Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 Elections: Article 7 - The Making Of Nominations By Political Parties

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-1
  Application of Article. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, the nomination of all candidates for all elective State, congressional, judicial, and county...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-2
  A political party, which at the general election for State and county officers then next preceding a primary, polled more than 5 per cent...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-3
  In determining the total vote of a political party, whenever required by this Article 7, the test shall be the total vote cast by...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-4
  The following words and phrases in this Article 7 shall, unless the same be inconsistent with the context, be construed as follows: 1. The...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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:...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-9
  County central committee; county and State conventions. (a) On the 29th day next succeeding the primary at which committeemen are elected, the county central committee...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-10
  Form of petition for nomination. The name of no candidate for nomination, or State central committeeman, or township committeeman, or precinct committeeman, or ward committeeman...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-10.1
  Each petition or certificate of nomination shall include as a part thereof, a statement for each of the candidates filing, or in whose behalf...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-10.2
  In the designation of the name of a candidate on a petition for nomination or certificate of nomination the candidate's given name or names, initial...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-10.3
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (C) of this Section, a candidate for delegate or alternate delegate to a national nominating convention shall...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-11
  Any candidate for President of the United States may have his name printed upon the primary ballot of his political party by filing in the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-11.1
  Whenever a vacancy in any elective county office is to be filled by election pursuant to Section 25-11 of this Code, nominations shall be...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-12
  All petitions for nomination shall be filed by mail or in person as follows: (1) Where the nomination is to be made for a State,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-12.1
  The provisions of Sections 10-8 through 10-10.1 relating to objections to certificates of nomination and nomination papers, hearings on objections, and judicial review, shall...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-13
  The board of election commissioners in cities of 500,000 or more population having such board, shall constitute an electoral board for the hearing and passing...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-13.1
  Certification of Candidates-Consolidated primary. Not less than 68 days before the date of the consolidated primary, each local election official of each political subdivision required...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-14
  Not less than 68 days before the date of the general primary the State Board of Elections shall meet and shall examine all petitions filed...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-14.1
  Delegates and alternate delegates to national nominating conventions shall be chosen according to one of the following alternative methods of allocating delegates for election. The...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-14.2
  Delegates and alternate delegates to national conventions other than national nominating conventions shall be chosen according to procedures established by the appropriate State central...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-14a
  Where there are 2 or more additional judgeships created in any judicial district or circuit, to be filled at the same general election and...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-15
  At least 60 days prior to each general and consolidated primary, the election authority shall provide public notice, calculated to reach elderly and handicapped voters,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-16
  Each election authority in each county shall prepare and cause to be printed the primary ballot of each political party for each precinct in...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-17
  Candidate ballot name procedures. (a) Each election authority in each county shall cause to be printed upon the general primary ballot of each party for...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-18
  The primary ballot of each political party shall be separately printed upon paper of uniform quality, texture and size, but the primary ballot of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-19
  The primary ballot of each political party for each precinct shall be arranged and printed substantially in the manner following: 1. Designating words. At the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-20
  On the back or outside of the primary ballot of each precinct, so as to appear when folded, shall be printed the words "Primary...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-21
  The election authority shall transmit or cause to be delivered to the primary judges, and to the respective local election officials prior to the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-22
  Primary ballot boxes shall be furnished by the same authorities and in the same manner and shall be of the same style and description...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-23
  All necessary primary poll books, official poll records, tally sheets, return blanks, stationery and other necessary primary supplies shall be furnished by the same...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-24
  The primary poll books shall be substantially in the following form: Primary poll books of the primary held in the .... precinct of the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-25
  The tally sheets for each political party participating in the primary election shall be substantially in the following form: "Tally sheet for ....(name of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-26
  The judges of general elections for state and county officers are hereby constituted the judges of primary elections in their respective precincts, under the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-27
  It is hereby made the duty of the respective judges of general elections to act as judges of primary elections in their respective precincts...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-28
  If, at the time for opening of a primary, one of the primary judges be absent, or refuse to act, the judges present shall...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-30
  Previous to any vote being taken, the primary judges shall severally subscribe and take an oath or affirmation in the following form, to-wit: "I...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-31
  In case there is no notary public present at the opening of a primary, or in case such notary public is appointed one of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-32
  The primary judges, except as otherwise provided in this article, shall perform the same duties, have the same powers, and be subject to the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-33
  Primary judges shall receive the same pay, and shall be paid by the same authorities and in the same manner as judges of general...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-34
  Pollwatchers in a primary election shall be authorized in the following manner: (1) Each established political party shall be entitled to appoint one pollwatcher per...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-35
  The election authority shall cause to be delivered to the primary judges of each precinct not less than 12 hours before the time fixed...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-36
  The official primary ballots shall be put in separate sealed packages with marks on the outside thereof clearly designating the precinct for which they...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-37
  The election authority shall provide and retain in his office until after the primary, an ample supply of extra primary ballots for each political...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-38
  The primaries herein provided for shall be held at the regular polling places now established, or which may hereafter be established, for the purposes...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-39
  Upon the opening of the polls one of the primary judges shall make proclamation of the same. And at least thirty (30) minutes before...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-40
  (a) Before voting begins, the ballot box shall be emptied and shall be opened and shown to those present to be empty, after which...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-41
  (a) All officers upon whom is imposed by law the duty of designating and providing polling places for general elections, shall provide in each such...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-42
  Any person entitled to vote at such primary shall, on the day of such primary, with the consent of his employer be entitled to...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-43
  Every person having resided in this State 6 months and in the precinct 30 days next preceding any primary therein who shall be a citizen...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-44
  Any person desiring to vote at a primary shall state his name, residence and party affiliation to the primary judges, one of whom shall...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-45
  Whenever a person offering to vote at a primary is challenged, and is not personally known to the judges of election to have the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-46
  On receiving from the primary judges a primary ballot of his party, the primary elector shall forthwith and without leaving the polling place, retire alone...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-47
  Before leaving the booth, the primary elector shall fold his primary ballot in such manner as to conceal the marks thereon. Such voter shall...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-47.1
  (a) In the case of an emergency, as determined by the State Board of Elections, or if the Board determines that all potential polling...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-48
  Any primary elector who may declare upon oath, properly witnessed and with his or her signature or mark affixed, that he or she requires...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 7-100
  Definition of a vote. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, for the purpose of this Article, a person casts a valid vote on a...

Last modified: February 18, 2015