Kane County voter turnout remained steady compared to recent elections

Unofficial results show 74.14% of registered voters in Kane County cast their votes in the 2024 election, up slightly from 73.7% in 2020.

Kane County saw 80,879 in-person voters on Election Day in addition to 142,276 ballots cast by early voters and mail-in ballots for a total of 223,155 votes.

Final totals did not come in until after 11 p.m. on election night because long lines led to some Kane County precincts having voters until after 10 p.m.

Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham said his office has seen a drop in mail-in ballots since the pandemic, when it received more than 100,000 votes by mail, but the rise in in-person voters this year evened out the totals.

There were more than 11,000 fewer votes this year than in the 2020 election, but Cunningham said there were more than 14,000 fewer registered voters this year, so the turnout percentage was about the same.

In the 2020 election 234,781 ballots were cast in Kane County.

In 2022 when there was not a race for president, there were 159,613 ballots cast in Kane County, a turnout of about 53% of registered voters.