Election Name: | 1918 United States Senate election in Illinois |
Country: | Illinois |
Flag Year: | 1915 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1913 United States Senate elections in Illinois |
Previous Year: | 1913 |
Next Election: | 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois |
Next Year: | 1924 |
Election Date: | November 5, 1918 |
Image1: | McCORMICK, JOSEPH MEDILL. REP. FROM ILLINOIS, 1917-1919; SENATOR, 1919-1925. OWNER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE LCCN2016870109 (cropped1).jpg |
Nominee1: | Medill McCormick |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 479,967 |
Percentage1: | 50.50% |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 426,943 |
Percentage2: | 44.92% |
Map Size: | 300px |
U.S. senator | |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1918 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 5, 1918.[1]
Incumbent Democrat J. Hamilton Lewis lost reelection to Republican Medill McCormick.
The primaries and general election coincided with those for House and those for state elections.[1] The primaries were held September 11, 1918.[1]
This was the first election for this U.S. Senate seat to be held after the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect, and was therefore the first time that this seat faced a popular election.