Federal candidate · 2021–2022 cycle · past cycle

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Official portrait of Raja Krishnamoorthi
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Illinois’s 8th district
Party
Democrat
Hometown
Schaumburg, IL
Born
1973
In Congress
House since 2017 · 9 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
KRISHNAMOORTHI, S. RAJA
Next election
General November 8, 2022 (Wikipedia, checked October 23, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Illinois with the current district highlighted

Illinois, District 8

Biographical details from congress-legislators (CC0) and the House Clerk, retrieved October 23, 2026.

DemocraticU.S. House · Illinois District 8IncumbentWon the general election (56.9%)

FEC candidate ID H6IL08147 · Principal campaign committee: FRIENDS OF RAJA FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Illinois District 8$3,916,222.12Not running (declined to run)
2023–2024U.S. House · Illinois District 8$10,897,838.27Won the general election (42.9%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Illinois District 8$8,498,368.19Won the general election (56.9%)
2019–2020U.S. House · Illinois District 8$6,411,078.44Won the general election (73.16%)
Total raised$8,498,368.19
Total spent$5,739,545.67
Cash on hand$11,186,669.45
Debts owed by the campaign$0.00
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2021–2022 cycle totals through December 31, 2022, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $7,357,537.44PACs and other committees: $1,077,055.02Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans): $115.21Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $7,648.96Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $56,011.56
  • Individual contributions$7,357,537.4487%
  • PACs and other committees$1,077,055.0213%
  • Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans)$115.210%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$7,648.960%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$56,011.561%

Self-funding: $115.21 (0% of money raised): $115.21 given and $0.00 lent by the candidate.

Raised and spent over time

Report-by-report history is shown for the current cycle.

Committees

Assignments from unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

PAC and committee contributors

253 committees reported giving $1,026,216.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting S. Raja Krishnamoorthi$18.68
  • Independent expenditures opposing S. Raja Krishnamoorthi$6,170.58

FEC totals for the 2022 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

Illinois U.S. House, District 8, 2022 · 7 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
S. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D)$8,498,368.19$11,186,669.452022-12-31
Junaid Ahmed (D)$1,607,396.21$28,788.932022-12-31
Christopher Bryant Dargis (R)$545,818.55$2,859.372022-12-31
Peter Kopsaftis (R)$91,415.00$400.002022-12-31
Phillip Owen Wood (R)$41,636.18$2,840.262022-12-31
Mohammed Faheem (D)$12,973.11$2,688.722022-12-31
Chad Koppie (R)$11,416.80$14,511.602022-09-30

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportSolid DNovember 30, 2021
  • Inside ElectionsSolid DJanuary 28, 2022
  • Sabato's Crystal BallSafe DDecember 2, 2021
  • PoliticoLikely DApril 5, 2022
  • RCPLikely DJune 9, 2022
  • Fox NewsSolid DAugust 22, 2022
  • DDHQSolid DJuly 20, 2022
  • 538Solid DJune 30, 2022
  • The EconomistSafe DSeptember 28, 2022

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
RMG ResearchJuly 23–31, 2022400 (LV)± 4.9%Raja Krishnamoorthi 45% · Chris Dargis 39%

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois (retrieved October 23, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: FRIENDS OF RAJA FOR CONGRESS.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 23, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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