1998 United States Senate election in Illinois
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| Turnout | 50.25% | ||||||||||||||||
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County results Fitzgerald: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Braun: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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The 1998 United States Senate election in Illinois was held November 3, 1998. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun decided to run for re-election, despite the number of controversies that she had in her first term. Republican State Senator Peter Fitzgerald won his party's primary with a slim margin of victory. Fitzgerald won with a margin of victory of approximately 3%. He won all but five counties and became the only Republican Senate candidate to defeat a Democratic incumbent in 1998.