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The 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald decided to retire after one term. The Democratic and Republican primary elections were held in March, which included a total of 15 candidates who combined to spend a record total of over $60 million seeking the open seat.
On March 16, 2004, State Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic primary, and businessman Jack Ryan won the Republican primary. Three months later, Ryan announced his withdrawal from the race four days after the Chicago Tribune persuaded a California court to release records from Ryan's custody case, which included allegations that Ryan had pressured his then-wife actress Jeri Ryan to perform sexual acts in public.
Six weeks later, the Illinois Republican State Central Committee chose former Diplomat Alan Keyes to replace Ryan as the Republican candidate. Keyes had previously lost two races for the U.S. Senate in Maryland in 1988 and 1992, both by large margins. The election was the first in U.S. Senate history in which both major-party candidates were Black. According to Obama's 2020 memoir A Promised Land, he had promised his wife Michelle that if he lost the race, he would retire from politics.[citation needed]
Obama won the election with 70% of the vote and a margin of 43% over Keyes, the largest margin of victory for a U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois history and significantly larger than Democrat John Kerry's 10.3% margin in the concurrent presidential election. Obama carried 92 of the state's 102 counties, including several where Democrats had traditionally not done well. The inequality in the candidates spending for the fall elections – $14,244,768 by Obama and $2,545,325 by Keyes – is also among the largest in history in both absolute and relative terms.[1] This was the first open-seat election for this seat since 1980. Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator on January 3, 2005, and served until he resigned on November 16, 2008, 12 days after he was elected President. [2]
^Jacobson, Gary C. (March 30, 2006). The First Congressional Elections After BCRA. Rowman and Littlefield. p. 195. ISBN 978-0742538702. Retrieved October 27, 2012. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^"Obama Resigns Senate Seat, Honors Illinois - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. November 16, 2008. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
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