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Mercer County, IL

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

10 races on your November 3 ballot. Jump to:
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61272 sample ballot preview: statewide, congressional and Mercer County races

U.S. House, Illinois District 15
2 candidates
Federal ▾
Mary E. Miller portrait
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Mary E. Miller
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Miller and her husband run a third generation family cattle and grain farm in Illinois, per the campaign site. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in business management and completed graduate coursework in education, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Protecting conservative, Constitutional principles, including the Right to Life and the Second Amendment
  • Border security and election integrity
  • Supporting American agriculture and farmers
Per the campaign site.
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
Jennifer Todd portrait
JT
Jennifer Todd
DEM
Biography
Jennifer Todd is a registered nurse and nurse paralegal, per press coverage of the race.
Top Priorities
  • Veterans Affairs
  • Education
  • Healthcare
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Illinois fields are from the State Board of Elections' certified candidate filings for the November 3, 2026 ballot; candidates removed on objections do not print.
U.S. Senate
3 candidates
Federal ▾
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Juliana Stratton
DEM
Biography
Stratton is Illinois's Lieutenant Governor and a former state representative who was first elected after defeating a long-serving incumbent, per the campaign site. She says she was motivated to enter public service while caring for her mother through a battle with Alzheimer's and encountering gaps in the healthcare system, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Lower costs and support middle-class families
  • Protect reproductive rights and health care access
  • Invest in violence prevention, jobs, and economic mobility
Key voting record
Served as lieutenant governor during Democratic administrations focused on budgets, equity initiatives, reproductive rights, and state services. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
DT
Don Tracy
REP
Biography
Don Tracy is Illinois's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2026, a lawyer, business executive, and former chair of the Illinois Republican Party. His campaign emphasizes taxes, public safety, economic competitiveness, government accountability, and offering a Republican alternative in an open Senate race.
Top Priorities
  • Lower taxes and improve Illinois economic competitiveness
  • Strengthen public safety and accountability
  • Offer a Republican alternative for the open Senate seat
Campaign siteFull profile
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Whitfield Harrington Jr
Biography
Whitfield Harrington Jr of Schaumburg is on the State Board of Elections' certified candidate list for U.S. Senate on the American Center Party line.
Top Priorities
  • Lowering the cost of living
  • Expanding Direct Primary Care health care
  • Refortifying national infrastructure
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Governor
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
JB Pritzker portrait
JP
JB Pritzker
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Pritzker is Illinois's governor and was previously an entrepreneur and business leader who oversaw operations with 10,000 employees and helped launch a non-profit business incubator that supported the creation of more than 14,500 jobs, per the campaign site. He lost both parents at a young age, an experience he says motivated him toward public service, per the campaign site. He is running with Christian Mitchell as his candidate for lieutenant governor, per the Illinois State Board of Elections' certified 2026 general election candidate list.
Top Priorities
  • Make Illinois more affordable and grow jobs
  • Protect reproductive rights and civil rights
  • Invest in infrastructure, health care, and education
Campaign siteFull profile
DB
Darren Bailey
REP
Biography
Darren Bailey is the Republican nominee for Illinois governor, a former state senator, farmer, and the GOP's 2022 nominee for governor. His campaign emphasizes lower taxes, public safety, parental rights, agriculture, and a rematch against JB Pritzker. He is running with Aaron B. Del Mar as his candidate for lieutenant governor, per the Illinois State Board of Elections' certified 2026 general election candidate list.
Top Priorities
  • Lower taxes and reduce regulation
  • Strengthen public safety
  • Support parental rights, schools, and rural Illinois
Campaign siteFull profile
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Collin Corbett
Biography
Collin Corbett of Palatine is a certified independent candidate for governor with running mate Carolyn Schofield, a former McHenry County Board member; Corbett is a former Republican campaign consultant and founder of Cor Strategies, per Capitol News Illinois and NPR Illinois. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Favoring pragmatic, mainstream solutions over what he calls the politics of no
  • Building a long-term independent political movement working with collaborators across party lines
Per The Illinoize.
Full profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
Kwame Raoul portrait
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Kwame Raoul
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Kwame Raoul is Illinois's incumbent attorney general and the Democratic nominee for re-election. His office has emphasized consumer protection, civil rights, gun safety litigation, reproductive rights, workers' rights, and multistate legal actions.
Top Priorities
  • Protect consumers, workers, and civil rights
  • Pursue public-safety and gun-safety litigation
  • Defend reproductive rights and state legal interests
Campaign siteFull profile
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Bob Fioretti
REP
Biography
Bob Fioretti is the Republican nominee for Illinois attorney general and a former Chicago alderman. His campaign emphasizes public safety, government accountability, litigation priorities, and a Republican alternative to Democratic control of statewide legal offices.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen public safety and prosecution priorities
  • Increase government accountability
  • Offer Republican legal leadership statewide
Campaign siteFull profile
Secretary of State
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
AG
Alexi Giannoulias
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Alexi Giannoulias is Illinois's incumbent secretary of state and the Democratic nominee for re-election. His office manages driver services, libraries, business filings, state records, organ-donor registration, and technology modernization.
Top Priorities
  • Modernize driver and business services
  • Improve libraries and public records access
  • Strengthen customer service and technology systems
Campaign siteFull profile
DH
Diane Harris
REP
Biography
Diane Harris is the Republican nominee for Illinois secretary of state and a Joliet Junior College trustee. Her campaign emphasizes customer service, election-adjacent administrative services, business filings, and a Republican alternative for a large statewide office.
Top Priorities
  • Improve customer service
  • Modernize administrative services
  • Offer Republican oversight of the office
Campaign siteFull profile
Treasurer
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
Mike Frerichs portrait
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Mike Frerichs
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Frerichs is the incumbent Illinois State Treasurer, first sworn in in 2015, and previously served as an Illinois state senator, Champaign County Auditor and Champaign County Board member, per the campaign site. A Yale University graduate, he grew up in Gifford, Illinois, the son of a truck driver and a university secretary, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Manage state investments and cash responsibly
  • Return unclaimed property to residents
  • Support college savings and financial education
Campaign siteFull profile
MS
Max Solomon
REP
Biography
Max Solomon is the Republican nominee listed for Illinois state treasurer. His candidacy gives Republican voters a statewide alternative in the office responsible for state investments, public cash management, and treasury services. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Offer Republican oversight of state treasury work
  • Emphasize fiscal accountability
  • Challenge Democratic control of statewide finance offices
Full profile
Comptroller
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
MC
Margaret Croke
DEM
Biography
Margaret Croke is running for Illinois Comptroller. She has served five years in the Illinois House of Representatives, where she chairs the Financial Institutions committee, per her campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Improve bill-payment transparency
  • Strengthen state financial reporting
  • Use legislative experience in fiscal oversight
Key voting record
Used her legislative role to participate in budget, economic-development, and state-service debates. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
Bryan Drew portrait
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Bryan Drew
REP
Biography
Bryan Drew is the Republican nominee for Illinois comptroller and an attorney. His candidacy offers a Republican alternative for the office that manages state payments, fiscal reporting, and public financial transparency.
Top Priorities
  • Increase fiscal transparency
  • Improve state payment accountability
  • Offer Republican oversight of state finances
Campaign siteFull profile
Illinois Judicial Retention
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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James A. Knecht
INCUMBENT
Biography
Judge Knecht was first elected to the Fourth District Appellate Court in 1986, and was most recently retained in 2016 for a term running through December 6, 2026; before the Appellate Court he was a circuit judge from 1978 and an associate circuit judge from 1975, and began his legal career as a law clerk to an Illinois Supreme Court justice. He holds a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, per the Office of the Illinois Courts' official biography.
Full profile
JB
John B. Barberis Jr.
INCUMBENT
Biography
Judge Barberis was elected to the Fifth District Appellate Court on November 8, 2016, to a 10-year term, filling the vacancy created by Judge Bruce Stewart's retirement; before that he was elected a Madison County circuit judge in 2014, after 18 years in private practice. He holds a J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law and a B.S. from Illinois State University, per the Office of the Illinois Courts' official biography.
Full profile
About this race
Retention vote: each judge appears alone with a yes-or-no question on keeping the seat. 129 more district or county retention judges depend on your address: see /judges/illinois.

Countywide races in Mercer County

ZIP 61272 sits in Mercer County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Mercer County races (6).

Regional Superintendent of Schools (Regional Office of Education #33)
1 candidate
County ▾
KJ
Kathryn Jennings
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Kathryn Jennings was sworn in July 1, 2025 as Regional Superintendent of Schools for Regional Office of Education #33, serving Henderson, Knox, Mercer and Warren counties, per Galesburg business news coverage. She is a resident of Abingdon and a graduate of Avon High School and Culver-Stockton College, with graduate degrees from Western Illinois University, per the same source. No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Kathryn Jennings is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Regional Superintendent of Schools, Regional Office of Education #33 (Henderson, Knox, Mercer and Warren counties), per the Illinois State Board of Elections' certified 2026 general election candidate list. Illinois elects a regional superintendent countywide across the whole region every four years. The name still appears on the ballot; the race is uncontested.
Circuit Court, 14th Judicial Circuit, Vacancy of Hon. Thompson
1 candidate
County ▾
TF
Tionn Fambro Carter
DEM
Biography
No campaign website was found as of September 25, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Tionn Fambro Carter is on the November 3, 2026 ballot to fill a vacancy on the 14th Judicial Circuit Court (the seat vacated by the Hon. Thompson). The 14th Judicial Circuit covers Henry, Mercer, Rock Island and Whiteside counties; every voter there votes on this seat. Illinois circuit judgeships are decided in contested partisan elections, unlike judicial retention questions. Listed from the Illinois State Board of Elections' certified 2026 general election candidate list.
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