Just under 26% of all registered Chicago voters cast ballots in the primary election.
Yvonne Tolbert votes at Windy City Motors in Chicago during Illinois primary election on March 19, 2024,
Antinisha Sturgeon, right, helps her grandfather, Ben Walker, vote during the Illinois primary election on March 19, 2024, at Marshall High School in Chicago. Basia Toczydlowska, right, a technician with the Chicago Board of Elections, inspects a ballot box that was malfunctioning along with Kevin Bess, an election judge, during the Illinois primary election on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at Marshall High School in Chicago.
Jessica Bloom, left, and Gretchen Emner vote during the primary election at the Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 in Chicago on March 19, 2024. After voting, Lawrence Weisler and his 6-year-old son, James Weisler, walk past voting booths at the Chicago Board of Elections’ Loop Super Site the day before Illinois’ primary Election Day on March 18, 2024.
Campaign signs are seen outside of the Humboldt Park Chicago Public Library during a “Humboldt Park March to the Polls” campaign event on March 9, 2024, in Chicago. City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, candidate for Congress in the 7th District in Illinois, greets supporters with her daughter, Geneva Ervin, 7, in red, during a “Get Out The Vote” celebration featuring Chicago artists and choirs on March 17, 2024, at Harmony Community Church in Chicago.
Dozens of high school students from various high schools take part in parade march down Lake Street after leaving a forum at the Chicago Teachers Union headquarters in Chicago, Friday, March 15, 2024, and marching to Union Park to vote. The Student Power Forum is organized by Chicago Votes, La Casa Norte, and the CTU.
Graciela Guzmán, candidate for State Senator, 20th District, smiles as people cheer for her during a “Humboldt Park March to the Polls” campaign event on March 9, 2024, in Chicago. Justice Jesse G. Reyes, candidate for the Illinois Supreme Court, talks with students outside an early voting polling place at the Oak Park Village Hall on March 7, 2024.
Ray Adams, a supporter of Clayton Harris III, candidate for Cook County State's Attorney, listens to speeches during a “Humboldt Park March to the Polls” campaign event on March 9, 2024, in Chicago. Still, the turnout rate in Chicago was higher than in suburban Cook County and Illinois as a whole. Turnout was just shy of 18% in the suburbs and 19% statewide, according to the Cook County clerk’s office and the Illinois State Board of Elections.
In fact, other than the 2012 election, 2024 saw the lowest turnout in a presidential primary going back 80 years — as far back as the Chicago Board of Elections has records.Voter turnout was generally higher on the North Side and in the lakefront wards, according to city election data, but the single ward with the highest turnout was where it usually is — in the 19th Ward on the Far Southwest Side where close to 42% of eligible voters cast ballots.
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