How Bourbonnais Township Voted on the Road District, Precinct by Precinct

Unofficial. These are election night totals from the Kankakee County Clerk. Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day can still arrive, provisional ballots are still being reviewed, and the results become official at the county canvass later this month. Nothing here is likely to change the road district result; individual precinct numbers can move a little.

Disclosure: Before the election, The Bourbs published an opinion in our road district explainer saying we thought voters should vote No. This page is reporting, not opinion: every number comes from the Kankakee County Clerk's posted results, and the methods are explained at the bottom.

The short version

No won everywhere but one place. No carried 18 of the township's 19 precincts. The only Yes precinct was Bourbonnais 13, by 211 to 204.
It didn't follow the 2025 map. Jason Diaz, who urged a No vote, won the Highway Commissioner race in April 2025 by 200 votes and carried 10 precincts to Steven Bisaillon's 8. On Nov. 3, 7 of the 8 precincts Bisaillon won voted No.
Almost every precinct moved the same direction. Compared with Diaz's 2025 margin, the No margin was bigger in 18 of 19 precincts. The biggest swing was Bourbonnais 7: Bisaillon won it by 12.6 points in 2025, and No won it by 42.0 points, a 55-point move.
Where Diaz was strong didn't predict much. A precinct's 2025 Diaz share and its 2026 No share are only loosely related (correlation 0.24). The No vote was broad, not a replay of one side's base.
Nearly three times as many people voted. 4,168 people voted in the 2025 Highway Commissioner race, in a low-turnout April election. 12,031 voted on the road district, in a November general election. Township turnout went from 18.0% to 50.5%.

Three township votes about one office

The Highway Commissioner runs the township roads outside the villages. Bisaillon held the job after winning in 2021; Diaz beat him in 2025; on Nov. 3 voters were asked whether to abolish the road district Diaz now runs.

April 2021 · Highway Commissioner4,012 votes · turnout 17.4%

Bisaillon 55.0%Diaz 45.0%

Steven M. Bisaillon 2,205Jason Diaz 1,807

April 2025 · Highway Commissioner4,168 votes · turnout 18.0%

Bisaillon 47.6%Diaz 52.4%

Steven M. Bisaillon 1,984Jason Diaz 2,184

Nov. 2026 · Abolish the road district?12,031 votes · turnout 50.5%

Yes 40.5%No 59.5%

Yes, abolish 4,872No, keep it 7,159

2021 was counted on the old precinct map (20 Bourbonnais precincts; Bisaillon carried 16, Diaz 4). The county redrew precincts in 2022, so 2021 can't be compared precinct by precinct. 2025 and 2026 use the same 19 precincts.

Which way every precinct moved

Each arrow compares the No margin on Nov. 3 with Diaz's margin in April 2025. Diaz campaigned for No, so we line his votes up with the No side. An arrow pointing right means the precinct was more on the No side on Nov. 3 than it was for Diaz; longer means a bigger move. Tap or hover a precinct for its numbers.

Tap a precinct to see both elections side by side.

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The same 19 precincts over a real street map. Zoom in to find your street, and tap a precinct to see both elections. The buttons change what the colors show.

2025 and 2026, side by side

Same 19 precincts. Darker shading means a wider margin.

April 2025: Diaz vs. Bisaillon

Diaz won (10)Bisaillon won (8)Tie (1)

Nov. 2026: Abolish the road district?

No won (18)Yes won (1)

Did Diaz's precincts vote No? Mostly, but so did everyone else.

Each dot is a precinct: how it voted for Diaz in 2025 (left to right) against how it voted No on Nov. 3 (bottom to top). Dots above the dashed line gave No a bigger share than they gave Diaz. Bigger dots had more votes tonight.

Correlation between the two: 0.24 (1 would mean the 2026 vote tracked the 2025 vote exactly). Only Bourbonnais 3 sits below the line: it was Diaz's best precinct in 2025 (61.1%) and voted 60.3% No on Nov. 3.

Turnout nearly tripled

Share of registered voters who cast a ballot in each precinct. April township elections draw few voters; November general elections draw many more. Some precincts went from under 10% turnout to over 40%.

April 2025Nov. 2026

4,560 ballots of 25,340 registered in April 2025; 12,670 of 25,066 in November 2026. 639 township voters (5.0%) who cast a ballot this week skipped the road district question.

Every precinct

Tap a column to sort. Margin is the leader's lead in percentage points. Shift is the 2026 No margin minus Diaz's 2025 margin; positive means the precinct moved toward the No side.

Same question, elsewhere on Nov. 3

Two other Illinois townships asked voters the same question on Nov. 3. Both voted to abolish their road districts. Bourbonnais is the one that said no.

Bourbonnais Township

No 59.5%

Kankakee County · road district stays

Northfield Township

Yes 63.9%

Cook County · 18,404 to 10,412 · abolished once the commissioner's term ends in 2029

Schaumburg Township

Yes 60.1%

Cook County · 18,370 to 12,214 · abolished once the commissioner's term ends in 2029

Most past votes on this question also passed: Vernon Township in Lake County (about 75% yes, 2018), Naperville Township (about 75% yes, 2019) and Addison Township in DuPage County (58% yes, 2024). The one recent No we found: Homer Township in Will County, which voted about 56% to 44% to keep its road district in 2020.

What the result means

The Bourbonnais Township Road District stays as its own unit of government, with its own budget and its own piece of the property tax bill.
The Highway Commissioner stays an elected office. Diaz's term runs to May 2029, and the office will be on the ballot then. A Yes vote would have eliminated it when his term ended.
The road levy stays with the road district. A Yes would have moved the power to set it to the Township Board, which said it would cut the levy by $500,000 to $600,000 once in control.
It doesn't settle the disputes behind the vote. The questions about road district bills and bidding, and the Township Board's push for a state law change, are separate from this result.

Background on the question, the money and both sides' arguments is in our explainer, The Road District Vote.

How we did this

Results: Kankakee County Clerk unofficial election results (Clarity Elections), Nov. 3, 2026, final election night update at 10:33 p.m., all 59 county precincts counted. April 2025 and April 2021 Highway Commissioner results are the Clerk's posted results for those elections.
Lining them up: Diaz publicly urged a No vote, so this page compares his 2025 share with the 2026 No share. That is a comparison of two different questions and two very different electorates (an April township election and a November general election). It does not assume anything about how individual 2025 voters, or Bisaillon, felt about the road district.
Swing: 2026 No margin minus 2025 Diaz margin, in percentage points, using only votes for the two sides.
Turnout: ballots cast in the precinct divided by registered voters, from the Clerk's precinct reports. The road district question was on every township ballot.
Map: precinct boundaries from Kankakee County GIS. The road district question was on the ballot in all 19 Bourbonnais Township precincts.
Other townships: Cook County Clerk unofficial results, Nov. 3, 2026. Past votes: Illinois Policy (Vernon), Patch (Naperville, Addison, Homer).

Disclosure: Before the election, The Bourbs published an opinion section in our explainer saying we thought voters should vote No. This page is reporting: every number here comes from the official sources above and can be checked on the live results page.

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