| Polls close at 8:00 Eastern Time Democratic Senator Primary Candidate
| Percent of Vote
| | | | | |  Alexi Giannoulias
| 39 | | | | | | David Hoffman
| 34 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Percent of vote in: 99%
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Democratic Governor Primary Candidate
| Percent of Vote
| | | | | | | Pat Quinn | 50.4 (+7,202) | | | | | | | Dan Hynes | 49.6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Percent of vote in: 99.1%
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UPDATE: 9:16 ET - with 30% of the vote in, Mark Kirk is at 63% with his nearest competitor at 17%. No one has called anything, but it should be no surprise that he will be the GOP Senatorial candidate. UPDATE: 10:10 ET: Kirk officially wins in a cakewalk. He's currently at 58% with 67% in. UPDATE: 10:27: Hynes keeps creeping closer. Giannoulias continues to pull away. UPDATE: 10:48: Hoffman concedes. UPDATE 11:10: Hynes closes to within 5200 votes. ___ While waiting the for polls to close, there's this: A mouthy Cook County election judge was booted from the precinct where he was working this afternoon for attempting to vote several times,
And this: Any afternoon rush hour in the Chicago area on primary day was confined to the streets and did not appear to extend to polling places.
Election officials said voter turnout was poor from the get-go today and didn't appear to get much better as the 7 p.m. poll closing time approached.
At the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners there was worry that turnout could rival the city's record low of just under 25 percent hit in 1958, another year when the economy was in a swoon.
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