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Illinois Solidarity Party
FounderAdlai Stevenson III
Founded1986; 40 years ago (1986)
Dissolved1992; 34 years ago (1992)
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois
Presidential candidateLenora Fulani (1988, 1992)
IdeologyAnti-LaRouche movement
Liberalism

The Illinois Solidarity Party was an American political party in the state of Illinois. It was named after Lech Wałęsa's Solidarity movement in Poland, which was then widely admired in Illinois because of its very large Polish-American population, especially around Chicago.

The party was founded in 1986 by Senator Adlai Stevenson III in reaction to the Democratic Party's nomination of two followers of Lyndon LaRouche in the race for high state offices: Mark Fairchild, who was running for Lieutenant Governor, and Janice Hart, who was running for Illinois Secretary of State. Stevenson, a Democratic candidate for Illinois Governor, did not want to run alongside anybody associated with LaRouche's organization.

The Solidarity Party continued to exist, unaffiliated with Stevenson, after the 1986 election. In the 1987 Chicago mayoral election, Edward Vrdolyak ran for mayor of Chicago on the Illinois Solidarity Party ticket, which provided the major opposition to incumbent Harold Washington, Chicago's first African-American mayor. Vrdolyak lost to Washington by a final tally of 53%–43%.

The party's continued existence afterward made it an easy target for other small political parties to "take over" whenever necessary. One such group was the New Alliance Party (NAP), which was largely unknown in Illinois but still managed to run some of its candidates for local offices. The NAP founder Lenora Fulani campaigned as a Solidarity Party presidential candidate in 1988 and 1992.

Electoral history

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President

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Year Candidate Popular vote % Pos. Result Ref.
1988 Lenora Fulani
Joyce Dattner		 10,276
0.22%
 4th Lost [1]: 1 

Congressional elections

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Year Chamber District Candidate Popular vote % Pos. Result Ref.
1986 Senate N/a Einar V. Dyhrkopp 15,804
0.50%
 3rd Lost [2]: 10 
1988 House of Representatives 9th Jessie Fields 2,000
0.97%
 3rd Lost [1]: 23 
1990 House of Representatives 5th Ronald "Ron" Bartos 3,001
2.69%
 3rd Lost [3]: 26 
10th Herbert L. Gorrell 2,243
1.46%
 3rd Lost [3]: 28 
11th Larry Saska 2,692
1.74%
 3rd Lost [3]: 29 
12th Steve Pedersen 24,450
17.77%
 2nd Lost
15th Brian James O'Neill II 2,250
1.30%
 3rd Lost [3]: 35 

Statewide elections

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Year Office Candidate Popular vote % Pos. Result Ref.
1986 Governor Adlai Stevenson III
Mike Howlett		 1,256,626
39.96%
 2nd Lost [2]: 12 
Attorney General John Ray Keith 33,702
1.08%
 3rd Lost [2]: 15 
Secretary of State Jane N. Spirgel 521,410
16.70%
 2nd Lost [2]: 17 
Comptroller A. Patricia Scott 78,389
2.55%
 3rd Lost [2]: 19 
Treasurer William E. Skedd 50,570
1.64%
 3rd Lost [2]: 21 
University of Illinois trustees Elena Mulcahy 108,337
1.29%
 7th Lost [2]: 23 
James S. Spencer 102,419
1.22%
 8th
Philip Martin 92,253
1.10%
 9th
1988 University of Illinois trustees Martin C. Ortega 97,887
0.82%
 9th Lost [1]: 8 
Alan Port 61,935
0.52%
 11th Lost [1]: 8 
1990 Governor Jessie Fields
Marisellis Brown		 35,067
1.07%
 3rd Lost [3]: 4 
University of Illinois trustees Martin C. Ortega 226,103
2.69%
 7th Lost [3]: 19 

Legislative elections

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Year Chamber District Candidate Popular vote % Pos. Result Ref.
1988 Senate 15th Bernard Cole 942
1.10%
 3rd Lost [1]: 35 
21st Earl N. Smith 780
0.95%
 3rd Lost [1]: 36 
House of Representatives 26th Chuck Edmonds 310
0.94%
 3rd Lost [1]: 55 
30th Edward O'Malley 683
1.60%
 3rd Lost [1]: 56 
42nd Vernell Smith 352
0.94%
 3rd Lost [1]: 60 
76th Robert Hugh Lee 2,415
7.48%
 2nd Lost [1]: 71 
1990 House of Representatives 30th Stanley J. Gruca 564
1.73%
 3rd Lost [3]: 57 

Judicial elections

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Year Court Candidate Popular vote % Pos. Result Ref.
1988 Circuit Court of Cook County Patrick J. O'Malley 94,642
12.01%
 2nd Lost [1]: 106 

Local elections

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Year Area Office Candidate Popular vote % Pos. Result Ref.
1987 Chicago Mayor Edward Vrdolyak 468,493
41.96%
 2nd Lost [4]
1988 Cook County Recorder of Deeds Edward M. Wojkowski 62,968
3.35%
 3rd Lost [5]: 12 
1990 Cook County Sheriff William M. Piecuch, Sr. 7,648
1.41%
 4th Lost [6]: 8 

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Illinois State Board of Elections (ed.). "Official Vote Cast at the General Election November 8, 1988" (PDF). Retrieved July 18, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Illinois State Board of Elections (ed.). "Official Vote Cast at the General Election November 4, 1986" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 2, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Illinois State Board of Elections (ed.). "Official Vote Cast at the General Election November 6, 1990" (PDF). Retrieved July 18, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Mayoral Elections Since 1900". Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. Archived from the original on July 18, 2004. Retrieved July 18, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Official Final Results—General Election: Cook County, Illinois" (PDF). November 8, 1988. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 3, 2008. Retrieved July 18, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Official Final Results—General Election: Cook County, Illinois" (PDF). November 6, 1990. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 3, 2008. Retrieved July 18, 2026.
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