By Townhall Chicago News Staff
Illinois Republicans lost seats in the state Senate and House in Tuesday’s elections, Amy Jacobson, a host of a Chicago-area radio program, said Thursday.
Jacobson said Republicans lost six seats in the state House and seven in the state Senate, where the caucus dropped from 19 to 13 members. Based on those numbers, the Senate loss would be six seats, not seven.
John Kraft, co-founder of Edgar County Watchdogs, a downstate government watchdog group, said the results reflect turnout, not candidate quality. “You get what you vote for,” Kraft said. “Until we hit absolute rock bottom, nothing’s going to change because the Republicans need to get out and vote.”
Jacobson asked whether Gov. JB Pritzker’s margin of victory was about 1.1 million votes. Jeannie Ives, her cohost, said she believed the margin had “probably doubled” since Pritzker’s 2022 reelection campaign, when he defeated Republican Darren Bailey.
Kraft described this year’s Republican nominee for governor as a controversial candidate, without elaborating.
Full, certified results from the Illinois State Board of Elections were not available Thursday. The board typically certifies results in the weeks following an election.
