Primary Election Filings for LITH Residents

Are you wondering which districts and candidates will be on the ballot for you for the primary election on March 20, 2012? 

New boundaries for legislative maps were drawn up in June, which means some districts have changed the area in which the candidates running for those seats will represent. 

The proposed maps were challenged in court. On Wednesday, an appeals panel of three federal judges rejected final arguments put forth by state Republicans against the new General Assembly maps, which Gov. Pat Quinn  in June, according to a Chicago Tribune article. 

Filings for several candidates in the McHenry County primary election ended Monday. Under the new legislative maps, County Clerk Katherine Schulz told Patch Lake in the Hills residents should see the following races on its ballot: 

• For congressional districts, Lake in the Hills falls under either the 6th or the 14th congressional district.
 
• For representative districts, Lake in the Hills falls under either the 52 or the 66th district.
 
• For the legislative senate districts, Lake in the Hills falls under either the the 33rd or 66th district.
• For county board seats, Lake in the Hils falls under districts 1, 2, 5 and 6. 

The Candidates

The 33rd senate district will consist of a three-way race between three Republican candidates: Karen McConnaughay, R-St. Charles, Cliff Surges, R-Gilberts and Craig Powers, R-Geneva. 

The 26th senate district candidates include Amanda Howland, D-Lake Zurich, and Dan Duffy, R-Lake Barrington. 

Incumbent Michael Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, will be running unopposed in the 66th representative district. Formerly the state representative for the 64th district, Tryon will be running in the newly-formed 66th district under proposed legislative map changes. 

The 52nd representative district is a three-way race between three Republicans: Kent Gaffney of Lake Barrington, David McSweeney of Barrington Hills and Danielle Rowe of Island Lake.  who died suddenly . 

Michael Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, will run unopposed in the 66th district. Tryon was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in November 2004.

The filing period for the primary election for congressional districts was delayed due to an ongoing lawsuit over the new legislative maps, drawn and approved by Democrats in June. .

County Board Candidates

Below are the candidates representing parts of Lake in the Hills and running for county board in the March 20 primary elections: 

District 2

• Republican James L. Heisler, Crystal Lake
• Republican Carolyn Schofield, Crystal Lake
• Republican Kenneth (Ken) D. Koehler, Crystal Lake
• Republican Thomas W. Wilbeck, Lakewood
• Republican Donna Kurtz, Crystal Lake
• Democrat Jim Roden, Lakewood
• Democrat James P Kennedy, Lake in the Hills

District 5

• Democrat Paul Yensen, Lake in the Hills
• Republican John Jung, Jr., Woodstock 
• Republican Tina R. Hill, Woodstock
• Republican Virginia D. Peschke, Bull Valley
• Republican Michael Rein, Woodstock
• Republican Michael Skala, Huntley
• Green party candidate Frank Wedig, Woodstock 

District 1

• Democrat Nick Chirikos, Algonquin
• Republican Yvonne M. Barnes, Cary 
• Republican Anna May Miller, Cary
• Republican Robert "Bob" Bless, Fox River Grove
• Republican Robert C. (Bob ) Nowak, Cary

According to the Northwest Herald, "all announced Republican candidates for countywide office – Auditor Pam Palmer, Circuit Clerk Katherine Keefe, Coroner Anne Majewski, Recorder Phyllis Walters, and State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi – do not have primary or election challengers."