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Michael Joseph Howlett Sr. (August 30, 1914 – May 4, 1992) was an American politician who served as the 24th Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts and 33rd Illinois Secretary of State. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Illinois in the 1976 Illinois gubernatorial election.
Bond measures needed an affirmative vote equal to majority of the votes cast for whichever chamber of the Illinois General Assembly had the highest cumulative vote count. [4] Since, in 1960, the highest legislative vote was 4,525,191, the vote count needed to be reached was at least 2,262,596 affirmative votes. [ 4 ]
After his time as Secretary of State, Blackwell returned to the Illinois House of Representatives for the 4th General Assembly which commenced November 15, 1824. [2] On January 2, 1826, he was elected Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives to replace Thomas Mather who resigned to take a job to locate a military road. [1]
All 26 Illinois seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 1948. Illinois had redistricted before this election, eliminating its at-large district . State elections
Voters approved the Size of State House of Representatives Amendment (also known as "Amendment 1", the "Legislative Article", and the "Cutback Amendment"), which was an initiated constitutional amendment that amended Article IV, Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Constitution of Illinois to reduce the size of the Illinois House of Representatives from ...
Illinois had lost two congressional districts (the 23rd and 24th) in reapportionment following the 1980 United States Census. All 22 of Illinois' remaining seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 1982
The 2006 Illinois elections were held on November 7, 2006. On that date, registered voters in the State of Illinois elected officeholders for U.S. Congress, to six statewide offices (Governor/Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of States, Treasurer and Comptroller), as well as to the Illinois Senate and Illinois House.
Illinois voted for the Republican ticket of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. For the second consecutive election, Illinois' vote for the Republican Eisenhower-Nixon ticket came despite the fact that former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II was the Democratic presidential nominee.