About 5.5 million votes were cast in the 2008 Presidential election.
Illinois' 20 electoral votes are cast based on the popular vote in the whole state.
Illinois was allowed to cast 21 electoral votes in 2008.
John McCain won 0 electoral votes in Illinois, losing Illinois 21 electoral votes to Obama whom received 3,419,673 votes to McCain's 2,031,527 votes.
Donald Trump received 2,146,015 votes to Hillary Clinton's 3,090,729 votes, losing Illinois's 20 electoral votes.
Illinois has 21 electoral votes in 2004. These went to John Kerry (D).
There are 102 counties in the state of Illinois. Hillary Clinton won the state of Illinois in the 2016 presidential election. She received 2,977,000 popular votes and Donald Trump received 2,118,000 popular votes. Clinton won 10 of the 102 counties. She received 1,528,000 votes in the populous Cook County with Trump receiving 440,000 popular votes. Trump won the rural areas of Illinois winning 92 of the 102 counties in Illinois.
John McCain received 2,031,527 votes, losing to Barack Obama's 3,419,673 votes. Obama received all 21 of Illinois' electoral votes.
Electoral votes are distributed based on population.
He received: 50,456,002 popular votes.
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president.
Electoral votes are distributed by state, not by county. In 2012, the state of Illinois had 20 votes.
173. U.S. Senator John McCain (Republican from Arizona) received 45.7% of the popular vote, and was defeated by U.S. Senator Barack Obama (Democrat from Illinois), who received 52.9% of the popular vote and 365 electoral votes.