URBANA — Newly certified election totals in Champaign County give Bill Brady a six-vote gain in his tight Republican gubernatorial race with Kirk Dillard.
Thirty-one Republican absentee and provisional ballots were counted Tuesday morning in the Champaign County clerk’s office, giving Brady 12 more votes, and six more for Dillard and former Illinois attorney general Jim Ryan, plus two more votes apiece for Andy McKenna, Dan Proft and Adam Andrzejewski and one more for Bob Schillerstrom.
In the most recent, unofficial statewide count following the Feb. 2 primary election, Brady had a 420-vote lead over Dillard. By the end of the day today, Republican officials should have a much better idea if Brady will be their gubernatorial nomineee.
Forty-one Democratic absentee and provisional ballots were counted in Champaign County today, giving Gov. Pat Quinn 3,986 votes to 3,463 for Dan Hynes. Hynes added 20 votes, Quinn got 13 more.
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