Connor VlaKancic
Connor VlaKancic (independent) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Illinois. He lost as a write-in in the general election on November 8, 2022.
VlaKancic completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: United States Senate election in Illinois, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Illinois
Incumbent Tammy Duckworth defeated Kathy Salvi, Bill Redpath, Lowell Seida, and Connor VlaKancic in the general election for U.S. Senate Illinois on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tammy Duckworth (D) | 56.8 | 2,329,136 |
 | Kathy Salvi (R) | 41.5 | 1,701,055 | |
 | Bill Redpath (L)  | 1.7 | 68,671 | |
 | Lowell Seida (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 23 | |
 | Connor VlaKancic (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 11 | |
| Total votes: 4,098,896 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
Incumbent Tammy Duckworth advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tammy Duckworth | 100.0 | 856,720 |
| Total votes: 856,720 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kathy Salvi | 30.2 | 216,007 |
 | Peggy Hubbard | 24.8 | 177,180 | |
 | Matthew Dubiel | 12.7 | 90,538 | |
 | Casey Chlebek | 10.7 | 76,213 | |
 | Bobby Piton | 9.2 | 65,461 | |
 | Anthony Williams | 7.4 | 52,890 | |
 | Jimmy Lee Tillman II | 5.1 | 36,342 | |
| Total votes: 714,631 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Maryann Mahlen (R)
- Eric Wallace (R)
- Allison Salinas (R)
- Rob Cruz (R)
- Lanette Hudson (R)
- Timothy Arview (R)
2020
See also: United States Senate election in Illinois, 2020
United States Senate election in Illinois, 2020 (March 17 Republican primary)
United States Senate election in Illinois, 2020 (March 17 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Illinois
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Illinois on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dick Durbin (D) | 54.9 | 3,278,930 |
 | Mark Curran (R) | 38.9 | 2,319,870 | |
 | Willie Wilson (Willie Wilson Party) | 4.0 | 237,699 | |
 | Danny Malouf (L) | 1.3 | 75,673 | |
 | David Black (G) | 1.0 | 56,711 | |
| Kevin Keely (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 10 | ||
| Lowell Seida (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 6 | |
| Albert Schaal (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 2 | ||
| Total votes: 5,968,901 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Patrick Feges (Independent)
- Chad Koppie (Constitution Party)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
Incumbent Dick Durbin advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dick Durbin | 100.0 | 1,446,118 |
| Total votes: 1,446,118 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Illinois on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Curran | 41.6 | 205,747 |
| Peggy Hubbard | 22.9 | 113,189 | |
 | Robert Marshall | 15.3 | 75,561 | |
 | Tom Tarter | 14.7 | 73,009 | |
| Casey Chlebek | 5.6 | 27,655 | |
| Richard Mayers (Write-in) | 0.0 | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 495,168 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Burak Agun (R)
- Dean Seppelfrick (R)
- Connor VlaKancic (R)
- Preston Nelson (R)
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 11
Incumbent Bill Foster defeated Nick Stella in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 11 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bill Foster (D) | 63.8 | 145,407 |
 | Nick Stella (R) | 36.2 | 82,358 | |
| Total votes: 227,765 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 11
Incumbent Bill Foster advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 11 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bill Foster | 100.0 | 49,762 |
| Total votes: 49,762 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 11
Nick Stella defeated Connor VlaKancic in the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 11 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nick Stella | 79.3 | 23,992 |
| Connor VlaKancic | 20.7 | 6,253 | |
| Total votes: 30,245 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Connor VlaKancic completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by VlaKancic's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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of California Governor and U.S. President Ronald Reagan and raised in a pragmatic traditionalist farming family environment where conscientious behavior and productive work was encouraged and respected.
Graduated from a private college in Chicago, his original career, in Silicon Valley, CA was in semiconductor design and production, creating multiple breakthrough fabrication processes. He achieved three U.S. electronics patents in his own name, starting entrepreneurial corporations. In 1994 was first time candidate for U.S. Representative in the 15th CD. He is the author of the original Contract with America that he described to U.S. Representative/GA Newt Gingrich which was his vision of a Congressional cabal of freshmen Congressmen that the GOP utilized to win a huge Congressional majority in the November 1994 General Election.- Revive Abraham Lincoln 1864 National Union Party to inspire and support rational pragmatic candidates to U.S. Federal elective office! I seek to resurrect the Abraham Lincoln 1864 “National U ion” political party to support alternate pragmatic republicanism breakaway candidates, evoking President Lincoln's name and history to mount an empowering alternative to current demonic political machinery. Specific “VoterMag.net” ballot system legislation “THE FAIL-SAFE BALLOT” that empowers them to define their opinion choices providing voters with a real reason to WANT TO VOTE, not simply access to how to vote.
- Achieve U.S. Federal legislation that allows business or civic organizations and public and private fraternal organizations to allow and encourage political campaign activity WITHOUT any threat or restriction of their 501C3 or 501C4 non-profit status.
- Achieve U.S. Federal legislation that promotes AND SPONSORS elementary school civic education in U.S. Government structure. Inform and encourage youth and student participation in electioneering activity. Provide 14 year to 18 year youth a new form of official sanctioned political activity opportunities.
refuse to vote to demonstrate their disgust with derisive election rhetoric from corrupt political party
machines will create a voter community of conversation grounded in intellectual humility that respects the
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2020
Connor VlaKancic did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Constant G. "Connor" VlaKancic participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on February 28, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Constant G. "Connor" VlaKancic's responses follow below.[1]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Congressional Malfeasance Oversight! Rep. Trey Gowdy has resigned as chairman of the House Oversight Committee. I will strongly seek 116th Congress nomination for this position. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/31/rep-trey-gowdy-r-s-c-announces-will-not-seek-re-election-in-november.html 2) Greater US Congressional legislative support of President Trump's efforts to reduce US Departments creeping growth of regulations. |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Voter Empowerment - Advance Ranked-choice voting in Illinois state and US Federal elections for all US Congress legislators. https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[3]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Constant G. "Connor" VlaKancic answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | President Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of our United States! Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld, a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.[3] | ” |
| “ | AMERICA'S WAY BACK - Reclaiming Freedom, Tradition, and Constitution by Donald J. Devine[3] | ” |
| “ | Communications in a direct personal positive manner. Always speak in a positive vernacular. Expressing firm thought and specific conviction. NEVER start a comment or statement with: "I don't think..." ALWAYS realize that answering a question with "yes" or "no" merely validates the opinion of what other people already think and all you have accomplished is that the other person has put you into an opinion "pigeon hole". Words matter... "NEVER" let your words be taken out of context![3] | ” |
| “ | Broad eclectic experience in pragmatic rational thought. Extensive experience as international traveler and international business experience as the face-to-face representative of the many major Silicon Valley, California companies where I have worked.[3] | ” |
| “ | Integrity in thought, word and deed. Understand the US Constitution in it's prognostication of America's evolution. Mindful of US Congress being a team play.[3] | ” |
| “ | To achieve US Congress legislation to legalize Alternate Graded Voting within all US Federal and states and territories.[3] | ” |
| “ | Maybe not the first, yet certainly the one I have mostly always liked the most. On September 12, 1962, President Kennedy delivered his speech before a crowd of 35,000 people in the Rice University football stadium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon[3] | ” |
| “ | I mowed lawns with a hand push lawnmower. I learned it is smarter to mow grass more often, keeping its length within limits than to let it grow to a greater length that required a huge effort to cut it. Three hot humid Illinois summers.[3] | ” |
| “ | Was my first one. I got my Grandfathers car stuck in a back-road mud-hole.[3] | ” |
| “ | Flying General Aviation airplanes. I enjoy complex multitasking to exercise my mental cognitive skills. And a great way to travel to off-the-grid fishing locations.[3] | ” |
| “ | Lots of them[3] | ” |
| “ | Batman. However, since I can't be Batman, best to be myself.[3] | ” |
| “ | Family[3] | ” |
| “ | I'm Dreaming of White Christmas.[3] | ” |
| “ | Long list, yet nearly perfect health. There is no wealth like good health![3] | ” |
| “ | U.S. House of Representatives was felt by the Founding Fathers as their finest creation.[3] | ” |
| “ | Yes, as in all things, breath of international professional experience especially international political experience. From first time in 2000, I have been a U.S. State Department international election observer with OSCE in Europe. The new emerging democracies evolving out of the breakup of Yugoslavia.[3] | ” |
| “ | Communications networks security.[3] | ” |
| “ | Chairman of the House Oversight Committee to replace Rep Trey Gowdy.[3] | ” |
| “ | N/A[3] | ” |
| “ | Yes, our Founding Fathers wanted to keep Congressional Representatives on a short leash.[3] | ” |
| “ | Not required with many more candidates on a November General Election ballot with Alternative Graded Voting to determine the 50+% elected person. AND identify the particular candidate that received to most LAST choice votes.[3] | ” |
| “ | Illinois has 102 counties and only 18 US Congress Representatives. That is average of about 5.5 counties per district. Redistricting following county boundaries would hugely simplify the work of Registrar of Voters personnel.[3] | ” |
| “ | Chairman of the House Oversight Committee to replace Rep Trey Gowdy.[3] | ” |
| “ | Abraham Lincoln, Illinois state Representative. The question does not ask 'where' representative.[3] | ” |
See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Constant G. "Connor" VlaKancic's responses," February 28, 2018
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