1968 Illinois gubernatorial election
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| Turnout | 79.39% 4.76 pp | ||||||||||||||||
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County results Ogilvie: 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% Shapiro: 40–50% 50–60% | |||||||||||||||||
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The 1968 Illinois gubernatorial election was held in Illinois on November 5, 1968. Democratic nominee, incumbent governor Samuel H. Shapiro (who had assumed the governorship in May 1968, after Otto Kerner Jr. resigned in order to accept a judicial appointment), lost reelection to Republican nominee Richard B. Ogilvie, who was the president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and former sheriff of Cook County.