A new poll of Illinois voters by Emerson College says Gov. JB Pritzker carries a 40.5% approval rating.
That’s down 13.5% from the most recent, previous approval ranking I can find on Pritzker. That previous poll by Morning Consult had him at 54% approval and was published in July 2023.
The new Emerson poll asked, “Do you approve or disapprove of the job JB Pritzker is doing as Governor?” Approvals were 40.5% and disapprovals 35%.
The poll also asked Illinois voters about Donald Trump and Joe Biden, finding Biden with a 35% approval rating, while 44% disapprove of the job the president is doing. Biden leads Trump by nine points in a hypothetical 2024 general election matchup, 43% to 34%. Fourteen percent support someone else and 9% are undecided. That’s a substantial drop from 2020 when Trump lost to Biden in Illinois by 17%.
Emerson’s news release on the poll is here and the full results can be downloaded by clicking here.
From the pollster:
The Emerson College Polling Illinois poll was conducted October 1-4, 2023. The sample consisted of 468 Illinois voters with a credibility interval, similar to a poll’s margin of error of +/- 4.5 percentage points; the sample of Illinois residents is n=489 with a credibility interval of 4.4 percentage points. The data sets were weighted by gender, age, race, party, and education based on the general population using a sample of n=489 participants and allowing the natural fallout to create the sample of n=468 voters. Turnout modeling is based on US Census parameters, and Illinois voter registration and voter turnout data by regions (IL SOS). Data was collected by contacting a list of emails provided by Aristotle, along with an online panel of voters provided by Alchemer.