Federal candidate · 2021–2022 cycle · past cycle

Sean Casten

Official portrait of Sean Casten
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Illinois’s 6th district
Party
Democrat
Hometown
Downers Grove, IL
Born
1971
In Congress
House since 2019 · 7 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
CASTEN, SEAN
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 6

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

DemocraticU.S. House · Illinois District 6IncumbentWon the general election (54.4%)

FEC candidate ID H8IL06139 · Principal campaign committee: CASTEN FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Illinois District 6$2,516,549.09General-election nominee
2023–2024U.S. House · Illinois District 6$3,128,625.05Won the general election (45.8%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Illinois District 6$5,577,460.28Won the general election (54.4%)
2019–2020U.S. House · Illinois District 6$5,706,347.83Won the general election (52.82%)
Total raised$5,577,460.28
Total spent$5,869,181.71
Cash on hand$54,416.17
Debts owed by the campaign$75,694.37
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: $4,405,254.47PACs and other committees: $1,131,362.13Party committees: $2,063.06Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $15,353.24Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $23,427.38
  • Individual contributions$4,405,254.4779%
  • PACs and other committees$1,131,362.1320%
  • Party committees$2,063.060%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$15,353.240%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$23,427.380%

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

319 committees reported giving $1,129,422.00 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 Sean Casten$206,601.14
  • Independent expenditures opposing Sean Casten$1,976,847.83
  • Company and union communications to members about Sean Casten$107,907.83

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 6, 2022 · 8 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Sean Casten (D)$5,577,460.28$54,416.172022-12-31
Marie Newman (D)$1,587,957.66$0.002022-12-31
Keith Pekau (R)$1,514,693.19$3,276.822022-12-31
Gary Grasso (R)$635,117.00$2,494.952022-12-31
Scott Richard Kaspar (R)$268,040.01$0.002022-12-31
Robert 'Rob' Cruz (R)$162,526.76$0.002022-07-23
Niki Conforti (R)$75,519.32$10.142022-12-31
Charles M Hughes (D)$9,550.28$12.392023-01-31

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportLean DNovember 1, 2022
  • Inside ElectionsLikely DFebruary 18, 2022
  • Sabato's Crystal BallLean DNovember 2, 2022
  • PoliticoLean DApril 5, 2022
  • Fox NewsLean DJuly 11, 2022
  • DDHQLikely DJuly 20, 2022
  • 538Lean DOctober 26, 2022
  • The EconomistLikely DSeptember 28, 2022

Recent polls

No public polling found for this race.

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: CASTEN 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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