The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Not a prediction.
The seat
Richard Durbin
Democrat · Holds the seat now
First took office 1983 · Age 81
Not on the November ballot
How to vote in Illinois
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 28 days before (16 days if online), or same-day through Election Day in person.
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How they won the primary
The primary · 1,256,822 votes
- Juliana Stratton Won: 40.4% 507,689
- Raja Krishnamoorthi: 32.7% 411,150
- Robin Kelly: 18.3% 229,788
- Kevin Ryan: 4.9% 61,914
- Bryan Maxwell: 0.8% 10,070
5 more candidates in the full results at the source named below.
The primary · 539,344 votes
- Don Tracy Won: 40.0% 215,523
- Jeannie Evans: 22.8% 122,840
- Casey Chlebek: 11.2% 60,222
- R. Cary Capparelli: 10.6% 56,907
- Pamela Denise Long: 10.0% 53,810
1 more candidate in the full results at the source named below.
Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Illinois State Board of Elections proclaimed primary results. Certified April 17, 2026. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.
The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $46M
- Outside money
- $25M
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $5.1M of the race's $25M was spent on candidates not listed here.
Where each candidate's money comes from
Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.
Who is spending on this race
The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Also filed for this seat
32 filedNot on the November ballot
- Richard DurbinDemocrat$2.4M
- Steve BotsfordDemocrat$373K
- Awisi BustosDemocrat$42K
- Casimer ChlebekRepublican$202K
- Jonathan DeanDemocrat$124K
Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.
Ballot status not confirmed
- Bradley Horges Jr.
- Austin MinkIndependent
- Tyrone MuhammadIndependent
- Joseph Schilling
- Anthony SmithIndependent
None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.
Filed with the FEC for this seat. No source on record says whether they qualified for the November ballot: independent and minor-party candidates qualify through the state, often by petition, and the FEC does not track whether they did.
How this seat voted last time
D+16 in 2020
- Richard Durbin Won: 54.9%
- Mark C. Curran Jr.: 38.9%
5,968,901 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 6.2%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.
Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.