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← Rundown2026 Illinois Senate race

2026 election · U.S. Senate

2026 Illinois Senate race

Incumbent: Richard J. Durbin (Democrat)

Richard J. DurbinRichard J. DurbinDemocrat
ADAdam DelgadoDEMOCRATIC PARTY
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Declared candidates

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  • Richard J. Durbin
    Richard J. Durbin

    Democrat · Incumbent

    Stated positions (12) ▾
    • Border Security Legislation: Supported a bipartisan national security supplemental package while criticizing the exclusion of protections for Dreamers from border security provisions. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports comprehensive bipartisan immigration reform and immediate border security assistance while opposing mass deportation and harsh enforcement proposals. [1][2]

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  • China & trade: Supports comprehensive legislation with investments to confront China and enhance U.S. competitiveness. [1]
  • Criminal Justice Reform: Co-authored the bipartisan First Step Act, reducing sentences for nonviolent drug crimes and investing in recidivism-prevention programs. [1]
  • Election integrity: mail ballots: Opposes restrictions on mail-in voting and efforts to limit ballot access. [1]
  • Health Care: Supports defending and expanding the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, and allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. [1]
  • Health care: Supports protecting Medicaid, ACA, and Medicare coverage and opposes cuts that would cause millions to lose insurance. [1][2]
  • Immigration Reform: Supports comprehensive immigration reform, a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and protections for Dreamers, while opposing mass deportation policies. [1][2][3]
  • Immigration and the Economy: Advocates significantly increasing legal immigration levels to address labor shortages and ease inflationary pressures on the U.S. economy. [1]
  • National Security and Immigration Enforcement: Called for improved coordination between intelligence and immigration agencies, including better visa tracking, to strengthen national security. [1]
  • Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting and strengthening Social Security to prevent benefit cuts. [1]
  • Women's sports: Opposes legislation restricting transgender girls from participating in women's and girls' sports teams. [1]
  • AD
    Adam Delgado

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (13) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports enforcing controlled immigration policies and reforming the current immigration system. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports reducing the national debt and addressing uncontrolled state and local debt. [1][2][3]
    • Government Accountability: Supports stronger government accountability including mandatory polygraph tests for top officials and Supreme Court ethics reforms. [1]
    • Government accountability: Supports stronger government accountability including ethics reforms and whistleblower protections. [1]
    • Immigration: Supports enforcing controlled immigration policies. [1]
    • Medicare Portability: Supports Medicare portability. [1]
    • National Debt: Supports reducing the national debt. [1][2]
    • Pensions: Supports getting Illinois and Chicago pension systems under control. [1]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from federal budget cuts. [1][2]
    • Social Security and Medicare: Supports preserving Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from federal budget cuts. [1]
    • Veterans Benefits: Supports protecting veterans’ benefits and VA benefits. [1][2]
    • Veterans benefits: Supports protecting veterans’ benefits and VA benefits. [1][2]
    • Whistleblowers: Supports safeguarding whistleblowers. [1]
  • AB
    Awisi Bustos

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (12) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Opposes militarization of ICE and calls for adherence to constitutional rights and due process. [1][2]
    • Disability rights: Supports protecting and codifying federal disability rights laws against dismantling. [1]
    • Economic development: Supports investment in downstate economic development and farming infrastructure. [1]
    • Economy: Supports ending tariffs to reduce grocery prices and supply chain costs. [1]
    • Education: Supports raising teacher pay and investing in educator training. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports enforcing strong, sensible gun laws and community-based safety programs. [1]
    • Health care: Supports cutting prescription drug prices and protecting access to affordable care. [1]
    • Housing costs: Supports making housing less expensive in both construction and purchases. [1]
    • Infrastructure / Transportation: Supports delivering universal broadband access. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports AI regulation that balances innovation with safety and rights protections. [1][2]
    • Social services: Supports investing in youth, families, and neighborhoods to address poverty and violence. [1]
    • Transparent government: Supports real-time spending transparency tools and federal ethics reforms. [1]
  • BM
    Bryan Maxwell

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (10) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports abolishing ICE, with local enforcement for crime and pathways to work visas without citizenship. [1][2][3]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports term limits so members do not serve longer than 18 years in Congress. [1]
    • Economy: Supports direct payments to lower-income Americans and renewing the child tax credit. [1][2][3]
    • Eliminating the filibuster: Supports eliminating the filibuster to allow Congress to pass meaningful legislation. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports investment in clean energy and sustainable technologies from wastewater. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports reducing military spending to redirect funds to domestic needs like housing and energy. [1][2][3]
    • Health care: Supports Medicare for All with gradual transition, leaving private insurance unsubsidized by government. [1][2][3]
    • Housing costs: Supports investing in affordable housing by redirecting military funds. [1][2][3]
    • Israel: Opposes US military aid to Israel. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports new wealth taxes on the 1% and taxing billionaires to fund programs. [1][2][3]
  • CM
    Casimer Mr. Chlebek

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (6) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports immigration reform via overseas recruitment centers for needed jobs, ensuring shared values, along with law and order and no open borders. [1][2]
    • DEI programs: Opposes cultural Marxism, woke ideology, CRT, and DEI programs. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports curtailing uncontrolled government spending and unlimited borrowing to reduce inflation and prices. [1]
    • Health care: Supports providing free prescription drugs for seniors, disabled citizens, and veterans. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports abolishing property taxes, Social Security taxes, taxes on retirement income, federal taxes for those under 23 (or 26 for students), and offering a five-year tax holiday for new small businesses. [1][2]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports stopping all wars, including U.S. involvement in Ukraine. [1]
  • CA
    Christopher Alexander Swann

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (9) ▾
    • Disability rights: Supports fully funding and staffing OCR and OSERS with proactive enforcement and strengthening the ADA. [1]
    • Economy: Supports $25 federal minimum wage, mandatory corporate profit-sharing of 20% to workers and a federal jobs guarantee. [1][2]
    • Education: Supports massive federal investment in public schools with higher teacher pay, smaller classes and ending property tax funding. [1]
    • Gun policy: Opposes government representing weapons manufacturers funding genocide. [1]
    • Health care: Supports Medicare for All to provide automatic coverage from birth including emergency care, prescriptions, mental health, dental, vision and long-term care free at point of service. [1][2][3]
    • Housing costs: Supports community land trusts to stop Wall Street speculation and federal acquisition of land for community co-ops with permanent affordability. [1][2]
    • Immigration: Supports simple pathways to documentation and citizenship and abolishing ICE. [1]
    • Israel: Supports ending all military aid and weapons transfers to Israel and any government committing genocide or occupation. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports heavy taxation on billionaires and corporations to reduce inequality, fund programs and fight inflation without printing money. [1]
  • DT
    Don Tracy

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (9) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports the Hyde Amendment and opposes nationalizing abortion law. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports enforcement of immigration laws and opposes sanctuary cities that resist federal efforts. [1][2]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports congressional term limits of three House terms and two Senate terms. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Opposes defunding the police and supports holding criminals accountable. [1][2]
    • Energy production: Supports an all-of-the-above energy strategy to protect reliability and lower costs for families. [1][2][3]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports cutting waste, fraud and excessive government spending to rein in inflation. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports lowering health care costs and expenditures. [1][2][3]
    • Taxes: Supports lowering taxes to reduce the cost of living. [1]
    • Women's sports: Opposes boys playing in girls' sports. [1][2]
  • DB
    Douglas Bennett

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (6) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports securing borders, modernizing the visa system, E-Verify, and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants via a probationary period. [1][2]
    • Education: Supports restoring SALT and tuition deductions to address runaway college tuition costs and encourages businesses to offer student loan debt payment benefits. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports lowering health care and prescription drug costs through tort reform, competition, and allowing insurance sales across state lines. [1][2][3]
    • Housing: Supports reining in property taxes that burden homeowners and businesses and opposes raising Illinois income taxes. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports scaling back overly burdensome regulations to promote small business growth. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports restoring the SALT deduction, tuition deductions, and other provisions to reduce tax burdens on families and businesses. [1][2]
  • JE
    Jeannie Evans

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (9) ▾
    • AI transparency: Supports crafting legislation to increase AI transparency for greater choice, family protection, and safety. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports enforcing immigration laws and building cooperation between local, state, and federal levels. [1][2]
    • China & trade: Supports fighting back against China’s surveillance and strengthening protections for American families and businesses. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports law enforcement officers with tools and resources to make communities safer. [1][2]
    • Education: Supports investing in education, vocational training, and re-training programs for workers. [1][2][3]
    • Foreign policy: Supports President Trump’s interventions in Venezuela and Iran to advance American strategic interests. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports removing unreasonable regulations and red tape to help businesses thrive and create jobs. [1][2][3]
    • Taxes: Supports reducing the tax burden on workers and businesses to increase take-home pay and encourage expansion. [1][2][3]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports standing firm against Russian aggression in Ukraine to secure a good deal for Ukraine. [1]
  • JG
    John Goodman

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (5) ▾
    • Congressional term limits: Supports term limits to prevent career politicians from entrenching themselves and end cyclical corruption. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports law enforcement with adequate resources, practical reforms, and greater community oversight. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports cutting burdensome regulations to help small businesses recover, grow, and hire. [1]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Pledges to safeguard Social Security as a bedrock of support and refuses privatization. [1]
    • Veterans' Issues and Elder Care: Advocates for veterans accessing private doctors without delay and expanded PTSD and service dog programs. [1]
  • JD
    Jonathan Dean

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports comprehensive reform with pathway to citizenship, increased processing funding, border patrol, deporting violent criminals, and abolishing ICE. [1][2][3]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports two-term limits for senators and pledges to serve no more than two terms. [1][2]
    • Energy production: Supports building more solar and wind energy and re-establishing Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports public health insurance system with Medicare providing baseline coverage for all citizens. [1][2]
    • Housing costs: Supports eliminating red-tape regulations, offering grants for affordable housing, and barring corporate speculation on housing. [1]
    • Minimum wage: Supports raising the minimum wage to $26 per hour. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports eliminating red-tape regulations that hinder building affordable housing. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports higher marginal tax rates on the top 1% of earners and short-term tax relief for everyday expenses. [1][2]
  • Juliana Stratton
    Juliana Stratton

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (11) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports restoring the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [1]
    • Education: Supports expanding federal support for trades learning, early childhood programs, and public schools. [1][2]
    • Election integrity: voter ID: Supports passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports banning assault weapons. [1]
    • Health care: Supports securing Medicare for All and relieving medical debt. [1][2]
    • Housing costs: Supports tax incentives for affordable housing construction and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits. [1][2]
    • LGBTQ+ rights: Supports defending LGBTQ+ rights, including for transgender youth. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports not accepting corporate PAC money to prioritize middle-class families over special interests. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports a tax cut for the middle class paid for with a tax increase on those making more than a million dollars a year. [1][2]
    • Wages: Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour. [1][2]
  • KR
    Kevin Ryan

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports federal legislation protecting access to reproductive care in every state and territory, with decisions belonging to patients and providers. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports streamlining legal entry, easier citizenship paths for law-abiding workers, and a secure border process. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports focusing prisons on rehabilitation rather than punishment and abolishing the death penalty. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports the Green New Deal to invest in renewable energies while ensuring adequate supply before closing coal plants to avoid price spikes. [1][2]
    • Government reform: Supports amending the Constitution to impose campaign spending limits and eliminate Super PAC spending to remove money's influence from politics. [1][2][3]
    • Health care: Supports Medicare for All and single-payer healthcare as a human right, citing the VA as a model that works. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports restructuring tax policy to place the burden on the wealthy and corporations. [1]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports continued U.S. military aid to Ukraine in its fight for national survival. [1]
  • PL
    Pamela Long

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (12) ▾
    • Abortion: Pro-life; supports legal protection for human life from conception. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports zero illegal immigration, mass deportations, and no amnesty. [1][2]
    • Disability rights: Supports protecting and enforcing current federal disability rights laws as non-negotiable civil rights. [1]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports a balanced budget, no new spending or taxes, and shrinking government redundancies. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports expanding HSAs and MSAs, refining the ACA for more choice and competition, and pay-for-performance models. [1][2][3]
    • Medical gender transition for minors: Opposes legislation allowing secret gender transitions for minor children without parental consent. [1]
    • Parents' rights in education: Supports parents serving as primary educators and making significant decisions for minor children. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports reducing regulations to boost small businesses and job creation. [1]
    • School choice: Supports school choice and fully funding public neighborhood schools. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports cutting personal income taxes and eliminating the inheritance tax. [1]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports restricting dollars to Ukraine and assessing foreign aid overall. [1]
    • Women's sports: Opposes males encroaching on private spaces and accolades of women and girls. [1]
  • RC
    R Cary Capparelli

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (12) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports stopping all illegal immigration and returning those who entered illegally, with a better citizenship path. [1]
    • China & trade: Supports monitoring adversaries including China and bringing jobs back from outsourcing. [1][2]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports congressional term limits of three House terms and two Senate terms. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports police to fight and eliminate rampant crime. [1]
    • Defense: Supports maintaining a strong military because a powerful defense is the best offense. [1][2]
    • Energy production: Supports affordable and accessible energy in all daily use forms. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports less government regulation to decrease debt. [1][2]
    • Fentanyl & drug enforcement: Supports continuing the war on drugs. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports making healthcare available and affordable, including slashing drug prices and increasing transparency. [1][2]
    • Infrastructure: Supports federal assistance including infrastructure development to regain industrial prominence. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports reducing and simplifying income tax to make essentials more affordable. [1][2]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports sanctions against Russia and diplomatic means for Ukraine, not a U.S. military role. [1]
  • Robin Kelly
    Robin Kelly

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (19) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports access to safe, legal abortion without restrictions and opposes limitations on services. [1][2]
    • Agriculture: Supports the rural agricultural sector including farms producing corn, soybeans and wheat. [1]
    • Budget & Economy: Supported COVID-19 relief packages including the $900 billion relief bill and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Holds a tough-on-crime stance while supporting police accountability measures. [1]
    • Drugs: Holds a pro-drug-reform stance. [1]
    • Education: Supports making two years of community college free and canceling college loans after 10 years. [1]
    • Energy and Environment: States that climate change poses a crisis affecting Illinois and supports action to address changing weather and natural disasters. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports clean, sustainable energy sources to address the climate crisis. [1]
    • Gun policy: Works to address the gun violence epidemic affecting communities in Illinois. [1]
    • Health Care: Supports establishing Medicare for All and strengthening Social Security. [1]
    • Health care: Supports expanding access to affordable, high-quality health care including Medicare expansion. [1][2][3]
    • Housing costs: Supports providing housing people can afford as part of affordability efforts. [1][2]
    • Immigration: Supports the American Dream and Promise Act and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, including DACA recipients, and opposes restrictive Trump administration immigration proposals. [1][2]
    • Immigration Enforcement/ICE: Criticizes ICE detentions and deportation quotas in Chicago as cruel and defends the right to peacefully protest against ICE actions. [1]
    • Israel: States that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. [1]
    • Minimum Wage/Labor: Supports raising the federal minimum wage to at least $17 per hour by 2030. [1]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Supports strengthening Social Security and expanding Medicare benefits. [1]
    • Taxation: Supports imposing a minimum tax on individuals with net worth exceeding $100 million as part of a 'Tax the Billionaires' policy. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports a minimum tax on individuals with net worth exceeding $10 million or $100 million. [1][2]
  • SK
    S Krishnamoorthi

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (14) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports a woman's right to choose and pro-choice legislation. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports pairing secure borders with a real pathway to citizenship. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports reforms to ICE including banning masks for agents and greater accountability. [1]
    • Growing Our Economy & Creating Jobs: Supports prioritizing small businesses and investing in transportation infrastructure to grow the economy and create jobs. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports common-sense gun laws including expanded background checks, reinstating the assault weapons ban, and funding gun research. [1]
    • Health care: Supports extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to prevent premium increases. [1][2]
    • Honoring Our Commitment To Our Veterans: Supports ensuring veterans receive the benefits they have earned. [1]
    • Protecting Our Environment & Growing The Green Economy: Supports protecting the environment and natural resources while supporting the green economy as a moral and economic imperative. [1]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Opposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare and supports protecting these programs for seniors. [1]
    • Standing Up For Working Families: Supports policies to expand and grow the middle class in a 21st-century economy. [1]
    • Strengthening Education At Every Level: Supports investing in K-12 education and expanding access to affordable college, career, technical, vocational education, and apprenticeships. [1]
    • Supporting Women: Supports guaranteeing that all women are treated fairly. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports tax increases on higher brackets to balance the budget. [1]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports providing assistance to Ukraine to defend itself while insisting on accountability and a diplomatic path to end the conflict. [1]
  • SB
    Steve Botsford

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (12) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports protecting Roe v. Wade. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports clear border enforcement focused on security threats combined with expanding lawful pathways to work and reducing backlogs. [1]
    • Congressional stock trading: Supports banning stock trading in Congress. [1]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports term limits of two terms in the Senate and seven terms in the House. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Supports strengthening federal programs to combat trafficking and funding local police for homicide investigation units. [1]
    • Education: Supports funding trade schools partnered with employers in advanced manufacturing and green tech. [1]
    • Election integrity: voter ID: Supports eliminating the filibuster so majorities can govern without minority obstruction. [1]
    • Health care: Supports lowering health care costs by expanding medical school and residency slots, enforcing hospital price transparency, and benchmarking drug prices to peer countries. [1][2][3]
    • Housing costs: Supports lowering housing costs by tying federal housing and infrastructure dollars to zoning and permitting reform and allowing more multifamily and modular housing. [1][2]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports pre-permitting select DOE sites for nuclear and biotech facilities to shorten build times. [1]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Supports protecting Social Security and Medicare. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports raising the minimum wage and banning non-compete agreements. [1]
  • SJ
    Steven J Schwartzberg

    Party n/a

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (4) ▾
    • Freedom Budget to Abolish Poverty: Supports a 21st century version of A. Philip Randolph’s Freedom Budget to abolish poverty for all Americans, including universal basic income. [1][2][3]
    • Health care: Supports Abundant Care for All, an improved Medicare for All emphasizing home health, proximal health, and wellness. [1][2][3]
    • Israel: Favors cutting off all military aid to Israel as long as it is committing genocide in Gaza. [1]
    • Justice for the Native Nations: Supports justice for Native Nations by overturning Federal Indian Law and confronting colonial assumptions in U.S. jurisprudence. [1][2][3]
  • WM
    Whitfield Mr Jr Harrington

    INDEPENDENT

    FEC filing ↗
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