2004 Cook County, Illinois, elections
# 2004 Cook County, Illinois, elections

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The Cook County, Illinois, general election was held on November 2, 2004.

Primaries were held March 16, 2004.

Elections were held for Clerk of the Circuit Court, Recorder of Deeds, State's Attorney, Board of Review district 3, three seats on the Water Reclamation District Board, and judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County.

## Election information

2004 was a presidential election year in the United States. The primaries and general elections for Cook County races coincided with those for federal races (President, House, and Senate) and those for state elections.

### Voter turnout

**Primary election**

Voter turnout in Cook County during the primaries was 35.02%. The city of Chicago saw 38.58% turnout and suburban Cook County saw 31.34% turnout.

Vote totals of primaries :

| Primary | Chicago vote totals | Suburban Cook County vote totals | Total Cook County vote totals |
| - | - | - | - |
| Democratic | 484,622 | 279,538 | 764,160 |
| Republican | 27,893 | 117,554 | 145,447 |
| Green | 72 | 4 | 76 |
| Libertarian | 71 | 3 | 74 |
| Nonpartisan | 2,310 | 9,016 | 11,326 |
| Total | 514,971 | 406,115 | 921,086 |

**General election**

The general election saw 74.75% turnout, with 2,088,727 ballots cast. Chicago saw 75.13% turnout and suburban Cook County saw 74.36% turnout.

## Clerk of the Circuit Court

In the 2004 Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County election, incumbent first-term Clerk Dorothy A. Brown, a Democrat, was reelected.

### Primaries

**Democratic**

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Democratic primary :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Democratic | Dorothy A. Brown (incumbent) | 479,438 | 74.52 |
| | Democratic | Jerry Orbach | 163,896 | 25.48 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 643,334 | 100 |

**Republican**

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Republican primary :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Republican | Judith A. Kleiderman | 116,238 | 100 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 116,238 | 100 |

### General election

**Newspapers**

* Chicago Tribune

**Results**

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County election :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Democratic | Dorothy A. Brown (incumbent) | 1,365,285 | 74.06 |
| | Republican | Judith A. Kleiderman | 478,222 | 25.94 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,843,507 | 100 |

## Recorder of Deeds

In the 2004 Cook County Recorder of Deeds election, incumbent Recorder of Deeds Eugene Moore, a Democrat, was reelected. Moore had first been appointed in 1999 (after Jesse White resigned to become Illinois Secretary of State), and had been elected to a full-term in 2000.

### Primaries

**Democratic**

Cook County Recorder of Deeds Democratic primary :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Democratic | Eugene "Gene" Moore (incumbent) | 325,906 | 100 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 325,906 | 100 |

**Republican**

Cook County Recorder of Deeds Republican primary :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Republican | John H. Cox | 117,731 | 100 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 117,731 | 100 |

### General election

Republican nominee Cox had declared that his intent in seeking the office was to push for its elimination, as he argued that the office was an unnecessary duplication of services and had become a "model of waste and corruption".

**Newspapers**

* Chicago Tribune

**Results**

Cook County Recorder of Deeds election :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Democratic | Eugene "Gene" Moore (incumbent) | 1,283,762 | 70.74 |
| | Republican | John H. Cox | 530,945 | 29.26 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,814,707 | 100 |

## State's Attorney

In the 2004 Cook County State's Attorney election, incumbent second-term State's Attorney Richard A. Devine, a Democrat, was reelected.

### Primaries

**Democratic**

In the Democratic primary, incumbent Dick Devine defeated challenger Tommy H. Brewer (who had previously, in 1994, run unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination Cook County Sheriff).

Cook County State’s Attorney Democratic primary :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Democratic | Richard A. Devine (incumbent) | 505,791 | 79.06 |
| | Democratic | Tommy H. Brewer | 133,978 | 20.94 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 639,769 | 100 |

**Republican**

Cook County State’s Attorney Republican primary :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Republican | Philip Spiwak | 116,365 | 100 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 116,365 | 100 |

### General election

**Newspapers**

* Chicago Tribune

**Results**

Cook County State’s Attorney election :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Democratic | Richard A. Devine (incumbent) | 1,483,280 | 79.43 |
| | Republican | Philip Spiwak | 384,082 | 20.57 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,867,362 | 100 |

## Cook County Board of Review

In the 2004 Cook County Board of Review election, one seat, Democratic-held, was up for election. The incumbent won reelection.

The Cook County Board of Review has its three seats rotate the length of terms. In a staggered fashion (in which no two seats have coinciding two-year terms), the seats rotate between two consecutive four-year terms and a two-year term.

### 3rd district

Incumbent second-term member Robert Shaw, a Democrat last reelected in 2002, lost reelection, being unseated by in the Democratic primary by Larry R. Rogers, Jr., who went on to win the general election unopposed. Rogers' margin-of-victory over Shaw in the Democratic primary was narrow, at 1,087 votes (equal to 0.37 of votes cast). This election was to a four-year term.

**Primaries**

**Democratic**

Cook County Board of Review 3rd district Democratic primary :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Democratic | Larry R. Rogers, Jr. | 148,987 | 50.18 |
| | Democratic | Robert Shaw (incumbent) | 147,900 | 49.81 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 296,887 | 100 |

**Primaries**

**Republican**

No candidates, ballot-certified or formal write-in, ran in the Republican primary.

**General election**

Cook County Board of Review 3rd district election :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Democratic | Larry R. Rogers, Jr. | 518,543 | 100 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 518,543 | 100 |

## Water Reclamation District Board

In the 2004 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago election, three of the nine seats on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago board were up for election in an at-large election.

## Judicial elections

Pasrtisan elections were held for judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County due to vacancies. Retention elections were also held for the Circuit Court.

Partisan elections were also held for subcircuit courts judgeships due to vacancies. Retention elections were held for other judgeships.

## Other elections

Coinciding with the primaries, elections were held to elect both the Democratic and Republican committeemen for the wards of Chicago.

