Elections · U.S. House, District 14 · Illinois
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Raised for this seat
$141K
Through June 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$32K
Through June 30, 2026
On the November ballot
Marter faces Lauren Underwood for this seat on November 3, 2026.
The ballot as filed by the nominee source, recorded August 27, 2026, not a prediction. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.
Where the money comes from
- Small donors
- 18%$25K
- Large donors
- 82%$115K
- PACs
- <1%$100
- Party
- --
- Self-funding
- <1%$382
- Other
- <1%$100
Receipts reported through June 30, 2026. Source: FEC.
How to vote in Illinois
- General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks
Register 28 days before (16 days if online), or same-day through Election Day in person.
The district they want to represent
- People
- 764K
- Median household income
- $96K
- Unemployment
- 5.2%
- Living below the poverty line
- 9.2%
- Without health insurance
- 6.0%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
Against the field for this seat
Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, in ballot order, not money order.
- Lauren Underwood$2.4M
- James Marterthis page$141K
- Gary Vician$68K
Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record.
In their own words
What Marter's campaign says it would work on.
The priorities Marter's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.
- “Cut Spending”
- “Grow Opportunity”
- “Protect Freedom”
- “Improve Security”
- “Unite America”
- “Issues at a glance”
Quoted from marter4congress.us, read August 14, 2026. A campaign site changes; this is what it said on that date. Curia quotes these and does not check, rate or rank them.
Record in office
Marter has not held this office, so there is no federal voting record, no cosponsorships and no committee service to report.
That absence is not a position for or against anything; it is what a first federal campaign looks like in the public record.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Portrait: Campaign photo, campaign website (reference use, candidate's own published headshot). Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.