Aaron Del Mar

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Aaron Del Mar

Republican Party

Candidate, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois

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Last election

June 28, 2022

Next election

March 17, 2026

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Aaron Del Mar (Republican Party) is running for election for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. He declared candidacy for the Republican primary scheduled on March 17, 2026.^[source]

Elections

2026

See also: Illinois gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2026

General election

The primary will occur on March 17, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.

Democratic primary

Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois

Christian Mitchell (D) and Joseph Mosley (D) are running in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois on March 17, 2026.

		Candidate
		Christian Mitchell
	Submit photo	Joseph Mosley

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Republican primary

Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois

The following candidates are running in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois on March 17, 2026.

		Candidate
		Aaron Del Mar
	Submit photo	Rantch Isquith
	Submit photo	Carrie Mendoza
	Submit photo	Christina Neitzke-Troike
	Submit photo	Robert Renteria
	Submit photo	Geno Young

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2022

See also: Illinois gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022

General election

General election for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois

Incumbent Juliana Stratton defeated Stephanie Trussell, John Phillips, and Michael Kinney in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Juliana Stratton (D)	54.9	2,253,748
		Stephanie Trussell (R)	42.4	1,739,095
		John Phillips (L)	2.7	111,712
	Submit photo	Michael Kinney (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	7

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 4,104,562
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois

Incumbent Juliana Stratton defeated Karla Shaw in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois on June 28, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Juliana Stratton	91.9	810,989
	Submit photo	Karla Shaw	8.1	71,704

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 882,693
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois on June 28, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Stephanie Trussell	57.5	458,102
	Submit photo	Kathleen Murphy	15.7	125,094
		Avery Bourne	15.0	119,592
		Aaron Del Mar	6.5	52,194
		Carolyn Schofield	4.4	34,676
	Submit photo	Latasha Fields	0.9	7,371

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 797,029
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Brett Mahlen (R)

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2026

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2022

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Aaron Del Mar campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2022	Lieutenant Governor of Illinois	Lost primary	$0	$0
Grand total			$0	$0
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

2016 Republican National Convention

Del Mar was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Illinois. Del Mar was one of 54 delegates from Illinois bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention. As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.

Delegate rules

See also: RNC delegate guidelines from Illinois, 2016 and Republican delegates from Illinois, 2016

District-level delegates from Illinois were elected directly by voters at the state primary election on March 15, 2016. At-large delegates were selected at the state convention in May 2016. District-level delegates to the national convention could run as "uncommitted" delegates or they could declare their support for a specific candidate. 2016 Illinois GOP bylaws considered a vote for a delegate to be an "expression of sentiment" and "only advisory to the Delegate or Alternate Delegate so elected, unless otherwise directed by the Rules of the Republican Party." At-large delegates were bound to support the winner of the statewide vote in Illinois' primary election for an undetermined number of ballots.

Illinois primary results

See also: Presidential election in Illinois, 2016

Illinois Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Donald Trump	38.8%	562,464	54
Ted Cruz	30.2%	438,235	9
John Kasich	19.7%	286,118	6
Marco Rubio	8.7%	126,681	0
Ben Carson	0.8%	11,469	0
Jeb Bush	0.8%	11,188	0
Rand Paul	0.3%	4,718	0
Chris Christie	0.2%	3,428	0
Mike Huckabee	0.2%	2,737	0
Carly Fiorina	0.1%	1,540	0
Rick Santorum	0.1%	1,154	0
JoAnn Breivogel	0%	16	0
Totals		1,449,748	69
Source: The New York Times and Illinois State Board of Elections

Delegate allocation

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016 and 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Illinois had 69 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 54 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 18 congressional districts). According to the Republican National Committee, Illinois' district-level delegates were "elected directly on the primary ballot and bound to the candidate for whom they [declared] themselves."

Of the remaining 15 delegates, 12 served at large. Illinois' at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the statewide primary vote received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.

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