Illinois · U.S. Senate
IL Class 2 Senate seat
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing.
Candidate source
Candidate source: Illinois State Board of Elections (elections.il.gov), Candidate Filing Search for the General Election 11/3/2026, printable 'Website Candidate List' PDFs generated 9/28/2026 6:48 PM — ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS - WEBSITE CANDIDATE LIST - All Candidates as of 9/28/2026 (Representative in Congress and United States Senator) (retrieved 2026-09-28). Absence of a candidate row is never evidence that a race has no candidates.
How the candidate list was checked
Rows read from the official source: 42 · published here: 42 · left out by rule: 0 · held back for review: 0. 42 federal candidate rows observed (38 Representative-in-Congress + 4 United States Senator); all 17 Illinois congressional districts are covered (01..17), each with both major-party nominees; 3 independent filings were removed by the Board and are emitted with status withdrawn (Mayra Macias and Byron Sigcho Lopez, 4th Congress, removed 7/21/2026; Tyrone F Muhammad, US Senate, removed 7/14/2026); Chris Getty (4th Congress, Independent) remains Active and is emitted qualified_for_general. 'Redaction Requested' annotations under Delia Ramirez (3rd) and La Shawn K. Ford (7th) are address-withholding notes, not status changes. US Senate 2026 = Class II (Durbin open seat); district '00' denotes the statewide office. Party strings uppercase as printed by SBE. elections.il.gov does not resolve via the default resolver from this environment; fetched by pinning Cloudflare-announced addresses (172.65.90.25) with browser UA; the interactive Candidate Filing Search is an ASP.NET postback whose 'Print This List' endpoint (EOPDFViewer.aspx) returns the printable PDFs archived here. Senate rows carry senate_class=2 designation=regular: Illinois is in the official Senate Class II registry (Durbin open seat, the state's only scheduled 2026 Senate race); withdrawn rows (Muhammad, Macias, Sigcho Lopez removed per the state filing search) keep status withdrawn and are excluded from the active ballot list by status.
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
The current officeholder has not been confirmed in this edition. This does not establish that the seat is vacant.
Upcoming contests
2026-11-03 — general
Don Tracy · REPUBLICAN
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Juliana Stratton · DEMOCRATIC
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Tyrone F Muhammad · INDEPENDENT
Withdrew
Whitfield Harrington Jr · AMERICAN CENTER PARTY
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Polling
Not charted: no nonpartisan poll of the matchup.
PrivateVoteHub Polls from the VoteHub Polling API, retrieved October 7, 2026, used under CC BY 4.0. How polls are chosen
Economic profile of the state this seat represents
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · State of Illinois
- Median household income$83,390± $362
- Poverty rate11.8%± 0.1 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)47.9%± 0.4 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate67.1%± 0.3 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)37.8%± 0.2 ppPopulation 25 years and over
Technical definitions (ACS tables)
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)
- Renter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed: B25070_001 minus B25070_011 (Not computed)
This seat's geography is exactly coterminous with its state (or the District), so the state estimates from the same edition apply directly.
Structural five-year survey conditions — not current monthly conditions. Uncertainties are 90% margins of error: the published ACS margin for median income; Census-formula approximations (ACS handbook ch. 8) for the rates. “Margin unavailable” means the source supplies no usable margin — never zero.
Campaign finances
2025-2026 two-year period (FEC cycle 2026). Committee totals are the FEC’s own candidate-level aggregation — never summed from committee rows here. Independent spending is reported separately and is never part of a candidate’s receipts. An FEC registration is not proof of ballot qualification; candidacy status comes verbatim from the accepted release.
General election · November 3, 2026
“No matching FEC candidate record” means no filing was located — it is never evidence that a candidacy does not exist, and never a ballot-status claim. Candidates’ coverage dates can differ; each row carries its own.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Richard J. Durbin · Democratic · Illinois · served in 22 Congresses since 1983
Identity verified against the official Congress.gov member record (Bioguide D000563), recorded through 2026-10-04T02:54:23Z. Current officeholding is separate from 2026 candidacy status. Official member website.
Recent housing, employment, energy and infrastructure legislation
From the member's sponsored then cosponsored legislation lists (newest first, limit 30 each), the newest items whose CONFIRMED official legislative subjects intersect {Housing and Community Development, Labor and Employment, Energy, Transportation and Public Works, Water Resources Development} are selected, at most 3 sponsored and 2 cosponsored, 5 total. Items whose relevance cannot be confirmed via the official /subjects endpoint are omitted.
- S.5455-119 — Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2026sponsor latest action 2026-09-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text: CR S4861) · subjects: Housing and Community Development
- S.1792-119 — AI Whistleblower Protection Actcosponsor latest action 2025-05-15: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · subjects: Labor and Employment
- SRES.863-119 — A resolution expressing support for designation of the week of September 13 through 19, 2026, as "National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week".cosponsor latest action 2026-09-23: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4958) · subjects: Labor and Employment
Sponsorship is a record of introduction or support — not passage, effectiveness, or economic impact.
Counties and this district
County boundaries for this seat are not published in this release. Explore individual counties on the county map.