Here are the election results for referendums throughout McHenry County’s cities, townships and park districts. The more complete results for the McHenry High School District referendum to allow the borrowing of $44 million: … Continue reading
Category Archives: Election Results
Here are the Algonquin Township election results for Peter Roskam and Sean Casten: Party Candidate % Votes DEM SEAN CASTEN 52.14% 14,535 REP PETER J. ROSKAM 47.86% 13,342 Votes Cast 27,877 ALGONQUIN 1 ALGONQUIN 1 277 Party Candidate % … Continue reading
Five precincts vote at the Crystal Lake Park District’s Main Beach House. 1,164 people voted on election day in Algonquin Township Precincts 7, 13, 19, 25 and 36. Here are the totals by office, Republican listed first, that I thought … Continue reading
Coming after the election is information telling me that McHenry County Board Chairman made a robo-call on behalf of his Republican Precinct Committeeman ally Marengo Mayor Don Lockhart. Lockhart supported Franks in his run as a Democrat for McHenry County … Continue reading
There were five people running for the Marengo High School District 154 School Board. The four winners are Linda Dujmovich – 1,228 Todd Volkening – 1,161 Jodie Kanaly – 1,139 Pat Signore – 1,009 The fifth candidate with 828 votes … Continue reading
Basing election predictions on results in two precincts is risky, but there are some conclusions thast can be drawn from how people voted on election day in the two precincts that vote at the Crystal Lake Park District’s Main Beach … Continue reading
John Jacobson, Hebron’s Mayor who was arrested on drug charges last month, was asked by several village residents to resign, but he refused. In a statement after entering the Village Board’s meeting room right before the 7 PM starting time, … Continue reading
After the November, 2014, election, I wrote a story asking whether Independent Sheriff’s candidate Jim Harrison was really running for McHenry County State’s Attorney. You can read the article by clicking on its title below: Was Harrison Really Running for … Continue reading
A new tool from the McHenry County Clerk’s Office allows observers to look for voting trends as the election season progressed. One can see that Steve Reick did better in early and absentee voting than he did on Election Day … Continue reading
Last week I and commenters tried to answer the question, Why did Gottemoller Lose? in and under this article. Today examine this map and answer the question, Where did Walkup win? Which color represents each candidate? Remember, they are both … Continue reading
Appointed Judge James Cowlin won over 61% of the Republican Primary Election vote against Assistant State’s Attorney Demetri Tsilimigras. With that margin, one might think that he would have won pretty much every precinct. And he pretty much did. But, … Continue reading
When I went to bed at 4:30 AM, there were precinct results posted for 144 out of 212 precincts. Now, there are precinct results for 144 out of 212 precincts. I called the Clerk’s Office. The first time, calling “registration,” … Continue reading
At the multi-candidate fundraiser held at the Crystal Lake Rib House Monday night, moderator Joe Tirio, who is running for McHenry County Recorder of Deeds, introduced GOP State Rep. candidate Steve Reick after U.S. Senate candidate James Marter finished speaking. … Continue reading
My precinct is number 7 in Algonquin Township. Going through some stuff, I found the election results from last November’s election. Before I file them I thought I post them. Jim Obeweis won 54% of the vote in Algonquin 7, … Continue reading
A Friend of McHenry County Blog prepared this chart showing the impact of early and absentee voting versus election day in-person voting. If you take the time to study it, please give your interpretation of the implications. = = = … Continue reading
All of the precincts in-person votes have now been posted. This article shows the results before 20,000 early and absentee votes are added. … Continue reading
Retiring McHenry County Clerk Kathie Schultz was correct when she said that there wouldn’t be much change after the final election night results were posted. With only about 50 mainly absentee and a couple of provisional votes outstanding, Prim led … Continue reading
Below you see the in-precinct voting results, minus one person who voted electronically, for the two precincts that vote at Crystal Lake’s Main Beach House. In Algonquin 7, my precinct, incumbents Carol Larson and Barbara Walter had the best ballot … Continue reading
As McHenry County Blog reported Friday, the likelihood that the vote totals posted on McVote for the GOP primary elections in Nunda, Algonquin and Grafton Townships show the final winners. The closest race is for Nunda Township Road Commissioner. It … Continue reading
There must be a dam at the Illinois-Wisconsin border. The water from Wisconsin’s boiling tea kettle didn’t spill over the state border last Saturday when the McHenry County Republican Party decided no candidate against Jack Franks was better than Tea … Continue reading