Cook County State's Attorney candidate Clayton Harris, III (L) wants to build on the tenure of his backer, Kim Foxx (R). | Clayton Harris for State's Attorney/Wikipedia
Cook County State's Attorney candidate Clayton Harris, III (L) wants to build on the tenure of his backer, Kim Foxx (R). | Clayton Harris for State's Attorney/Wikipedia
In Cook County's eleven north suburban townships, State's Attorney Kim Foxx received 24,581 fewer votes in the 2020 Democrat primary, when compared to 2016.
That's according to an analysis of Cook County election returns by North Cook News.
Of 177,939 ballots cast in 2016, her first run for State's Attorney, Foxx won 74,945 votes in north suburban Cook County, 42 percent of the vote in a three-way primary against then-incumbent Anita Alvarez of River Forest and Chicago attorney Donna More.
She won a majority in one of the eleven in 2016-- Evanston, garnering 64 percent of the vote.
In 2020, 163,703 ballots were cast in Cook County's north suburban townships, and Foxx won just 50,364, or 31 percent of the vote in a four way primary against More, Bill Conway and Bob Fioretti.
All eleven north suburban townships cast fewer ballots for Foxx in 2020 than in 2016.
Her vote totals fell most in the townships of New Trier (-20 percent), Barrington (-14 percent), Northfield (-13 percent), Palatine (-13 percent) and Wheeling (-13 percent).
Foxx received just 23 percent of the vote in the townships of Barrington and Wheeling, and 24 percent in Elk Grove and Maine.
Foxx still won a majority in Evanston, but with 56 percent, earning 3,658 fewer votes than four years earlier.
4,311 vote margin in 2020
Foxx won 43 percent of the suburban Cook County vote in the 2020 Democrat primary. Her opponents combined for 57 percent of the vote.
She won 52 percent of South Cook County townships and 40 percent of West Cook townships.
Foxx won the 2020 City of Chicago Democrat primary with 284,955 votes (55 percent) to Conway's 142,175 (28 percent), More's 62,333 (12 percent) and Fioretti's 25,142 (five percent).
"Not Foxx" garnered 229,650 votes in the 2020 City of Chicago Democrat primary.
All told, Foxx won the 2020 Democrat primary with 447,974 votes to 443,663 votes for her three opponents, a difference of 4,311.
This was a contrast from 2016, when Foxx routed incumbent Anita Alvarez in the Democrat primary, winning 645,738 votes to Alvarez' 317,594 and 144,063 for More.
Foxx won 58 percent of 1,107,395 votes cast in 2016.
She won the City of Chicago with 415,627 votes (62 percent) to Alvarez' 171,882 (26 percent) and More's 79,073 (11 percent).
Foxx also won suburban Cook County in 2016, receiving 230,111 votes (52 percent) to Alvarez' 145,712 (33 percent and 64,990 (15 percent) for More.
Foxx is backing Clayton Harris in the March 19, 2024 Democrat primary against retired Illinois Appellate Court Judge Eileen O'Neill Burke.
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