Illinois' 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
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Illinois' 2nd Congressional District |
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Election details |
Filing deadline: December 4, 2023 |
Primary: March 19, 2024 General: November 5, 2024 |
How to vote |
Poll times: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting in Illinois |
Race ratings |
Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic |
Ballotpedia analysis |
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All U.S. House districts, including the 2nd Congressional District of Illinois, are holding elections in 2024. The general election is November 5, 2024. The primary was March 19, 2024. The filing deadline was December 4, 2023. The outcome of this race will affect the partisan balance of the U.S. House in 2025.
All 435 seats are up for election. Republicans have a 217 to 212 majority with six vacancies.[1] As of April 2024, 44 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.
Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have received 69.3% of the vote in this district and Donald Trump (R) would have received 29.3%.[2]
For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:
- Illinois' 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 19 Democratic primary)
- Illinois' 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 19 Republican primary)
Candidates and election results
General election
The candidate list in this election may not be complete.
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Incumbent Robin Kelly and Ashley Ramos are running in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
Robin Kelly (D) | ||
Ashley Ramos (R) |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Incumbent Robin Kelly advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Robin Kelly | 100.0 | 53,894 |
Total votes: 53,894 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Curry (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Ashley Ramos advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Ashley Ramos | 100.0 | 18,762 |
Total votes: 18,762 | ||||
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Candidate profiles
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Illinois
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Campaign finance
Name | Party | Receipts* | Disbursements** | Cash on hand | Date |
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Robin Kelly | Democratic Party | $1,149,170 | $937,652 | $1,658,683 | As of March 31, 2024 |
Ashley Ramos | Republican Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." |
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from three outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, and Sabato's Crystal Ball. 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.[3]
- 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.[4][5][6]
Race ratings: Illinois' 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 | |||||||||
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Race tracker | Race ratings | ||||||||
April 23, 2024 | April 16, 2024 | April 9, 2024 | April 2, 2024 | ||||||
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | |||||
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | Solid Democratic | |||||
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | Safe Democratic | |||||
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week. |
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 | ||||||
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State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
Illinois | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | 400 | N/A | 12/4/2023 | Source |
Illinois | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 5,000 | N/A | 6/24/2024 | Source |
District analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.
- District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
Below is the district map in place for this election. Click the map below to enlarge it.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Illinois.
Illinois U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
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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.Partisan Voter Index
Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district is . This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were the national average. This made Illinois' 2nd the district nationally.[7]
2020 presidential election results
The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.
2020 presidential results in Illinois' 2nd based on 2024 district lines | ||||
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Joe Biden | Donald Trump | |||
69.3% | 29.3% |
Inside Elections Baselines
- See also: Inside Elections
Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.[8] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.
Inside Elections Baseline for 2024 | ||||
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Democratic Baseline | Republican Baseline | Difference | ||
68.3 | 28.7 | D+39.6 |
Presidential voting history
- See also: Presidential election in Illinois, 2020
Illinois presidential election results (1900-2020)
- 16 Democratic wins
- 15 Republican wins
Year | 1900 | 1904 | 1908 | 1912 | 1916 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1940 | 1944 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 |
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Winning Party | R | R | R | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Illinois' congressional delegation as of April 2024.
Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Illinois | |||
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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 April 2024.
State executive officials in Illinois, April 2024 | |
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Office | Officeholder |
Governor | J.B. Pritzker |
Lieutenant Governor | Juliana Stratton |
Secretary of State | Alexi Giannoulias |
Attorney General | Kwame Raoul |
State legislature
Illinois State Senate
Party | As of February 2024 | |
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Democratic Party | 40 | |
Republican Party | 19 | |
Other | 0 | |
Vacancies | 0 | |
Total | 59 |
Illinois House of Representatives
Party | As of February 2024 | |
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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 2024.
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 |
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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 |
District history
The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.
2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Incumbent Robin Kelly defeated Thomas Lynch in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Robin Kelly (D) | 65.0 | 127,650 | |
Thomas Lynch (R) | 35.0 | 68,761 |
Total votes: 196,411 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Incumbent Robin Kelly advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Robin Kelly | 100.0 | 56,606 |
Total votes: 56,606 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Toni Brown (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Thomas Lynch defeated Shane Cultra and Ashley Ramos in the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Thomas Lynch | 37.2 | 10,289 | |
Shane Cultra | 35.7 | 9,869 | ||
Ashley Ramos | 27.2 | 7,524 |
Total votes: 27,682 | ||||
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2020
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Incumbent Robin Kelly defeated Theresa Raborn in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Robin Kelly (D) | 78.8 | 234,896 | |
Theresa Raborn (R) | 21.2 | 63,142 |
Total votes: 298,038 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Incumbent Robin Kelly defeated Marcus Lewis in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Robin Kelly | 84.8 | 94,767 | |
Marcus Lewis | 15.2 | 16,942 |
Total votes: 111,709 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Morrow (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Theresa Raborn advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Theresa Raborn | 100.0 | 12,181 |
Total votes: 12,181 | ||||
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Incumbent Robin Kelly defeated David Merkle in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Robin Kelly (D) | 80.7 | 183,816 | |
David Merkle (R) | 19.3 | 43,875 |
Total votes: 227,691 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2
Incumbent Robin Kelly defeated Marcus Lewis in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Robin Kelly | 82.1 | 80,659 | |
Marcus Lewis | 17.9 | 17,640 |
Total votes: 98,299 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2
David Merkle defeated Patrick Harmon and John Morrow in the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 2 on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | David Merkle | 36.6 | 4,963 | |
Patrick Harmon | 35.5 | 4,810 | ||
John Morrow | 27.9 | 3,790 |
Total votes: 13,563 | ||||
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See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ A majority in the U.S. House when there are no vacancies is 218 seats.
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
- ↑ Inside Elections, "Methodology: Inside Elections’ Baseline by Congressional District," December 8, 2023
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