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Mariyana Spyropoulos
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2024 - Present
2028
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Mariyana Spyropoulos (Democratic Party) is the Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court in Illinois. She assumed office on December 1, 2024. Her current term ends on December 1, 2028.
Spyropoulos (Democratic Party) ran for election for Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court in Illinois. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2024)
General election
General election for Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court
Mariyana Spyropoulos defeated Lupe Aguirre and Michael Murphy in the general election for Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mariyana Spyropoulos (D) | 68.0 | 1,322,315 | |
 | Lupe Aguirre (R) | 25.6 | 498,205 | |
 | Michael Murphy (L)  | 6.4 | 124,368 | |
| Total votes: 1,944,888 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court
Mariyana Spyropoulos defeated incumbent Iris Martinez in the Democratic primary for Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mariyana Spyropoulos | 65.2 | 329,635 | |
 | Iris Martinez | 34.8 | 176,195 | |
| Total votes: 505,830 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court
Lupe Aguirre advanced from the Republican primary for Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lupe Aguirre | 100.0 | 76,577 |
| Total votes: 76,577 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Michael Murphy advanced from the Libertarian primary for Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Spyropoulos in this election.
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2022)
General election
General election for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (3 seats)
Incumbent Mariyana Spyropoulos, Patricia Theresa Flynn, and Yumeka Brown defeated R. Cary Capparelli and Mark Buettner in the general election for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mariyana Spyropoulos (D) | 29.6 | 865,103 | |
| ✔ | Patricia Theresa Flynn (D) | 26.2 | 766,291 | |
| ✔ |  | Yumeka Brown (D) | 24.3 | 710,037 |
 | R. Cary Capparelli (R) | 12.5 | 365,671 | |
 | Mark Buettner (G) | 7.5 | 219,711 | |
| Total votes: 2,926,813 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mariyana Spyropoulos | 22.2 | 257,580 | |
| ✔ | Patricia Theresa Flynn | 17.4 | 201,003 | |
| ✔ | | Yumeka Brown | 16.0 | 185,222 |
 | Sharon Waller | 12.9 | 149,165 | |
 | Precious Brady-Davis | 10.9 | 126,672 | |
| Frank Avila | 8.6 | 99,815 | ||
| Rick Garcia | 6.6 | 76,019 | ||
| Cristina Nonato | 5.4 | 62,738 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 5 | ||
| Total votes: 1,158,219 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (3 seats)
R. Cary Capparelli advanced from the Republican primary for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | R. Cary Capparelli | 100.0 | 100,427 |
| Total votes: 100,427 | |||
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2016
Cook County held elections for county board of review, state's attorney, clerk of the circuit court, county recorder, and special districts in 2016. The general election was held on November 8, 2016. A primary election was held on March 15, 2016.[1] The following candidates ran in the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago general election for the 3 full-term open seats.[2]
| Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, 3 full-term seats General Election, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Barbara McGowan Incumbent |
28.79% | 1,150,063 | |
| Democratic | Mariyana Spyropoulos Incumbent |
23.83% | 951,773 | |
| Democratic | Josina Morita |
23.03% | 919,714 | |
| Green | Karen Roothaan | 8.61% | 343,930 | |
| Green | Michael Smith | 8.02% | 320,162 | |
| Green | George Milkowski | 7.73% | 308,576 | |
| Total Votes | 3,994,218 | |||
| Source: Cook County Clerk, "Cook County and The City of Chicago Combined Summary, General Election November 8, 2016," accessed November 27, 2016 | ||||
| Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, 3 full-term seats Primary Election, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Barbara McGowan Incumbent |
23.69% | 210,203 |
| Mariyana Spyropoulos Incumbent |
20.15% | 178,797 |
| Josina Morita |
17.39% | 154,304 |
| Kevin McDevitt | 15.01% | 133,168 |
| Joseph Cook | 14.83% | 131,599 |
| R. Cary Capparelli | 8.93% | 79,275 |
| Total Votes | 887,346 | |
| Source: Cook County Clerk, "March 15, 2016 Presidential Primary Election Results," accessed September 12, 2016 | ||
Campaign themes
2024
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2022
Mariyana Spyropoulos did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
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