Understand Your Illinois Congress Candidate 2014

By Lila Bryant


Illinois is among the states of the US that will vote this year. Everything possible has been done at this time; candidates have successfully gone through the preliminary elections, and all citizens know their Illinois congress candidate 2014. The Illinois primary elections took place on 18/3/2014, and every party elected representatives for the general elections in November.

Elections for the senatorial position are scheduled for 4/11/2014. This race will bring on the last senator of Illinois, Dick Durbin against Jim Oberweis who will be representing the Republicans. Durbin was uncontested in his party primary elections while Jim won his convincingly.

In all the eighteen congressional districts, a candidate was elected to represent his/her respective party. This article looks at individual candidates and how they fared on in the primary elections. It also tries to analyze the candidates in terms of their history, and probability of winning or losing.

In district number one; Rush Bobby will represent the Democrats against Jimmie Tillman. In the second district, Wallace Eric will represent the Republicans during the general elections against Kelly Robin who is an incumbent Democrat. Rayburn Charles and Marcus Lewis both lost their candidacy.

The third district will field Sharon Brannigan who defeated Diane Harris, the then aspiring representative of the eleventh District of this state in 2012, and Daniel Lipinski in November during the general elections. Sharon got 62.6% of the total number of votes cast beating Harris by a margin of 24.8% of the total number of votes.

The forth district will witness a tough battle between Hector Concepcion, a Republican, and Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat. Hector was removed from the ballot in 2012, and is back to make appeals this year. Incumbent, Gutierrez on the other hand, is seeking to defend his post after defeating fellow democrats, Alexandra Eidenberg and Jorge Zavala in their party primary held in March.

In district number five, Republicans will have no representation in this general election. Michael Quigley and Wade Nancy are the only candidates in this contest. In district six, incumbent Republican Peter Roskam is expected to meet Michael Mason of the Democratic Party in what is presumably the fiercest in these elections. In the seventh one, Robert Bumpers will battle out with Danny Davis from the Democratic Party. Dan Roche made a decision to withdraw from this contest several days to the primary elections.

Lawrence Kaifesh will contest against Tammy Duckworth in district eight as Susanne Atanus battles with incumbent Schakowsky Janice in district number nine. Democrat Brad Schneider will meet in a tough test against Robert Dold district number ten. The candidacy of Arlene Hickory was withdrawn.

District number eleven will host the fight between Darlene Senger and Bill Foster. Darlene beat three other contenders after another one withdrew from the race. Foster went unopposed. The twelfth district will field three contenders for the position; Republican Mike Bost, William Enyart and Paula Bradshaw. The thirteenth one will also have three candidates: Rodney Davis, Ann Callis and Josh Dill.

The race to the fourteenth district title is made up of incumbent Randy Hultgren and Anderson Dennis as the only pair of candidates during the general election. The fifteenth congressional position involves two competitors: Eric Thorsland and John Shimkus. Similarly, the sixteenth one brings together Randal Olsen and Adam Kinzinger in a fierce contest. The seventeenth district is an affair between Cheri Bustos and Bobby Schilling of the Democratic and Republican Parties respectively. The eighteenth position will experience a serious battle between Darrel Miller and Aaron Schlock.




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