<body><div>By Randy Pierce • Election results in Madison County indicate that, with some exceptions, voters within its boundaries were not part of the widely-reported “blue wave” of Democratic dominance as seen in many parts of the United States on Nov. 3. As of late last week, when the office of County Clerk Linda Andreas had compiled the totals from all 191 polling places in the county, with over 50% of registered voters’ choices recorded, Republican candidates, excluding one running for secretary of state, in Illinois races earned more support on those local ballots cast than their Democratic opponents.Madison County totals, at the juncture as referenced herein, revealed the favoring of Darren Bailey in the race for governor by a margin of about four percent over the incumbent Democrat, JB Pritzker, who earned re-election, while other state Republican candidates with similar totals at the county level included Robert Fioretti, who was defeated by incumbent Attorney General Kwame Raoul; Bryan Drew who lost to the newly-elected comptroller, Margaret Crowe; and Max Solomon who failed in his effort against the incumbent treasurer, Michael Frerichs.In the contest for Illinois secretary of state, however, the incumbent victor, Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat, had more votes in Madison County, close to 51%, than Diane Harris who had challenged him. The race for United States Senator, which pitted Democrat Juliana Stratton against Don Tracy, a Republican, saw the former prevailing statewide but the latter getting slightly more votes in Madison County.A Democrat who got a higher margin of support in Madison County, re-elected United States House of Representatives member, Nikki Budzinski, according to the numbers from Andreas’ office, had 57% of the votes at this more local level compared to close to 43% for challenger Jeff Wilson.A similar and slightly higher total of difference exists in the votes for Republican Representative Mary Miller, who has been re-elected, with 59% of those cast in Madison County compared to 41% for Democrat Jennifer Todd.The mixed results in the Illinois General Assembly races where Madison County voters were concerned saw Republican Amy Elik, for District 111, victorious overall, win fairly easily over Democrat Rosetta “Rosie” Brown by a margin of 51% to 49% but the outcome for the same position in District 112 found the incumbent Democrat, Katie Stuart of Edwardsville, taking another term for her seat by winning with support from over 60% of the county’s voters against a much lesser number for Jimmy Ford of O’Fallon as this district additionally takes in an area of St. Clair County to the south. Republican Charlie Meier was unopposed in getting re-elected as Illinois District 109 state representative.Where the absence of a prevalent “blue wave” was most noticeable in Madison County was in its elected board member races with Republicans dominating most, but not all, of them.In Highland, in a contest to fill a county board seat vacated by Fred Michael, who decided not to run for re-election, Republican Jennifer Korte took over two-thirds of the votes to defeat Democrat Barbara Hosto-Marte. Representing Madison County Board District 4 that takes in part of the Highland area along with St. Jacob, Marine plus other small communities and unincorporated areas, Republican Bobby Ross also won by a significant margin with close to 70% of the votes in his favor over the Democrat challenger, Robert Hubbard. Another Republican reelected to the county board, Ronald Simpson of Troy, had 56% of the votes compared to those gained by his Democratic challenger, Zachary Sandefer. Very closely matching those numbers, an incumbent county board member with residency in Troy, Dalton Gray, a Republican, won against a challenge from Democrat Rachel King.Republican County Board incumbents representing other districts who won re-election over Democrat opposition included Frank Dickerson of Worden along with Michael “Mick” Madison and Chrissy Wiley, both of Bethalto. A Republican county board victory has transpired in District 21 which takes in an area of Granite City where John Eric Foster earned close to 60% of the vote over Democrat Jeremy Huston in a race to fill a seat vacated by incumbent John Janek. The only two contested county board races where Democrats won were in Granite City District 16 as Amy Mohme’s 52.5% of the vote was enough for her to take the seat away from Republican incumbent Robert Meyer while popular Democrat incumbent Bill Stoutenborough of Alton had over 58% of the vote in staving off the challenge from Republican Michael Smith.One election for a seat on the county board that indicated numbers where it was too close to call a victor as of last Friday, but, no matter what the outcome, would not affect the Republican majority dominance of that body, saw Republican Justin Warren and Democrat Angelia Gower being very close to 50-50% in their accumulated votes for the District 19 seat left open when Nick Petrillo, a Democrat, decided to not seek re-election. Yet another example of how Republicans did not totally dominate the county election can be found in the race for judge in Subcircuit 2 with Democrat Marc Parker earning the position with 56% of the vote against Patrick King, a Republican.A county-wide race that saw a Republican come out on top resulted in the incumbent clerk, Linda Andreas, getting re-elected, earning 53% of the vote total over the challenge from Democrat Rachelle Nicole Bauerle. Incumbent Republicans in Madison County re-elected without opposition included Treasurer Mike Babcock, Regional Superintendent of Schools Nancy Werden and Sheriff Jeff Connor.</div></body>

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By Randy Pierce • Election results in Madison County indicate that, with some exceptions, voters within its boundaries were not part of the widely-reported “blue wave” of Democratic dominance as seen in many parts of the United States on Nov. 3. As of late last week, when...

Blue Wave mostly misses Madison County in mid-term elections

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By Randy Pierce • Election results in Madison County indicate that, with some exceptions, voters within its boundaries were not part of the widely-reported

Blue Wave mostly misses Madison County in mid-term elections

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