECTIONS

(10 ILCS 5/7-49) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-49) Sec. 7-49. After the opening of the polls at a primary no adjournment shall be had nor recess taken until the canvass of all the votes is completed and the returns carefully enveloped and sealed. Where voting machines or electronic voting…

(10 ILCS 5/7-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-5) Sec. 7-5. (a) Primary elections shall be held on the dates prescribed in Article 2A. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute, no primary shall be held for an established political party in any township, municipality, or ward…

(10 ILCS 5/7-50) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-50) Sec. 7-50. The votes shall be canvassed in the room or place where the primary is held and the primary judges shall not allow the ballot box or any of the ballots, or the primary poll book, or any of the tally sheets to be removed or carr…

(10 ILCS 5/7-51) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-51) Sec. 7-51. If the primary elector marks more names upon the primary ballot than there are persons to be nominated as candidates for an office, or for State central committeepersons, or precinct committeepersons, or township committeeperso…

(10 ILCS 5/7-52) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-52) Sec. 7-52. Immediately upon closing the polls, the primary judges shall proceed to canvass the votes in the manner following: (1) They shall separate and count the ballots of each political party. (2) They shall then proceed to ascertain …

(10 ILCS 5/7-53) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-53) Sec. 7-53. As soon as the ballots of a political party shall have been read and the votes of the political party counted, as provided in the last above section, the 3 judges in charge of the tally sheets shall foot up the tally sheets so …

(10 ILCS 5/7-54) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-54) Sec. 7-54. After the votes of a political party have been counted and set down and the tally sheets footed and the entry made in the primary poll books or return, as above provided, all the primary ballots of said political party, except …

(10 ILCS 5/7-55) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-55) Sec. 7-55. The primary poll books or the official poll record, and the tally sheets with the certificates of the primary judges written thereon, together with the envelopes containing the ballots, including the envelope containing the bal…

(10 ILCS 5/7-56) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-56) Sec. 7-56. As soon as complete returns are delivered to the proper election authority, the returns shall be canvassed for all primary elections as follows. The election authority acting as the canvassing board pursuant to Section 1-8 of t…

(10 ILCS 5/7-56.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-56.1) Sec. 7-56.1. The county clerk or board of election commissioners shall, upon request, and by mail if so requested, furnish free of charge to any candidate for State office, including State Senator and Representative in the General Ass…

(10 ILCS 5/7-56.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-56.2) Sec. 7-56.2. The provisions of this Article 7 governing the conduct of primaries for the nomination of officers of units of local government at the consolidated primary of odd numbered years, shall also govern the conduct of those mun…

(10 ILCS 5/7-57) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-57) Sec. 7-57. The death of any candidate prior to, or on, the date of the primary shall not affect the canvass of the ballots. If the result of such canvass discloses that such candidate, if he had lived, would have been nominated, such cand…

(10 ILCS 5/7-58) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-58) Sec. 7-58. Each county clerk or board of election commissioners shall, upon completion of the canvassing of the returns, make and transmit to the State Board of Elections and to each election authority whose duty it is to print the offici…

(10 ILCS 5/7-59) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-59) Sec. 7-59. (a) The person receiving the highest number of votes at a primary as a candidate of a party for the nomination for an office shall be the candidate of that party for such office, and his name as such candidate shall be placed o…

(10 ILCS 5/7-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-6) Sec. 7-6. The expense of conducting each primary, including the per diem of judges, furnishing, warming, lighting and maintaining the polling place, and all other expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation for or conducting such prima…

(10 ILCS 5/7-60) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-60) Sec. 7-60. Not less than 74 days before the date of the general election, the State Board of Elections shall certify to the county clerks the names of each of the candidates who have been nominated as shown by the proclamation of the Stat…

(10 ILCS 5/7-60.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-60.1) Sec. 7-60.1. Certification of candidates - consolidated election. Each local election official of a political subdivision in which candidates for the respective local offices are nominated at the consolidated primary shall, no later t…

(10 ILCS 5/7-61) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-61) Sec. 7-61. Whenever a special election is necessary, the provisions of this Article are applicable to the nomination of candidates to be voted for at such special election. In cases where a primary election is required, the officer or boa…

(10 ILCS 5/7-62) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-62) Sec. 7-62. In cities having a board of election commissioners, the duties herein imposed upon the county, city, incorporated town or village clerk, as the case may be, shall be discharged by the board of election commissioners in the same…

(10 ILCS 5/7-63) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-63) Sec. 7-63. Any candidate whose name appears upon the primary ballot of any political party may contest the election of the candidate or candidates nominated for the office for which he or she was a candidate by his or her political party,…

(10 ILCS 5/7-64) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-64) Sec. 7-64. Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to prevent the nomination of independent candidates by petition, as is now or may hereafter be provided by this Act or any other law. (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)

(10 ILCS 5/7-65) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-65) Sec. 7-65. The invalidity of any portion of this Article 7 shall not affect the validity of any other portion hereof, which can be given effect without such invalid part. (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 253.)

(10 ILCS 5/7-66) Sec. 7-66. Precinct tabulation optical scan technology voting equipment. If the election authority has adopted the use of Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology voting equipment pursuant to Article 24B of this Code, and the provisions of the Article are in c…

(10 ILCS 5/7-67) Sec. 7-67. Nominations; regional superintendents of schools. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, this Section shall apply only to the making of nominations for established party candidates for regional superintendent of schools in the 2014 g…

(10 ILCS 5/7-68) Sec. 7-68. Nominations for special election for Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, or Treasurer. (a) Whenever a special election for the office of Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, or Treasurer is to be held pursuant to Section 25…

(10 ILCS 5/7-7) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-7) Sec. 7-7. For the purpose of making nominations in certain instances as provided in this Article and this Act, the following committees are authorized and shall constitute the central or managing committees of each political party, viz: A S…

(10 ILCS 5/7-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-8) Sec. 7-8. The State central committee shall be composed of one or two members from each congressional district in the State and shall be elected as follows: State Central Committee (a) Within 30 days after January 1, 1984 (the effective dat…

(10 ILCS 5/7-8.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-8.01) Sec. 7-8.01. The county board district committee of each political party in each county board district created pursuant to "An Act relating to the composition and election of county boards in certain counties", enacted by the 76th Gen…

(10 ILCS 5/7-8.02) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-8.02) Sec. 7-8.02. The State's Attorney committee for each group of counties which jointly elect a State's Attorney and the Superintendent of Multi-County Educational Service Region committee for each group of counties which jointly elect a…

(10 ILCS 5/7-8.03) Sec. 7-8.03. State central committees; discrimination and harassment policies. No later than 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, each State central committee of an established statewide political party shall es…

(10 ILCS 5/7-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-9) Sec. 7-9. County central committee; county and State conventions. (a) For a State central committee organized under Alternative A, on the 29th day next succeeding the primary at which committeepersons are elected, the county central committ…

(10 ILCS 5/7-9.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-9.1) Sec. 7-9.1. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever a vacancy exists in the office of delegate to a State or national nominating convention by reason of death or for any other reason, then the alternate receiving the high…

(10 ILCS 5/7A-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7A-1) Sec. 7A-1. Any Supreme, Appellate or Circuit Judge who has been elected to that office and who seeks to be retained in that office under subsection (d) of Section 12 of Article VI of the Constitution shall file a declaration of candidacy …

(10 ILCS 5/8-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-1) Sec. 8-1. The nomination of all candidates for members of the General Assembly by all political parties as defined in Section 8-2 of this article shall be made in the manner provided in this article 8 and not otherwise. The name of no perso…

(10 ILCS 5/8-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-10) Sec. 8-10. Except as otherwise provided in this Code, not less than 68 days prior to the date of the primary, the State Board of Elections shall certify to the county clerk for each county, the names of all candidates for legislative offi…

(10 ILCS 5/8-11) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-11) Sec. 8-11. The county clerk of each county or the board of election commissioners, as the case may be, shall prepare and cause to be printed the primary ballot of each political party for each precinct in his respective county, and the na…

(10 ILCS 5/8-12) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-12) Sec. 8-12. The State Board of Elections shall, in its certificate to the county clerk, certify to the county clerk the position which the names of candidates for legislative offices shall occupy upon the primary ballot with reference to t…

(10 ILCS 5/8-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-15) Sec. 8-15. Except as in this article otherwise expressly provided, all of the provisions of Article 7 of this Act and acts hereafter passed amendatory thereof, shall, so far as the same may be applicable, apply to and govern primary elect…

(10 ILCS 5/8-16) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-16) Sec. 8-16. Nothing in this article contained shall be construed to prevent the nomination of independent candidates by petition, as is now or may hereafter be provided by this act. (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)

(10 ILCS 5/8-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-17) Sec. 8-17. The death of any candidate prior to, or on, the date of the primary shall not affect the canvass of the ballots. If the result of such canvass discloses that such candidate, if he had lived, would have been nominated, such cand…

(10 ILCS 5/8-17.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-17.1) Sec. 8-17.1. Whenever a vacancy in the office of State Senator is to be filled by election pursuant to Article IV, Section 2(d) of the Constitution and Section 25-6 of this Code, nominations shall be made and any vacancy in nomination…

(10 ILCS 5/8-2) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-2) Sec. 8-2. The term "political party" as used in this article shall mean a political party which, at the next preceding election for governor, polled at least five per cent of the entire vote cast in the State; Provided, that no political or…

(10 ILCS 5/8-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-3) Sec. 8-3. The following words and phrases in this article shall, unless the same be inconsistent with the context, be construed as follows: (1) The terms "legislative office", "legislative officer" or "legislator" shall mean a State Senator…

(10 ILCS 5/8-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-4) Sec. 8-4. The nomination of candidates for legislative offices shall be made at the general primary election. (Source: P.A. 95-6, eff. 6-20-07.)

(10 ILCS 5/8-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-5) Sec. 8-5. Legislative committees; representative committees. There shall be constituted one legislative committee for each political party in each legislative district and one representative committee for each political party in each repres…

(10 ILCS 5/8-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-6) Sec. 8-6. In legislative or representative districts wholly contained within counties having 2,000,000 or more inhabitants each member of each legislative or representative committee shall in its organization and proceedings be entitled to …

(10 ILCS 5/8-7) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-7) Sec. 8-7. The various political party committees now in existence are hereby recognized and shall exercise the powers and perform the duties herein prescribed until committeepersons are chosen, in accordance with the provisions of this Arti…

(10 ILCS 5/8-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-8) Sec. 8-8. Form of petition for nomination. The name of no candidate for nomination shall be printed upon the primary ballot unless a petition for nomination shall have been filed in his behalf as provided for in this Section. Each such peti…

(10 ILCS 5/8-8.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-8.1) Sec. 8-8.1. In the designation of the name of a candidate on a petition for nomination, the candidate's given name or names, initial or initials, a nickname by which the candidate is commonly known, or a combination thereof, may be used…

(10 ILCS 5/8-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-9) Sec. 8-9. All petitions for nomination shall be filed by mail or in person as follows: (1) Where the nomination is made for a legislative office, such petition for nomination shall be filed in the principal office of the State Board of Elec…