List of Democratic nominees for Governor of Illinois

Democratic-Republican">Democratic-Republican Party">Democratic-Republican/Adams">John Quincy Adams">Adams/Jacksonian">Jacksonian Democracy">Jacksonian Era

• 1818 Shadrach Bond
• 1822 Edward Coles
• 1826 Ninian Edwards
• 1830 John Reynolds
• 1834 Joseph Duncan

  Modern Democratic">United States Democratic Party">Democratic Party era

• 1838 Thomas Carlin
• 1842 Thomas Ford
• 1846 Augustus C. French
• 1848 Augustus C. French ^,
• 1852 Joel Aldrich Matteson
• 1856 William Alexander Richardson
• 1860 James C. Allen
• 1864 James C. Robinson
• 1868 John R. Eden
• 1872
• 1876 Lewis Steward
• 1880 Lyman Trumbull
• 1884 Carter H. Harrison, Sr.
• 1888 John M. Palmer
• 1892 John Peter Altgeld
• 1896 John Peter Altgeld
• 1900 Samuel Alschuler
• 1904 Lawrence B. Stringer
• 1908 Adlai E. Stevenson I
• 1912 Edward F. Dunne
• 1916 Edward F. Dunne
• 1920 James Hamilton Lewis
• 1924 Norman L. Jones
• 1928 Floyd E. Thompson
• 1932 Henry Horner
• 1936 Henry Horner
• 1940 Harry Hershey
• 1944 Thomas J. Courtney
• 1948 Adlai E. Stevenson II
• 1952 Sherwood Dixon
• 1956 Richard Austin
• 1960 Otto Kerner, Jr.
• 1964 Otto Kerner, Jr.
• 1968 Samuel H. Shapiro
• 1972 Daniel Walker
• 1976 Michael Howlett
• 1978 Michael Bakalis
• 1982 Adlai E. Stevenson III
• 1986 ^,
• 1990 Neil Hartigan
• 1994 Dawn Clark Netsch
• 1998 Glenn Poshard
• 2002 Rod Blagojevich
• 2006 Rod Blagojevich
• 2010 Pat Quinn
• 2014 Pat Quinn
• 2018 J. B. Pritzker