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1998 general · November 3, 1998

1998 Illinois State Senate election results, district by district

Every Illinois State Senate district in the 1998 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Republicans controlled the chamber · 59 seats

After the electionD 28 · R 31
Races41
Changed party1
Unopposed49%20 races
Incumbents defeated0

Every district

D 18 · R 23

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
LD-1Antonio Munoz (D)Unopposed
LD-2Miguel Delvalle (D)Unopposed
LD-4Kimberly Lightford (D)74.5
LD-5Rickey R. Hendon (D)89.5
LD-7Walter W. Dudycz (R)14.5
LD-8Ira I. Silverstein (D)36.7
LD-10James A. Deleo (D)Unopposed
LD-11Louis S. Viverito (D)70.6
LD-13Barack Obama (D)78.3
LD-14Emil Jones Jr. (D)Unopposed
LD-16Donne E. Trotter (D)81.0
LD-17Lisa Madigan (D)Unopposed
LD-19William F. Mahar (R)13.6
LD-20Beverly Fawell (R)Unopposed
LD-22Thomas E. Walsh (R)25.2
LD-23James Philip (R)38.4
LD-25Doris C. Karpiel (R)Unopposed
LD-26William E. Peterson (R)Unopposed
LD-28Martin J. Butler (R)20.0
LD-29Kathleen K. Parker (R)9.1
LD-31Adeline Jay Geokaris (R)Unopposed
LD-32Dick Klemm (R)Unopposed
LD-34Dave Syverson (R)Unopposed
LD-35J. Bradley Burzynski (R)Unopposed
LD-37Todd Sieben (R)Unopposed
LD-38Patrick D. Welch (D)6.0
LD-40Debbie Defranceshalvorson (D)31.3
LD-41Kirk W. Dillard (R)Unopposed
LD-43Lawrence M. Walsh (D)27.7
LD-44John W. Maitland Jr. (R)99.0
LD-46George P. Shadid (D)Unopposed
LD-47Carl E. Hawkinson (R)Unopposed
LD-49Vince Demuzio (D)Unopposed
LD-50Larry K. Bomke (R)44.2
LD-51N. Duane Noland (R)23.1Flipped
LD-52Stanley B. Weaver (R)Unopposed
LD-53Judith A. Myers (R)42.7
LD-55Frank Watson (R)38.6
LD-56Evelyn M. Bowles (D)Unopposed
LD-58David S. Luechtefeld (R)9.1
LD-59James F. Rea (D)Unopposed

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