Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2016

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November 8, 2016 (2016-11-08)

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All 118 seats in the Illinois House of Representatives

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Michael Madigan	Jim Durkin
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader's seat	22nd-Chicago	82nd-Western Springs
Last election	71	47
Seats won	67	51
Seat change	4	4
Popular vote	2,604,236	2,222,482
Percentage	50.49%	45.97%
Swing	3.38%	3.36%

Speaker before election

Michael Madigan
Democratic

Speaker-Elect

Michael Madigan
Democratic

The 2016 Elections for the Illinois House of Representatives were conducted on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. State Representatives are elected for two-year terms, with the entire House of Representatives elected every two years. The Democratic party lost a net of four seats and thus its three-fifths supermajority in the chamber. Republicans picked up five seats in the 63rd (McHenry County), 71st ( Sterling), 76th (LaSalle), 79th (Kankakee), and 117th (Marion) districts, whilst the Democrats won the previously Republican held 112th district (Edwardsville/Collinsville)

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