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1988 general · November 8, 1988

1988 Illinois State Senate election results, district by district

Every Illinois State Senate district in the 1988 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Democrats controlled the chamber · 59 seats

After the electionD 31 · R 28
Races39
Changed party0
Unopposed23%9 races
Incumbents defeated0

Every district

D 21 · R 18

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Howard W. Carroll (D)31.2
LD-3William A. Marovitz (D)41.5
LD-4Dawn Clark Netsch (D)28.3
LD-6Thaddeus Lechowicz (D)49.9
LD-7Walter W. Dudycz (R)30.9
LD-9Earlean Collins (D)64.3
LD-10John A. Darco Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-12Margaret Smith (D)91.7
LD-13Richard H. Newhouse (D)Unopposed
LD-15Frank D. Savicaks (D)20.2
LD-16Ethel Skyles Alexander (D)Unopposed
LD-18Howard B. Brookins (D)69.7
LD-19William F. Mahar (R)45.8
LD-21Forest D. Etheredge (R)37.4
LD-22Judy Baar Topinka (R)49.4
LD-24Robert M. Raica (R)12.0
LD-25Doris C. Karpiel (R)Unopposed
LD-27Virginia B. Macdonald (R)58.9
LD-28Bob Kustra (R)39.5
LD-30David Barkhausen (R)50.3
LD-31Adeline Jay Geokaris (R)32.9
LD-33John E. Friedland (R)Unopposed
LD-34Joyce Holmberg (D)6.2
LD-36Denny Jacobs (D)36.8
LD-37Calvin W. Schuneman (R)6.8
LD-39Richard F. Kelly Jr. (D)25.1
LD-40Aldo A. Deangelis (R)32.2
LD-42Thomas A. Dunn (D)1.7
LD-43Jerome J. Joyce (D)15.3
LD-45Robert A. Madigan (R)Unopposed
LD-46Richard Luft (D)Unopposed
LD-48Laura Kent Donahue (R)20.8
LD-49Vince Demuzio (D)31.6
LD-51Penny L. Severns (D)25.1
LD-52Stanley B. Weaver (R)Unopposed
LD-54William L. Odaniel (D)21.5
LD-55Frank Watson (R)28.1
LD-57Kenneth Hall (D)Unopposed
LD-58Ralph Dunn (R)23.9

Illinois State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner