Internal divisions among Illinois Republicans were laid bare earlier this month when a group of far-right downstate GOP lawmakers aligned with Darren Bailey’s failed gubernatorial bid chastised suburban Republicans for not doing enough for the party.
In the costly and far larger Chicago media market, which covers nearly 70% of the state’s voters, the script was flipped — Rauner in 2018 outperformed Bailey’s November showing by more than 140,000 votes, the analysis found.
Looking more closely at county results by voting population, the state GOP analysis found that in Cook, DuPage, Lake, Will and Kane counties, Bailey fell short of Rauner’s 2018 vote total by more than 145,000 votes. Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey concedes on election night, Nov. 8, 2022, at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield.
Where Bailey excelled was in the roughly 74 of Illinois’ 102 counties with a voting population of 50,000 or fewer people. Bailey surpassed Rauner’s 2018 totals in the state’s smallest downstate counties by about 90,000 votes, the analysis found.Advertisement Results from DuPage County, once the center of suburban Republicanism, were especially telling. Bailey lost to Pritzker by more than 51,000 votes in DuPage, and GOP challengers in several congressional districts lost to Democratic incumbents by a total of more than 45,000 votes.
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