2014 Illinois gubernatorial election

2014 Illinois gubernatorial election

November 4, 2014
Turnout	48.48% 1.21 pp
Nominee Bruce Rauner Pat Quinn Party Republican Democratic Running mate Evelyn Sanguinetti Paul Vallas Popular vote 1,823,627 1,681,343 Percentage 50.27% 46.35%
County results Congressional district results Township results Rauner:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90% Quinn:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90% Tie:            No votes
Governor before election Pat Quinn Democratic Elected Governor Bruce Rauner Republican

The 2014 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 2014, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Illinois.

Incumbent Democratic governor Pat Quinn ran for re-election to a second full term in office. He narrowly won a full term in 2010. Quinn won the Democratic primary, while the Republicans chose businessman Bruce Rauner and the Libertarians nominated political activist Chad Grimm.

Rauner beat Quinn in the general election with 50.3% of the vote to Quinn's 46.4%, winning every county in the state except for Cook County, home to the city of Chicago and 40% of the state's residents.^[1][2]