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Who is on the ballot in 62232?

St. Clair County, IL

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

14 races on your November 3 ballot. Jump to:
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County and municipal contests depend on your exact address — use the address lookup below for the full slate. Every race links to official sources on the Illinois voter hub.
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62232 sample ballot preview: statewide, congressional and St. Clair County races

U.S. House

ZIP 62232 spans District 12 and District 13, so your U.S. House race depends on your street address. Enter a full address to pin down your district, or browse both fields on the Illinois hub.

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
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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 ▾
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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
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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 ▾
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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 ▾
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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
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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 ▾
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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
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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 ▾
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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
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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
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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 St. Clair County

ZIP 62232 sits in St. Clair County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All St. Clair County races (32).

St. Clair County Clerk
2 candidates
County ▾
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Gary Hursey
REP
Biography
Gary Hursey is the Republican candidate for St. Clair County Clerk. He describes himself as a lifelong St. Clair County resident and says his campaign is focused on transparency and efficiency in the Clerk's office, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Increase transparency and efficiency in the County Clerk's office
  • Modernize election administration while balancing accessibility and security, including support for voter identification requirements
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Laura Kaemmerer
DEM
Biography
Laura Kaemmerer appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for St. Clair County Clerk, per the official candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 22, 2026.
Full profile
About this race
Gary Hursey is the Republican nominee and Laura Kaemmerer is the Democratic nominee, per the county clerk's own candidate filing tool; both filings show status Active. This contest is on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
St. Clair County Treasurer
2 candidates
County ▾
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Myki Rhodes
REP
Biography
Myki Rhodes appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for St. Clair County Treasurer, per the official candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 22, 2026.
Full profile
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Andrew Lopinot
DEM
Biography
Andrew Lopinot has served as St. Clair County Treasurer since 2018, per the county Treasurer's office. He holds a Master's in Public Administration from SIUE and a Master's in Higher Education Administration from Kent State University, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Expand online real estate and mobile home tax payment options
  • Oversee investment of taxpayer money with a focus on safety, liquidity and rate of return
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Myki Rhodes is the Republican nominee and Andrew Lopinot is the Democratic nominee, per the county clerk's own candidate filing tool; both filings show status Active. This contest is on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
St. Clair County Sheriff
1 candidate
County ▾
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Richard "Rick" Watson
DEM
Biography
Richard Watson is the sitting St. Clair County Sheriff, per the Sheriff's Department website. No campaign website was found as of September 22, 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
Republican filer Steve Patterson's candidacy shows status Objection Sustained on the county clerk's filing tool, meaning he does not appear on the ballot. Richard "Rick" Watson, the Democratic filer (status Active), is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
St. Clair County Assessor
1 candidate
County ▾
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Jennifer Gomric Minton
DEM
Biography
Jennifer Gomric Minton is the sitting St. Clair County Assessor, per the Assessor's Office website. No campaign website was found as of September 22, 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
No Republican candidate filed. Jennifer Gomric Minton is the Democratic nominee (status Active) and is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the county clerk's own candidate filing tool.
St. Clair County Board of Review
2 candidates
County ▾
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Brian Triska
REP
Biography
Brian Triska owns a family construction business and is a 2001 graduate of Belleville West High School and a 2005 graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, per the Millstadt Public Library. He has volunteered with the band parents association at Millstadt Community Consolidated School for six years. No campaign website was found as of September 22, 2026.
Full profile
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Irma Golliday
DEM
Biography
Irma Golliday is a sitting member of the St. Clair County Board of Review, per the Board of Review's official website. No campaign website was found as of September 22, 2026.
Full profile
About this race
Brian Triska is the Republican nominee and Irma Golliday is the Democratic nominee, per the county clerk's own candidate filing tool; both filings show status Active. This contest is on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Regional Superintendent of Schools, Educational Service Region 50 (St. Clair County)
1 candidate
County ▾
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Lori Costello
DEM
Biography
Lori Costello is the Regional Superintendent of the St. Clair County Regional Office of Education, appointed to the post starting January 1, 2024, after ten years as principal of Waterloo High School and six years as assistant principal there, per AOL News. She holds a bachelor's degree from Illinois State University, a master's degree in educational leadership and a business education teaching certification from McKendree University, and superintendent and chief school business official endorsements from the University of Illinois. No campaign website was found as of September 22, 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
No Republican candidate filed. Lori Costello is the Democratic nominee (status Active) and is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the county clerk's own candidate filing tool.
Judge of the Appellate Court, 5th Judicial District (Welch vacancy)
1 candidate
County ▾
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Amy Sholar
REP
Biography
Amy Sholar has served as a Fifth District Appellate Court justice since her 2024 appointment by the Illinois Supreme Court, per the Illinois Courts office. She was appointed Circuit Judge in Madison County in 2021 and elected to that post in 2022, and earlier worked for the Madison County State's Attorney's office, for the City of Alton, and in private practice, per the Illinois State Bar Association's judicial evaluation. No campaign website was found as of September 22, 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
No Democratic candidate filed. Amy Sholar is the Republican nominee (status Active) for the appellate vacancy left by Justice Welch, per the county clerk's own candidate filing tool. The 5th Appellate Judicial District covers St. Clair County and a multi-county region of southern Illinois. This contest is on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
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