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Elections were held in Illinois on Tuesday, November 3, 1936.[1]
Primaries were held April 14, 1936.[1]
The elections overall saw a strong performance by the Democratic Party.
Democrats retained their control of both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly and all statewide executive offices, winning all the statewide executive offices by broad margins. Democrats swept the election for University of Illinois trustees. Democrats also carried the state in the presidential election. Democratic United States senator J. Hamilton Lewis was reelected. Democrats retained all 21 U.S. congressional seats they held in the state, while Republicans retained all 6 seats they held.