DeKalb County Offices that will be up for Nomination at the General Primary:
Circuit Clerk
Coroner
States Attorney
County Board Members
Precinct Committeepeople will be ELECTED at the General Primary.
Please see the following, for the forms and information needed, for petition filing. These forms are in a PDF fillable format, for your convenience. **In order to use the forms as a PDF fillable, your computer should have the Adobe Acrobat program. If you do not have Adobe, you may print the forms to handwrite the information.
2020 County Wide Candidate Petition Packet
2020 County Board Candidate Petition Packet
2020 Precinct Committeeperson Petition Packet
Petition circulation begins on September 3, 2019
Any questions about circulating petitions or the petition filing process? Please see the information below:
***The Petition Filing Period is November 25, 2019 through December 2, 2019. Filing hours will be November 25th through November 27th, 8:30 – 4:30 and December 2nd, 8:30 – 5:00. (County Offices are closed November 28th and November 29th for the Thanksgiving Holiday). Filing for County Offices takes place in the office of the DeKalb County Clerk/Elections.
For complete information, including Federal and State Offices up for election, Campaign Finance information and the Election Calendar (when available), see the following:
Please feel free to contact our Elections Office, at 815-895-7147 or elections@dekalbcounty.org, with any questions.