Scope and limitations

What this Illinois guide covers

This guide covers all 6 statewide candidate contests and all 14 active printed choices or tickets in the official Illinois candidate list. It keeps state and federal campaign finance methods separate.

Included

Published now

14 active printed choices or tickets in all 6 statewide candidate contests
11 exact office-matching Illinois candidate committee D-2 quarterly reports
3 FEC U.S. Senate candidate summaries with candidate and committee identifiers
Regular and online registration, grace-period registration, early voting, vote by mail, and Election Day rules
An official Voters' Guide check showing no statewide public questions
An explicit court-scope note explaining that judicial items are district based
A separate write-in explanation reflecting local filing and the absence of a central statewide name list

Not included

Outside this release

Removed candidate records in the official General Election candidate list
Locally filed write-in names not published in one complete statewide source
U.S. House district contests and their FEC finance comparisons
General Assembly, Supreme Court district, Appellate Court district, circuit, subcircuit, county, municipal, school, and other local contests
Local referenda and address-specific ballot questions
Independent expenditures and outside spending beyond the selected candidate committee reports
Transaction-level donor and expenditure analysis
Business, lobbying, contract, land, and conflict-record research

Not yet published

District contests, local ballot styles, and itemized finance

Congressional, legislative, judicial district, county, municipal, school, local-question, and transaction-level finance expansion are not included in this statewide release.

Dataset comparison: Do not compare state datasets as if they use one method. Nevada includes itemized transactions. Alabama uses race-level portal summaries. Alaska uses APOC and FEC records. Arizona uses Spotlight summaries across a calendar-year filter. Arkansas uses candidate summaries for Election Year 2026. California uses CAL-ACCESS committee totals. Colorado uses TRACER and FEC summaries. Connecticut uses W4POLITICS sums of nonoverlapping SEEC30 report periods. Florida uses state All Dates Totals and FEC summaries. Georgia uses campaign-to-date fields from expanded PeachFile Candidate Profiles and FEC summaries. Hawaii uses Candidate Filing System Column B election-period totals from each committee's latest available report. Idaho uses Sunshine Combined Financial Totals with This Period and Election Cycle fields plus separate FEC summaries. Illinois uses one latest non-archived D-2 Quarterly Report per exact office-matching candidate committee plus separate FEC summaries.

Version record

Illinois guide 1.0

PublishedOctober 1, 2026

Contests shown6

Ballot choices14

Ballot measures0

6 statewide candidate contests, 14 active printed choices or tickets, 11 Illinois D-2 reports, 3 FEC summaries, voter deadlines, no statewide public questions, no statewide judicial contest, a local write-in caveat, and primary sources.

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Illinois guide publication record
Version	Published	Scope
1.0	October 1, 2026	6 statewide candidate contests, 14 active printed choices or tickets, 11 Illinois D-2 reports, 3 FEC summaries, voter deadlines, no statewide public questions, no statewide judicial contest, a local write-in caveat, and primary sources.

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