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Frederick Collins
Democratic Party
Candidate, Illinois State Senate District 5
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Last election
February 28, 2023
Next election
March 17, 2026
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Frederick Collins (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Illinois State Senate to represent District 5. He declared candidacy for the Democratic primary scheduled on March 17, 2026.[source]

Elections

2026

See also: Illinois State Senate elections, 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 Illinois State Senate District 5

Incumbent Lakesia Collins (D) and Frederick Collins (D) are running in the Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 5 on March 17, 2026.

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2023

See also: Mayoral election in Chicago, Illinois (2023)

General runoff election

General runoff election for Mayor of Chicago

Brandon Johnson defeated Paul Vallas in the general runoff election for Mayor of Chicago on April 4, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Brandon Johnson (Nonpartisan)
 
52.2
 
319,481
Image of Paul Vallas
Paul Vallas (Nonpartisan)
 
47.8
 
293,033

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 612,514
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General election

General election for Mayor of Chicago

The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of Chicago on February 28, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Paul Vallas (Nonpartisan)
 
32.9
 
185,743
✔
Image of Brandon Johnson
Brandon Johnson (Nonpartisan)
 
21.6
 
122,093
Image of Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot (Nonpartisan)
 
16.8
 
94,890
Image of Jesus Garcia
Jesus Garcia (Nonpartisan)
 
13.7
 
77,222
Image of Willie Wilson
Willie Wilson (Nonpartisan)
 
9.1
 
51,567
Image of Ja'Mal Green
Ja'Mal Green (Nonpartisan)
 
2.2
 
12,257
Image of Kambium Buckner
Kambium Buckner (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
2.0
 
11,092
Image of Sophia King
Sophia King (Nonpartisan)
 
1.3
 
7,191
Image of Roderick Sawyer
Roderick Sawyer (Nonpartisan)
 
0.4
 
2,440
Image of Johnny Logalbo
Johnny Logalbo (Nonpartisan) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
15
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Keith Judge (Nonpartisan) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
5
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Stephen Hodge (Nonpartisan) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
4
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Ryan Friedman (Nonpartisan) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
3
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Stephanie Ann Mustari (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
 
0.0
 
1
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Bridgett Palmer (Nonpartisan) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
1

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Total votes: 564,524
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2016

See also: Illinois' 7th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Danny K. Davis (D) defeated Jeffrey Leef (R) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Davis defeated Thomas Day in the Democratic primary on March 15, 2016.[1][2]

U.S. House, Illinois District 7 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngDanny K. Davis Incumbent 84.2% 250,584
     Republican Jeffrey Leef 15.8% 46,882
Total Votes 297,466
Source: Illinois State Board of Elections


U.S. House, Illinois District 7 Democratic Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngDanny Davis Incumbent 81.2% 139,378
Thomas Day 18.8% 32,261
Total Votes 171,639
Source: Illinois State Board of Elections

2015

See also: Chicago, Illinois municipal elections, 2015

The city of Chicago, Illinois, held elections for mayor on February 24, 2015. A runoff took place on April 7, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was November 24, 2014.[3] In the general election for mayor, incumbent Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia advanced past Willie Wilson, Robert W. "Bob" Fioretti and William "Dock" Walls, III.[4] Emanuel defeated Garcia in the runoff election on April 7, 2015.[5] Amara Enyia, Frederick Collins and Gerald Sconyers withdrew from the race.[6] Fenton C. Patterson and Robert Shaw were removed from the ballot.[7][8]

Mayor of Chicago, Runoff Election, 2015
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngRahm Emanuel Incumbent 56.2% 332,171
Jesus "Chuy" Garcia 43.8% 258,562
Total Votes 590,733
Source: Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "Official runoff election results," accessed July 9, 2015


Mayor of Chicago, General Election, 2015
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngRahm Emanuel Incumbent 45.6% 218,217
Green check mark transparent.pngJesus "Chuy" Garcia 33.5% 160,414
Willie Wilson 10.7% 50,960
Robert W. "Bob" Fioretti 7.4% 35,363
William "Dock" Walls, III 2.8% 13,250
Total Votes 478,204
Source: Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "Official general election results," accessed July 9, 2015

2012

See also: Illinois' 1st Congressional District elections, 2012

Collins ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Illinois' 1st District. Collins sought the nomination on the Republican ticket.[9][10]

Incumbent Bobby Rush won in the Democratic primary.[11] Candidate Donald Peloquin won in the Republican primary, defeating Collins.[11]

U.S. House, Illinois District 1 Republican Primary, 2012
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngDonald Peloquin 69.2% 16,355
Frederick Collins 24.4% 5,773
Jimmy Lee Tillman II 6.4% 1,501
Total Votes 23,629

Campaign themes

2026

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2023

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2012

On his 2012 congressional campaign website, Collins highlighted the following issues:[12]

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Job Growth

  • Excerpt: "Spending is not the sole solution; the key is trust between the public and private sector. The reality is that no one will hire without incentives. Businesses need to be confident that profits that will rise, so that people can be offered work – moving America toward vibrant growth and strength. To boost confidence, businesses need tangible incentives to hire employees. Compensating business owners for on-the-job-training or temporarily supplementing salaries of new hires are short-term solutions to reduce unemployment but not a comprehensive answer to the problems we face in the current economy."

Debt and Deficit Reduction

  • Excerpt: "Vigilance is a vital part of the solution. Cracking down on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security fraud along with stringent reviews of government contracts and grants can ensure that spending and the taxpayer’s dollars are no longer wasted."

Making College Affordable

  • Excerpt: "We need the residual effect of expanded state and federal funding for students seeking bachelor and postgraduate degrees. Our global economy demands this training foundation, as a nation, we will not be competitive if higher education is unaffordable, especially as wage disparities increase."

Education

  • Excerpt: "The lack of broad and comprehensive curriculum supported by cutting-edge technology is short-sided and will result in students who are drilled rather than engaged in the process of learning. Often the focus has to be discipline rather than teaching. Without a sound education, the children of today and future generations will have minimal opportunities to compete and succeed in the current global market."

Teachers

  • Excerpt: "Comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of the quality of an educator’s work is essential. One understands that merit-pay, tenure and other performance measures are vital to the conversation. However, in the end – the student should always come first. School districts must reorganize to generate results that will continually benefit the students."

School Choice

  • Excerpt: "With the cornucopia of educational options, there is a newfound emphasis on granting parents and student’s access to alternative schools that have longer academic days, diverse curricula, smaller classes and other desired enhancements. Successful charters must abide by a higher standard where the rate of achievement far outpaces those of “traditional schools”. If not, then we are failing our children by telling them that these alternative venues are the preferred solution."

Poverty

  • Excerpt: "In this economic recession, we still have inflation, increasing higher cost of living and expensive commodities that magnify the cost of our food, clothing, gasoline, utilities and education. The reality is that we cannot end poverty in a year by waving a magic wand. Elected public servants must help all Americans to reach and strive to obtain their dreams of providing a decent life for their families. Citizens must have the opportunity to grow and become successful in their communities."

Taxes

  • Excerpt: "If we eliminate corporate tax loopholes along with billions of subsidy tax dollars to big oil companies, we will achieve greater equality in the tax process and revenues will rise. Lower rates with fewer brackets can benefit the United States’ incessant debt if the government can reduce tax expenditures. If the tax code abides by the edict of fairness for all instead of the few, we propose a fair tax plan. If all income levels pay the same equal tax rate, there will be less confusion."

Social Security

  • Excerpt: "The Simpson-Bowles Commission has some useful proposals. By making the benefit payout more progressive, the program becomes more efficient and prolongs its lifespan. Increasing the lowest bracket to $15,000 grants more individuals access to 90 percent of their average lifetime income. The other higher brackets would receive progressively less. Long term, low-income people garner more assistance while those with larger incomes receive lower benefits. This may seem unfair but those on the higher end of the scale generally have other retirement savings such as, 401Ks, pensions, and real estate. Also, increasing the cap on payroll taxes from the proposed $168,000 in 2020 to $190,000 would introduce more revenue into the trust. Increased taxable income equals greater benefits for Social Security as a whole."

Medicare

  • Excerpt: "An increase in Medicare taxes for high-income earners designates more funding to the program, but cutting some payments to medical providers and subsidies to Medicare Advantage may mean that patients and hospitals suffer in the long term. Vouchers are not the solution. We need a Medicare program that sustains low costs for seniors, however, if doctors and hospitals are not receiving payments then there is no question that healthcare costs will rise for everyone."

Agriculture

  • Excerpt: "Many large corporate farmers admit that in today’s climate, subsidies are not as crucial. In upcoming deficit negotiations, one should expect subsidies to be on the chopping block. However, using the money to help develop technologies and methods that are more cost effective is more than a reasonable idea. Small and medium sized farms may be able to deliver their products to market faster by using measures that require less time and reduce expenses – thereby increasing profits for today’s family farmers."

Abortion

  • Excerpt: "I am pro-life. But as a male, I cannot make a life choice on behalf of a potential mother, nor would I dare. This is not a lighthearted decision, it is one that a person must live with for the rest of their life. Though many have personal objections to such a procedure, one individual has little right to stipulate what another individual must do with their own body, especially in a case where aborting the pregnancy is a decision made because it was caused by a rape or by incest -or where the fetus become a life or death decision for the mother."

Same Sex Marriage/ Civil Unions

  • Excerpt: "I believe that marriage is between a man and woman, but I realize that people have their own prerogative and right to choose who they wish to love and spend their life with."[13]
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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Illinois State Board of Elections, "Candidate List," accessed November 30, 2015
    2. ↑ The New York Times, "Illinois Primary Results," March 15, 2016
    3. ↑ Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "2015 Election Calendar," accessed August 21, 2014
    4. ↑ Ace of Spades, "Unofficial 2015 Chicago Election Results," accessed February 24, 2015
    5. ↑ Ace of Spades HQ Decision Desk, "Unofficial Election Results," accessed April 7, 2015
    6. ↑ Chicago Sun Times, "Enyia dropping out of mayoral race, endorsing Fioretti," December 10, 2014
    7. ↑ NBC Chicago, "Patterson Bumped From Mayoral Ballot," December 18, 2014
    8. ↑ Chicago Business, "Dozens quit or knocked off ballot in City Hall races," December 30, 2014
    9. ↑ Illinois State Board of Elections, "Candidate List," accessed December 27, 2011
    10. ↑ Chicago Tribune, "Illinois congressional candidates seek spots on ballot" accessed December 27, 2011
    11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 ABC News 7, "Election Results Primary 2012," accessed March 20, 2012 (dead link)
    12. ↑ Collins for Congress, "Positions" accessed January 4, 2012
    13. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.


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