2025 Illinois Municipal Election recap

The 2025 Illinois municipal elections are over, and we at the Quad Cities Chamber look forward to continuing our advocacy efforts to make the Quad Cities a prosperous community where all can thrive. The Chamber congratulates each of the winners and looks forward to collaborating with both new and familiar faces in the coming years. Here is a recap of the unofficial election results in Rock Island, East Moline and Moline: 

Rock Island 

• Ashley Harris won the close mayoral race against incumbent Mike Thoms by 150 votes. 
• The 1st Ward race between Glen Evans and write-in candidate Tanya Roberts is still not fully counted since write-in votes take longer to process. At the time of this recap, write-in votes outnumber votes for Mr. Evans 166 to 162.  
• Linda Barnes won the race for Ward 3 Alderperson, defeating Sarah Wright and Mark Sikes with 469 votes to their 238 and 285, respectively. Barnes is the former City Finance Director and has a 30+ year history of public service.  
• Incumbent Ward 5 Alderperson Dylan Parker defeated challenger Laurie Figley by a margin of 426-178 
• Incumbent Ward 7 Alderperson Bill Healy cruised to re-election with 92% of the vote, only opposed by a write-in challenger.  

East Moline 

• The Home Rule ballot initiative was rejected by voters in East Moline, with 1,955 ‘No’ votes and 939 ‘Yes’ votes.  
• In Ward 1, Incumbent Alderperson Olivia Dorothy prevailed with 159 votes, defeating challenger Stephen Ramirez.  
• Larry Jones won the open Ward 3 race with 185 votes, defeating Mereleena Olvera and Belinda L. Rusch.  
• J.R. Rico will continue representing Ward 7 after squeaking past challenger Jonathan Simon by a vote margin of 122-117.  
• Mayor Reggie Freeman won his unopposed race with 2,497 votes. 
• Unopposed incumbents Rhea Oakes and Lynn Segura won re-election. 

Moline  

• Every race in Moline was uncontested, with incumbent Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati and incumbent alderpersons James Patrick Schmidt, Alvaro Macias, Matt Timion and Dan McNeil all winning their respective re-election bids.