The 2002 Cook County Board of Commissioners election was held on November 5, 2002.[1] primary election held on March 19, 2002.[2] 2002 Cook County, Illinois, elections (including the election for president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners ). It saw all seventeen seats of the Cook County Board of Commissioners up for election to four-year terms.
As these were the first elections held following the 2000 United States Census , the seats faced redistricting before this election.
1st district [ edit ] Incumbent first-term Commissioner Earlean Collins , a Democrat, was reelected.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[3] [2] [5] [1]
General election [ edit ] 2nd district [ edit ] Incumbent fourth-term Commissioner Bobbie L. Steele , a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the primary and general election.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[3] [2]
General election [ edit ] 3rd district [ edit ] Incumbent Commissioner Jerry Butler , a Democrat who first assumed the office in 1985, was reelected, running unopposed in both the primary and general election.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[3] [2]
General election [ edit ] 4th district [ edit ] Incumbent Commissioner John Stroger , a Democrat, was reelected.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] General election [ edit ] 5th district [ edit ] Incumbent second-term Commissioner Deborah Sims, a Democrat, was reelected.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] General election [ edit ] Republican primary winner Daniel "Dan" Wooten withdrew and was not replaced on the ballot.
6th district [ edit ] Incumbent first-term Commissioner William Moran, a Democrat, unsuccessfully sought reelection. Joan Patricia Murphy defeated him for the Democratic nomination, and won the general election unopposed.
Incumbent Moran had been a perennial candidate who, in the 1998 general election, had won an upset victory over incumbent then-Republican Barclay "Bud" Fleming.[6] [7]
Barclay "Bud" Fleming, who had been ousted in 1998, also unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for this election.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[2]
General election [ edit ] 7th district [ edit ] Incumbent second-term Commissioner Joseph Mario Moreno , a Democrat, was reelected.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[3] [2] [5] [1]
General election [ edit ] 8th district [ edit ] Incumbent second-term Commissioner Roberto Maldonado , a Democrat, was reelected, running unopposed in both the primary and general election.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[3] [2]
General election [ edit ] 9th district [ edit ] Incumbent second-term Commissioner Peter N. Silvestri , a Republican, was reelected.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] General election [ edit ] 10th district [ edit ] Incumbent first-term Commissioner Mike Quigley , a Democrat, was reelected.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[3] [2]
General election [ edit ] 11th district [ edit ] Incumbent Commissioner John P. Daley , a Democrat in office since 1992, was reelected.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] General election [ edit ] 12th district [ edit ] Incumbent fourth-term[8] Ted Lechowicz , a Democrat, sought reelection, but was defeated in the Democratic primary by Forrest Claypool who went on to win the general election.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[3] [2]
General election [ edit ] 13th district [ edit ] Incumbent second-term Commissioner Calvin Sutker , a Democrat, sought reelection, but was defeated in the Democratic primary by Larry Suffredin , who went on to win the general election.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] In what was regarded to be an upset , Sutker unseated incumbent Suffredin.[9]
Republican [ edit ] No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.[3] [2] [5] [1]
General election [ edit ] 14th district [ edit ] Incumbent first-term Commissioner Gregg Goslin , a Republican, was reelected.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] General election [ edit ] 15th district [ edit ] Incumbent seventh-term[10]
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] General election [ edit ] 16th district [ edit ] Incumbent Commissioner Allan C. Carr , a Republican, sought reelection, but was defeated in the Republican primary by Tony Peraica , who went on to win the general election.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Melrose Park Village President Ronald M. Serpico[11] [12]
Republican [ edit ] General election [ edit ] 17th district [ edit ] Incumbent fourth-term[13] Herb Schumann , a Republican, sought reelection, but was defeated in the Republican primary by Elizabeth Ann Doody Gorman , who went on to win the general election.
Primaries [ edit ] Democratic [ edit ] Republican [ edit ] General election [ edit ] Democratic primary winner Candice Marie Morrison withdrew before the election.[1]
Summarizing statistics [ edit ]
Contest summary
Party
Seats held before
Seats contested
Democratic
12
16
Republican
5
10
Vote summary
Party
Popular vote
Seats won
Democratic
877,738 (74.55%)
12
Republican
299,652 (25.45%)
5
Total
1,177,390
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Fate of incumbents
Party
Total incumbents
Incumbents that sought reelection/retired
Incumbents that won/lost re-nomination in primaries
Incumbents that won/lost general election
Democratic
12
12 sought reelection
9 won re-nomination
9 won
Republican
5
5 sought reelection
3 won re-nomination
3 won
Composition of elected board (returning/newly elected members)
Party
Returning members
Newly elected members
Democratic
9
3
Republican
3
2
References [ edit ]
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