Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2012

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November 6, 2012 (2012-11-06)

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All 118 seats in the Illinois House of Representatives

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Michael Madigan	Tom Cross
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader's seat	22nd-Chicago	84th-Oswego
Last election	64	54
Seats won	71	47
Seat change	7	7
Popular vote	2,294,402	2,137,826
Percentage	51.35%	47.85%
Swing	0.73%	0.16%

Speaker before election

Michael Madigan
Democratic

Speaker-Elect

Michael Madigan
Democratic

The 2012 Elections for the Illinois House of Representatives was conducted on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. State Representatives are elected for two-year terms, with the entire House of Representatives up for a vote every two years. The share of votes remained very similar from the last election, but the Democrats were able to win back several seats, due in part to their near complete control of the state's redistricting process after the 2010 census, allowing them to win 3/5 of the seats in the House of Representatives (a supermajority in Illinois).

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