No clear winner yet in 37th Illinois Senate District GOP primary

With an estimated 95% of votes counted on Wednesday, the GOP primary for Illinois's 37th State Senate District remains too close to call.

Win Stoller, the incumbent state senator first elected in 2020, holds a narrow lead over Brett Nicklaus, a former Lee County precinct chairman and conservative activist. The current tally shows 11,122 votes for Stoller and 10,595 for Nicklaus, for a 51.2% to 48.8% split.

"My team continues to monitor results to ensure all legally cast ballots are counted," Nicklaus said in a statement to the Journal Star. "I acknowledge my opponent's apparent lead and look forward to the final results."

Stoller's office did not immediately return a request for comment.

The winner of the primary will likely run unopposed in the November general election, as no Democrat is running for the office.

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The 37th Senate district, which was reshaped during the 2020 redistricting cycle, stretches south to include part of North Peoria, Germantown Hills and part of Chillicothe and north into DeKalb in the western Chicago suburbs.

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