2056 United States presidential election in Illinois



The 2056 United States presidential election in Illinois was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2056, as part of the 2056 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of Thomas Grimke and Purya Hadjian won the state with a 48.21% plurality of the vote and a 10.73% margin of victory. Grimke won by a wider margin than Illinois native Laura Les did four years earlier, but won significantly less of the vote; in fact, had O'Shea won all votes from Constitution Party candidate Arnold Leding, he would have won the state by roughly half a percentage point.

Leding took over 11% of the vote in Illinois, making it his strongest state won by Grimke, the only blue state where he received more than 10% of the vote, as well as the only blue state in which he took a higher percentage of the vote than the national average. This was due to the influence of southern Illinois, which borders western Kentucky, the region Leding was from and his strongest region in the country. Leding won seven counties in southern Illinois, including one (Pope County) with a majority (53%) of the vote.

Just like four years earlier, Illinois was the sole state in the Midwest to vote Democratic, and was one of just four landlocked (non-coastal) states to vote Democratic as well.