Who funds Illinois's 2026 candidates
- Candidates for state office
- 321
- November races
- 163
- Raised by their committees
- $242.9M
- Outside spending on them
- $3.1M
- Donors to 2+ candidates
- 2,724
Every candidate for Governor, the other statewide offices and the General Assembly in the March primary or the November election, and their committees' reports to the State Board of Elections since January 1, 2025. Data current as of October 12, 2026.
Every 2026 candidate for statewide office and the General Assembly: what their campaigns raised and from whom, what they spent it on, the large contributions that came in since their last report, and what outside groups spent for and against them, straight from the reports they filed with the State Board of Elections.
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- Raised: the itemized contributions (money, transfers from other committees, in-kind and other receipts) reported by the candidate's committees since January 1, 2025; contributions of $150 or less aren't itemized.
- Own money: contributions and loans in the candidate's own name.
- Spent: their committees' expenditures, including transfers to other committees.
- Cash on hand: what their committees reported having at the end of their latest quarterly report.
- Large since last report: contributions of $1,000 or more reported on A-1s since the committee's latest quarterly report.
- Outside for and against: independent expenditures other committees reported making for or against them.
- Home value: for candidates living in Cook, DuPage, Lake and Will counties, the assessor's estimate of the market value of the home at the address they filed with the State Board of Elections, shown only as a range (see how); the line marks the median home value in Illinois.
Only candidates with an amount appear; the scale is logarithmic so one large figure doesn't flatten everyone else.
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Most raised
| JB Pritzker Governor | $91,774,355 |
| Alexi Giannoulias Secretary of State | $22,013,831 |
| Emanuel "Chris" Welch State Representative District 7 | $19,594,478 |
| Don Harmon State Senator District 39 | $16,476,430 |
| Tony M McCombie State Representative District 89 | $3,387,697 |
| John Curran State Senator District 41 | $3,311,639 |
| Nabeela Syed State Senator District 26 | $3,157,557 |
| Rick Heidner Governor | $2,807,910 |
Most cash on hand
| Alexi Giannoulias Secretary of State | $21,849,062 |
| Don Harmon State Senator District 39 | $19,917,425 |
| Emanuel "Chris" Welch State Representative District 7 | $11,440,633 |
| JB Pritzker Governor | $3,141,018 |
| John Curran State Senator District 41 | $3,059,627 |
| Jay Hoffman State Representative District 113 | $1,860,304 |
| Michael W Frerichs Treasurer | $1,741,569 |
| Kwame Raoul Attorney General | $1,720,908 |
Their own money
| JB Pritzker Governor | $90,500,000 |
| Rick Heidner Governor | $2,130,939 |
| Liz Bishop State Representative District 76 | $591,630 |
| Collin Corbett Governor | $500,000 |
| Ted Dabrowski Governor | $250,100 |
| Ahmed Karrar State Senator District 14 | $107,623 |
Data current as of October 12, 2026 · latest report received October 14, 2026. From the State Board of Elections' data files; we refresh them by hand, so new reports can take a while to appear here.