Wow. Illinois’s Senate races sorted out as expected: Mark Kirk wins the GOP nod, Alexi Giannoulias winning the Democratic nod (but by only about 5 percent over former Chicago inspector general David Hoffman).

But in the governor’s races, it’s two extremely tight races:

Bill Brady of Bloomington and Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale were within 1,500 votes of each other with 99 percent of the unofficial vote counted this morning. Each had 20 percent of the tally in a six-way contest.
On the Democratic side, Gov. Pat Quinn declared himself the winner, even though Comptroller Dan Hynes had not conceded defeat. Hynes trailed by fewer than 6,000 votes as results trickled in.

Recounts are expected.

Turnout in the Democratic primary was about 900,000; turnout in the GOP primary was about 758,000.

According to Public Policy Polling, in 2004, there were 600,000 more Democratic primary voters than GOP primary voters.