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The 2006 congressional elections in Illinois were held November 7, 2006, to determine who would represent the State of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives. Illinois had nineteen seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States census .
Illinois is divided into 17 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. The majority of Illinois' districts are located in the Chicago area. The Illinois General Assembly has the primary responsibility of redrawing congressional district lines following each decennial census.
The 2006 Illinois elections were held on November 7, 2006. On that date, registered voters in the State of Illinois elected officeholders for U.S. Congress , to six statewide offices ( Governor / Lieutenant Governor , Attorney General , Secretary of States , Treasurer and Comptroller ), as well as to the Illinois Senate and Illinois House .
The Illinois House of Representatives elections of 2006 determined the membership of the lower house of the 95th General Assembly. The Democratic Party increased its ...
The 2006 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 7, 2006, to elect members to the United States House of Representatives. It took place in the middle of President George W. Bush's second term in office. All 435 seats of the House were up for election.
Third parties received largely mixed results in the 2006 elections. In the Maine House of Representatives, Green State Representative John Eder was narrowly defeated by Democratic rival Jon Hinck in a bitterly contested campaign over Portland's 118th District. Eder's loss deprived the U.S. Green movement's highest elected position in any state ...
Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms. Before becoming a state, the Illinois Territory elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1812 to 1818. These are tables of congressional delegations from Illinois to the United States Senate and the United States House of ...
Joseph Gurney Cannon, who also served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives during four congresses and after whom the Cannon House Office Building is named, represented the district early in his career (1873–83), although he was representing the 18th district when he was speaker from 1903 to 1911.