List of Democratic nominees for Governor of Illinois
# List of Democratic nominees for Governor of Illinois

Democratic nominees for governor of Illinois:

## Democratic-Republican/Adams/Jacksonian era

* 1818 Shadrach Bond
* 1822 Edward Coles
* 1826 Ninian Edwards
* 1830 John Reynolds
* 1834 Joseph Duncan

## Modern Democratic Party era

* 1838 Thomas Carlin
* 1842 Thomas Ford
* 1846 Augustus C. French
* 1848 Augustus C. $French^,$
* 1852 Joel Aldrich Matteson
* 1856 William Alexander Richardson
* 1860 James C. Allen
* 1864 James C. Robinson
* 1868 John R. Eden
* 1872
* 1876 Lewis Steward
* 1880 Lyman Trumbull
* 1884 Carter H. Harrison, Sr.
* 1888 John M. Palmer
* 1892 John Peter Altgeld
* 1896 John Peter Altgeld
* 1900 Samuel Alschuler
* 1904 Lawrence B. Stringer
* 1908 Adlai E. Stevenson I
* 1912 Edward F. Dunne
* 1916 Edward F. Dunne
* 1920 James Hamilton Lewis
* 1924 Norman L. Jones
* 1928 Floyd E. Thompson
* 1932 Henry Horner
* 1936 Henry Horner
* 1940 Harry Hershey
* 1944 Thomas J. Courtney
* 1948 Adlai E. Stevenson II
* 1952 Sherwood Dixon
* 1956 Richard B. Austin
* 1960 Otto Kerner, Jr.
* 1964 Otto Kerner, Jr.
* 1968 Samuel H. Shapiro
* 1972 Daniel Walker
* 1976 Michael Howlett
* 1978 Michael Bakalis
* 1982 Adlai E. Stevenson III
* $1986^,$
* 1990 Neil Hartigan
* 1994 Dawn Clark Netsch
* 1998 Glenn Poshard
* 2002 Rod Blagojevich
* 2006 Rod Blagojevich
* 2010 Pat Quinn
* 2014 Pat Quinn
* 2018 J. B. Pritzker

Those in italics lost the general election.

