Press Release:  ICYMI: DPI Chair Hernandez is Re-Elected and Ready to Win in November’s Midterms

Springfield, IL— In case you missed it, this Monday Deputy Majority Leader Lisa Hernandez was elected to a second term as Democratic Party of Illinois Chair.

Over the last four years, Chair Hernandez’s party has won up and down the ballot and has mobilized Illinois voters, electeds and volunteers across demographics and regions, creating a robust and diverse state party—a stark contrast to Illinois Republicans’ inability to fundraise, organize, or call out the Trump administration’s assault on working families and attacks on already marginalized groups.

Key excerpts from Capitol News Illinois: Hernandez reelected chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois

By Brenden Moore

• Hernandez described the party when she took the reigns as “a hollow shell.” But “fast forward to now, and you have a party that operates year-round, who has a team that is available” to assist with candidate recruitment and training as well as tools to run county parties.

• Nowhere was this more apparent than in local races. In 2023, the party launched a digital and mail advertising program targeting conservative candidates for typically low-cost, low-interest library and school board races. It paid off, with 73 of the 101 candidates DPI targeted losing their races while 84 of 117 endorsed candidates were elected.

• Taking advantage of the permanent vote-by-mail list, 222 of 280 candidates endorsed in 2025 local races won.

• “We built it, but the work is not over,” Hernandez said. “The work to continue expanding our voter base is really very important to us, especially in this year… it’s not just winning in November, it’s really knocking that out of the ballpark and utilizing the kind of resources to engage folks into the political process.”

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