Illinois

General election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · Printable ballot list

State facts

Population: 12,719,141 (2025 estimate; 12,821,741 in the 2020 Census)
Seats in the U.S. House: 17
State legislature: Senate: 59 members, 4-year terms
House of Representatives: 118 members, 2-year terms
Governor’s term: Four-year term, with no term limit.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 state population estimates; National Conference of State Legislatures. Checked October 19, 2026.

Who represents Illinois now

Governor: JB Pritzker · Democratic · since January 2019Seat on the Nov. 3 ballot
U.S. senators: Tammy Duckworth · Democratic · since 2017
Richard J. Durbin · Democratic · since 1997Seat on the Nov. 3 ballot
U.S. House members: 17 seats · Democratic: 14, Republican: 3

Sources: National Governors Association (party and start date: Wikidata); congress-legislators (current members of Congress). Checked October 19, 2026.

Voting in Illinois

From the state election office’s own website. Each answer shows the official wording it comes from.

Illinois residents can register to vote online.

Official wording: “Illinois' residents may register online, in person at the office of the election authority, at Driver's license facilities, with deputy registrars who are appointed in each jurisdiction, or via mail” — state election office, page read June 10, 2025

For anything not listed, and to check your registration, see Illinois’s election office: elections.il.gov

Federal18

Statewide6

Federal candidate lists come from FEC filings. A candidate is marked “on the ballot” once their campaign files a pre-general report or the state’s official candidate list confirms it; others filed for 2026 but may have lost a primary or withdrawn.