Quigley, a Cook County commissioner, will become the newest member of Congress.
In a special congressional election that had none of the drama or controversy that we saw in NY 20 — the still-undecided battle between Scott Murphy (D) and Jim Tedisco (R) — voters in Illinois' 5th CD made an unambiguous decision yesterday. They chose Democrat Mike Quigley, a Cook County commissioner, to replace now-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in Congress.
With 99 percent of the vote counted, Quigley received 69 percent of the vote (30,122), to 24 percent for Republican Rosanna Pulido (10,513) and 7 percent for Green Party candidate Matt Reichel (2,868).
The real drama in this overwhelmingly Democratic district was in the March 3 multicandidate Dem primary, which Quigley won with 22 percent of the vote. He campaigned as an anti-corruption reformer and won the endorsements of Chicago's two major newspapers.
Pulido won the GOP nomination without the support of Republican Party officials, locally or nationally. She is the director of the Illinois Minuteman Project, an anti-illegal-immigration group.
Quigley is expected to be sworn in on April 21.
THIS JUST IN: Quigley will be our special guest today during the Political Junkie segment on NPR's Talk of the Nation.
Two districts remain without an incumbent: the aforementioned NY 20, and CA 32, which Hilda Solis (D) vacated when she became secretary of labor. Another district, CA 10, will be vacant once Ellen Tauscher (D) is confirmed as undersecretary of state.
Da Mayor. One other election result of note occurred in the Chicago suburb of Palatine. Jim Schwantz, who played for the Chicago Bears in the 1990s, ousted five-term Mayor Rita Mullins.
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