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ILLINOIS's STATE LAWS REGARDING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

  • Electoral College Votes Count: 20
  • Alocation Type: winner-takes-all
  • Electors Must Pledge: no

Elector Pledge and Electoral College Votes Allocation​

Illinois is one of the 48 states that have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state’s Electoral votes.Illinois is one of the states that do not require their electors to vote as pledged.

Election Code: 10 Ill. Comp. Stat. §§5/7-9, 5/21-1, 5/21-4,5/21-5

How Does Illinois Select Its Electors?​

  • The State convention of each political party, if the party chooses to hold a State convention, has power to make nominations of candidates of its political party for the electors of President and Vice President of the United States. In each year in which a President and Vice- President of the United States are chosen, each political party or group in the State shall choose by its State Convention or State central committee electors of President and Vice-President of the United States and such State Convention or State central committee of such party or group shall also choose electors at large, if any are to be appointed for the State and such State Convention or State central committee of such party or group shall by its chairman and secretary certify the total list of such electors together with electors at large so chosen to the State Board of Elections.

When Do The Electors Vote?​

  • The electors shall meet at the office of the Secretary of State in a room to be designated by the Secretary in the Capitol at Springfield in this State, at the time appointed by the laws of the United States at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, and give their votes for President and for Vice-President of the United States, and perform such duties as are or may be required by law.

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