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+Tammy Duckworth (D) i
 		2,329,136
 		56.82%
Kathy Salvi (R)
 		1,701,055
 		41.50%
Bill Redpath (L)
 		68,671
 		1.68%
others (2)
 		34
 		<.0.01%

4,098,896
Registration: 8,115,751 (includes same day registration). 
Plurality: 628,081 votes (15.32 percentage points)
IL State Board of Elections



Notes:  Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D), won re-election (>), defeating attorney Kathy Salvi (R) and financial consulting executive and former LNC chairman Bill Redpath (L). 

Salvi, a personal injury attorney, had ran for Congress in 2006, finishing second in the CD-8 Republican primary.  She is a resident of Mundelein in Lake County, and is married to former state Rep. Al Salvi, who also has run for statewide office.

Redpath, the Libertarian nominee, served two terms as chairman of the Libertarian National Committee (2006-2010), has run for public office seven times previously, and works as a financial consulting executive in Chicago.  He invested $45,000 to gather 7,181 signatures to qualify for the ballot.  (For a ballot-qualified party 3,250 signatures were required by Mar. 14, 2022).  In an Oct. 2022 interview, he observed that with Duckworth almost certain to win "people don't seem to care."

Duckworth and Salvi participated in an virtual forum hosted by the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors on Oct. 3 (>) and a forum (a "conversation"..."not a formal debate" organized by public broadcaster WTTW-TV in Chicago on Oct. 27 (>).
 
This race was not financially competitive.  The Duckworth campaign reported $20.9 million raised, $19.3 million spent and $1.8 million in cash on hand compared to $1.3 million raised, $1.1 million spent and $129,371 cash on hand for the Salvi campaign (>).
 
June 28 Primaries
In the June 28 primaries, Duckworth was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.  Seven unknowns vied for the Republican nomination.  All seven participated in a virtual joint interview hosted by the Daily Herald on Apr. 27, 2022 (>).  Salvi won the Senate primary with 30.23% of the vote followed by Peggy Hubbard (24.79%), Matt Dubiel (12.67%), Casey Chlebek (10.66%), Bobby Piton (9.16%), Anthony W. Williams (7.40%) and Jimmy Lee Tillman II (5.09%). 


Campaign Managers:
Tammy Duckworth:  Cameron Joost
(June 2022)  State director for Sen. Duckworth from Jan. 2017.  Illinois state director on Biden for President, Sept.-Nov. 2020.  Political director on Tammy for Illinois, June-Nov. 2016.  Staff assistant to U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, Nov. 2011-June 2016.  Downstate political director on Dick Durbin for U.S. Senate, May-Nov. 2014.  Legislative assistant for the Illinois State Senate Democratic Caucus, Jan. 2009-Nov. 20111.  Studied at University of Illinois Springfield.

Kathy Salvi: Stephanie Hitt

See also:
Lynn Sweet.  "Republicans didn't bother to recruit a candidate to run against Sen. Tammy Duckworth."  Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 16, 2022.





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