Federal candidate · 2019–2020 cycle · past cycle

Darin LaHood

Official portrait of Darin LaHood
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Illinois’s 16th district
Party
Republican
Hometown
Peoria, IL
Born
1968
In Congress
House since 2015 · 11 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
LAHOOD, DARIN MCKAY
Next election
General November 3, 2020 (Wikipedia, checked October 23, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Illinois with the current district highlighted

Illinois, District 16

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

RepublicanU.S. House · Illinois District 18IncumbentWon the general election (70.41%)

FEC candidate ID H6IL18088 · Principal campaign committee: LAHOOD FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Illinois District 16$4,205,602.32General-election nominee
2023–2024U.S. House · Illinois District 16$3,753,031.58Won the general election (99.9%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Illinois District 16$3,915,556.68Won the general election (66.3%)
2019–2020U.S. House · Illinois District 18$3,260,958.75Won the general election (70.41%)
Total raised$3,260,958.75
Total spent$1,761,973.31
Cash on hand$3,090,570.84
Debts owed by the campaign$0.00
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2019–2020 cycle totals through December 31, 2020, 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: $1,127,580.23PACs and other committees: $1,904,333.45Party committees: $1,800.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $226,641.13Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $603.94
  • Individual contributions$1,127,580.2335%
  • PACs and other committees$1,904,333.4558%
  • Party committees$1,800.000%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$226,641.137%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$603.940%

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

448 committees reported giving $1,902,435.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through December 29, 2024. 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 Darin McKay Lahood$204.03
  • Independent expenditures opposing Darin McKay Lahood$0.00

FEC totals for the 2020 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 18, 2020 · 2 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Darin McKay Lahood (R)$3,260,958.75$3,090,570.842020-12-31
Mark Haasis (D)$12,332.40$0.002020-01-02

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportSafe ROctober 21, 2020
  • Inside ElectionsSafe ROctober 16, 2020
  • Sabato's Crystal BallSafe ROctober 20, 2020
  • PoliticoSafe ROctober 11, 2020
  • Daily KosSafe ROctober 26, 2020
  • RCPSafe ROctober 28, 2020
  • NiskanenSafe RJune 7, 2020

Recent polls

No public polling found for this race.

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2020 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: LAHOOD 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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