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HOUSE RACE

Illinois 13th District


Where this race stands

Published ratings for Illinois 13th District, one row per rater
Rater Rating Added
Cook Political Report Solid D
Sabato's Crystal Ball Not available: Not in the source we read for this rater.
Split Ticket Not available: Not in the source we read for this rater.
FiftyPlusOne Not available: Not in the source we read for this rater.
Thin Gold model Safe D · more than 19 in 20 chance for Democrats

Our model's lean sits inside the range of the raters covering this race.

Model output from our win-odds simulation, under calibration review. Methodology

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On the November ballot

We do not carry Illinois's certified primary result.

Illinois State Board of Elections publishes the certified primary result on its official results page and its candidate page.

Illinois's election site asks automated programs to stay out, and we respect that.

Illinois held its primary on March 17, 2026.

What we know

  • Per Wikipedia, Nikki Budzinski won the Democratic primary. As of October 16, 2026 · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cross-checked against FEC filings · Not state-certified
  • Per Wikipedia, Jeff Wilson won the Republican primary. As of October 16, 2026 · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cross-checked against FEC filings · Not state-certified

Illinois's 13th congressional district carries a partisan baseline of D+12.12, and Cook Political Report rates the race Solid D (Added 2026-08-25); cookpolitical.com carries the most current ratings and analysis. At that margin, the district leans well to the Democratic side, and the Solid D classification reflects a race that forecasters do not presently regard as competitive.

Campaign finance · FEC

Democratic

Raised
$3M
Cash on hand
$2.6M

Campaign finance · FEC

Republican

Raised
$334.5K
Cash on hand
$39.3K

Federal Election Commission filings, as of Jun 30, 2026.

District demographics · Census ACS


Median household income
$63,106 (±$952)
Median gross rent, monthly
$999 (±$10)
People below the poverty line
17.5% (±0.6%)
People without health insurance
5.1% (±0.2%)
Renter households paying 30% or more of income on rent
49.5% (±1.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2020-2024 , 119th Congress district lines (this district is unchanged for 2026); the survey window ends Dec 31, 2024. Survey estimates; the figure after ± is the 90% margin of error. The renter-burden share is derived by Thin Gold from two published Census percentages. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

Election information


Voter registration deadline
Not shown. The federal form states this deadline in words that are not a plain "N days before the election" rule, so we do not compute a date. We have not yet built a reader for this state's election office, so no state-published date is shown.
Early voting
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What is not on this page

  • Candidate issue positions are not shown. We list a position only when it is tied to a named, dated source.
  • No individual poll results are compiled for this race.
  • The previous result for this seat is not shown: we hold no certified results record for it yet.
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