Democratic nominees for governor of Illinois: Democratic-Republican/Adams/Jacksonian era 1818 Shadrach Bond 1822 Edward Coles 1826 Ninian Edwards 1830 John Reynolds 1834 Joseph Duncan Modern 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 B. 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 Those in italics lost the general election. Notes Lists of Illinois politicians