United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2024
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November 5, 2024 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Illinois were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected 17 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 17 U.S. House districts. The primary was March 19, 2024. The filing deadline was December 4, 2023.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Illinois -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 14 | 14 | |
| Republican Party | 3 | 3 | |
| Total | 17 | 17 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Jonathan Jackson (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Marcus Lewis (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Jonathan Jackson (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 2
General election candidates
- Robin Kelly (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Ashley Ramos (Republican Party)
- Mike Vick (Independent) (Write-in)
Democratic primary candidates
- Robin Kelly (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 3
General election candidates
- Delia Ramirez (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- John Booras (Republican Party)
- Angel Oakley (Independent) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Angel Oakley (Independent)
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- Delia Ramirez (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 4
General election candidates
- Jesus Garcia (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Lupe Castillo (Republican Party)
- Ed Hershey (Working Class Party)
- Alicia Martinez (Independent) (Write-in)
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- Jesus Garcia (Incumbent) ✔
- Raymond Lopez
Republican primary candidates
The Republican Party primary was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
District 5
General election candidates
- Mike Quigley (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Tom Hanson (Republican Party)
- Frank Rowder (Independent) (Write-in)
Democratic primary candidates
- Mike Quigley (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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- Tom Hanson ✔
- Frank Rowder (Write-in)
District 6
General election candidates
- Sean Casten (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Niki Conforti (Republican Party)
- Peter Meyer Jr. (Independent) (Write-in)
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- Sean Casten (Incumbent) ✔
- Mahnoor Ahmad
- Charles Hughes
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District 7
General election candidates
- Danny K. Davis (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Chad Koppie (Republican Party)
- Lien Choi (Independent) (Write-in)
- Lowell Seida (Independent) (Write-in)
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 8
General election candidates
- Raja Krishnamoorthi (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Mark Rice (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Jorge Briseno (Independent)
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- Raja Krishnamoorthi (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 9
General election candidates
- Jan Schakowsky (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Seth Alan Cohen (Republican Party)
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- Jan Schakowsky (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Michael Walters (Write-in)
District 10
General election candidates
- Brad Schneider (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Jim Carris (Republican Party)
- Joseph Severino (Independent) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Austin Mink (Independent)
- Joseph Severino (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
- Brad Schneider (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
District 11
General election candidates
- Bill Foster (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Jerry Evans (Republican Party)
- Anna Schiefelbein (Independent) (Write-in)
Democratic primary candidates
- Bill Foster (Incumbent) ✔
- Qasim Rashid
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Did not make the ballot:
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District 12
General election candidates
- Mike Bost (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Brian Roberts (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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- Mike Bost (Incumbent) ✔
- Darren Bailey
District 13
General election candidates
- Nikki Budzinski (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Joshua Loyd (Republican Party)
- Chibu Asonye (Independent) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Chibu Asonye (Green Party)
- Bradley Horges Jr. (Independent) (Write-in)
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- Nikki Budzinski (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
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District 14
General election candidates
- Lauren Underwood (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- James Marter (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Lauren Underwood (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
- Charlie Kim
- James Marter ✔
- Krystal Dorey (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
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District 15
General election candidates
- Mary Miller (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
- Kevin Gaither (Write-in)
Republican primary candidates
- Mary Miller (Incumbent) ✔
District 16
General election candidates
- Darin LaHood (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
The Democratic Party primary was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
Republican primary candidates
- Darin LaHood (Incumbent) ✔
District 17
General election candidates
- Eric Sorensen (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Joseph G. McGraw (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Eric Sorensen (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Illinois
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Illinois' 1st Congressional District
- Illinois' 2nd Congressional District
- Illinois' 3rd Congressional District
- Illinois' 4th Congressional District
- Illinois' 5th Congressional District
- Illinois' 6th Congressional District
- Illinois' 7th Congressional District
- Illinois' 8th Congressional District
- Illinois' 9th Congressional District
- Illinois' 10th Congressional District
- Illinois' 11th Congressional District
- Illinois' 12th Congressional District
- Illinois' 13th Congressional District
- Illinois' 14th Congressional District
- Illinois' 15th Congressional District
- Illinois' 16th Congressional District
- Illinois' 17th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Illinois in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Illinois, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Illinois | U.S. House | Democratic | 685[5] | N/A | 12/4/2023 | Source |
| Illinois | U.S. House | Republican | 536[6] | N/A | 12/4/2023 | Source |
| Illinois | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 12,188[7] | N/A | 6/24/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Illinois.
| Illinois U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 46 | 34 | 5 | 6 | 32.4% | 5 | 29.4% | ||||
| 2022 | 17 | 17 | 4 | 95 | 34 | 8 | 11 | 55.9% | 7 | 46.7% | ||||
| 2020 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 73 | 36 | 13 | 8 | 58.3% | 10 | 58.8% | ||||
| 2018 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 79 | 36 | 12 | 8 | 55.6% | 7 | 41.2% | ||||
| 2016 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 49 | 36 | 8 | 6 | 38.9% | 7 | 41.2% | ||||
| 2014 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 50 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 25.0% | 3 | 16.7% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Illinois in 2024. Information below was calculated on 2/16/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time. </noinclude>
Forty-nine candidates filed to run for Illinois' 17 U.S. House districts, including 24 Democrats and 25 Republicans. That's 2.59 candidates per district. In 2022, the first election after the number of Congressional districts in Illinois decreased from 18 to 17, 5.59 candidates filed per district.
In 2020, when the state still had 18 Congressional districts, 4.1 candidates ran. In 2018, 4.4 candidates did.
The number of total candidates who ran for the U.S. House in 2024 was the fewest since at least 2014.
All incumbents ran for re-election this year, meaning no seats were open for the first time since 2014. In 2022, four seats were open, and one seat was open in 2020, 2028, and 2016.
Six candidates—five Democrats and one Republican—ran in the 7th district, including incumbent Danny K. Davis (D). That was the most candidates who ran for a single district in 2024.
Eleven primaries were contested in 2024—five Democratic and six Republican. That was the fewest contested primaries since 2014, when nine were.
Five incumbents faced primary challengers—four Democrats and one Republican. That was also the fewest since 2014, when three incumbents faced primary challengers.
The 4th District was guaranteed to Democrats because no Republican candidates filed. The 15th and Illinois' 16th Congressional District were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Illinois, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Illinois' 1st | Jonathan Jackson |  Democratic |
D+20 |
| Illinois' 2nd | Robin Kelly | Democratic |
D+19 |
| Illinois' 3rd | Delia Ramirez | Democratic |
D+20 |
| Illinois' 4th | Jesus Garcia | Democratic |
D+22 |
| Illinois' 5th | Mike Quigley | Democratic |
D+18 |
| Illinois' 6th | Sean Casten | Democratic |
D+3 |
| Illinois' 7th | Danny K. Davis | Democratic |
D+36 |
| Illinois' 8th | Raja Krishnamoorthi | Democratic |
D+6 |
| Illinois' 9th | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic |
D+19 |
| Illinois' 10th | Brad Schneider | Democratic |
D+11 |
| Illinois' 11th | Bill Foster | Democratic |
D+5 |
| Illinois' 12th | Mike Bost |  Republican |
R+24 |
| Illinois' 13th | Nikki Budzinski | Republican |
D+3 |
| Illinois' 14th | Lauren Underwood | Democratic |
D+4 |
| Illinois' 15th | Mary Miller | Republican |
R+22 |
| Illinois' 16th | Darin LaHood | Republican |
R+13 |
| Illinois' 17th | Eric Sorensen | Democratic |
D+2 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Illinois[8] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Illinois' 1st | 70.5% | 28.1% | ||
| Illinois' 2nd | 69.3% | 29.3% | ||
| Illinois' 3rd | 69.7% | 28.3% | ||
| Illinois' 4th | 72.3% | 25.9% | ||
| Illinois' 5th | 68.9% | 29.3% | ||
| Illinois' 6th | 54.5% | 43.6% | ||
| Illinois' 7th | 85.6% | 12.8% | ||
| Illinois' 8th | 56.8% | 41.4% | ||
| Illinois' 9th | 69.9% | 28.4% | ||
| Illinois' 10th | 62.0% | 36.1% | ||
| Illinois' 11th | 56.6% | 41.3% | ||
| Illinois' 12th | 27.7% | 70.5% | ||
| Illinois' 13th | 54.4% | 43.2% | ||
| Illinois' 14th | 54.7% | 43.3% | ||
| Illinois' 15th | 29.6% | 68.3% | ||
| Illinois' 16th | 38.1% | 59.6% | ||
| Illinois' 17th | 52.7% | 44.9% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Illinois' congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Illinois | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 14 | 16 |
| Republican | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 17 | 19 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Illinois' top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Illinois, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | J.B. Pritzker
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| Lieutenant Governor | Juliana Stratton
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| Secretary of State | Alexi Giannoulias
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| Attorney General | Kwame Raoul
|
State legislature
Illinois State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 40 | |
| Republican Party | 19 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 59 | |
Illinois House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 78 | |
| Republican Party | 40 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 118 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Illinois Party Control: 1992-2024
Eighteen years of Democratic trifectas • Two years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Average of all congressional districts.
- ↑ Average of all congressional districts.
- ↑ Average of all congressional districts.
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
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