Prairie State Wire

Democrats widened their control of the Illinois House of Representatives to at least 71 seats in a midterm election that saw voter turnout outpace 2014 totals, according to a Prairie State Wire analysis of voter tallies.

Democrats were headed toward victories in 32 of 64 contested House seats Tuesday night, while Republican candidates also led in 32 districts.

Democratic candidate victories gave the party an advantage of 61 percent to 39 percent in the House, which is more than the three-fifths majority it takes to override a governor's veto.

Currently, 67 of the House members are Democrats, compared to 51 Republicans. All House districts were on Tuesday's state ballot, but in more than 50 of them, only one major-party candidate was running.

The number of votes cast for House candidates Tuesday night was 2,679,583 compared to 1,875,788 during the last midterm election in 2014, an increase of 43 percent.

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Results from competitive Illinois House districts

District	Democrat	Votes	%	Republican	Votes	%	% of votes counted	Total Votes 2018	Total Votes 2014
15	John C. D'Amico*	19,256	62	Amanda Biela	12,041	38	91	31,297	26,400
17	Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz	29,230	68	Peter Lee	13,675	32	90	42,905	37,343
18	Robyn Gabel*	30,762	71	Julie Cho	12,565	29	88	43,327	28,256
19	Robert Martwick*	20,379	60	Ammie Kessem	13,398	40	100	33,777	18,567
35	Frances Ann Hurley*	28,348	68	Herbert Hebein	13,092	32	97	41,440	38,132
37	Matthew J. Hunt	19,177	42	Margo McDermed*	26,822	58	100	45,999	37,965
41	Val Montgomery	21,761	48	Grant Werhli*	24,034	52	100	45,795	36,137
42	Kathleen Carrier	22,930	47	Amy Grant	25,762	53	100	48,692	31,643
43	Anna Moeller*	13,771	70	Andrew Cuming	5,836	30	98	19,607	14,594
44	Fred Crespo*	15,549	65	Katy Dolan Baumer	8,205	35	89	23,754	19,581
45	Diane Pappas	19,144	50	Christine Winger*	18,924	50	100	38,068	32,001
46	Deborah Conroy*	17,834	58	Gordon Kinzler	12,833	42	100	30,667	24,316
47	Jim Caffrey	23,527	48	Deanne Mazzochi*	25,727	52	100	49,254	33,460
48	Terra Costa Howard	25,483	53	Peter Breen*	22,724	47	100	48,207	28,711
49	Karina Villa	21,398	53	Tonia Khouri	18,645	47	100	40,043	24,482
50	James Leslie	19,631	44	Keith Wheeler*	24,551	56	100	44,182	34,267
51	Mary Edly-Allen	25,105	50	Helene Walsh*	25,106	50	100	50,211	33,896
53	Mark Walker	21,377	52	Eddie Corrigan	19,697	48	92	41,074	27,097
54	Maggie Trevor	20,365	49	Thomas R. Morrison*	207,890	51	96	228,255	33,333
55	Marty Moylan*	19,307	55	Marilyn Smolenski	15,637	45	97	34,944	28,856
56	Michelle Mussman*	18,634	58	Jillian Bernas	13,658	42	92	32,292	27,997
58	Bob Morgan	29,104	64	Fredric Lesser	16,582	36	100	45,686	37,147
59	Daniel Didech	21,215	61	Karen Feldman	13,503	39	98	34,718	27,707
61	Joyce Mason	19,491	51	Sheri Jesiel*	18,375	49	100	37,866	30,517
62	Sam Yingling*	19,147	56	Ken Idstein	14,810	44	100	33,957	26,699
64	Trisha Zubert	16,294	42	Tom Weber	22,276	58	100	38,570	33,464
65	Richard Johnson	22,883	48	Dan Ugaste	25,205	52	100	48,088	29,808
68	Jake Castanza	18,106	47	John M. Cabello*	20,146	53	10	38,252	27,855
69	Angelique Bodine	15,406	39	Joe Sosnowski*	23,866	61	100	39,272	28,792
70	Paul Stoddard	18,765	48	Jeff Keicher*	20,221	52	100	38,986	25,556
71	Joan Padilla	16,736	41	Tony McCombie*	23,810	59	100	40,546	34,780
72	Michael Halpin*	21,901	62	Glen Evans Sr.	13,422	38	100	35,323	24,331
76	Lance Yednock	21,095	55	Jerry Long*	17,259	45	100	38,354	34,481
77	Kathleen Willis*	14,991	70	Anthony Airdo	6,322	30	100	21,313	12,488
79	Lisa Dugan	15,323	44	Lindsay Parkhurst*	19,632	56	100	34,955	32,602
81	Anne Stava-Murray	23,825	50	David Olsen*	23,500	50	100	47,325	37,987
82	Tom Chlystek	16,998	38	Jim Durkin*	27,829	62	98	44,827	32,968
84	Stephanie Kifowit*	20,342	66	Patty Smith	10,472	34	100	30,814	21,666
86	Lawrence Walsh Jr.*	20,759	70	Rick Laib	8,872	30	100	29,631	25,218
88	Jill Blair	18,271	41	Keith P. Sommer*	26,029	59	100	44,300	30,255
89	Nicholas Hyde	15,397	38	Andrew Chesney	25,170	62	99	40,567	29,928
90	Amy Davis	14,939	39	Tom Demmer*	23,628	61	99	38,567	28,668
91	Carolyn Blodgett	12,844	36	Michael Unes*	22,803	64	100	35,647	30,439
93	John Curtis	16,226	48	Norine Hammond*	17,812	52	100	34,038	25,994
94	Richard Cramsey	11,015	28	Randy Frese*	27,806	72	100	38,821	30,899
95	Dillon Clark	16,400	40	Avery Bourne*	24,479	60	100	40,879	29,177
96	Sue Scherer*	19,702	61	Herman Senor	12,807	39	100	32,509	27,447
97	Mica Freeman	21,356	49	Mark Batinick*	22,048	51	100	43,404	32,335
98	Natalie Manley*	23,832	64	Alyssia Benford	13,561	36	100	37,393	28,512
99	Marc Bell	21,501	41	Mike Murphy	30,809	59	100	52,310	37,596
101	Jennifer McMillin	14,278	30	Dan Caulkins	32,907	70	100	47,185	36,114
104	Cynthia Cunningham	15,245	44	Mike Marron*	19,201	56	100	34,446	26,069
105	Benjamin Webb	15,647	38	Dan Brady*	25,844	62	100	41,491	28,373
107	David Seiler	11,331	30	Blaine Wilhour	26,234	70	100	37,565	33,320
109	Cynthia Given	9,273	24	Darren Bailey	29,457	76	100	38,730	32,552
110	Shirley Bell	12,641	35	Chris Miller	23,884	65	100	36,525	26,693
111	Monica Bristow*	18,934	50	Michael Babcock	18,676	50	100	37,610	22,855
112	Katie Stuart*	24,493	55	Dwight D. Kay	20,081	45	100	44,574	32,317
113	Jay C. Hoffman*	21,594	64	Doug Jameson	12,388	36	91	33,982	29,513
114	LaToya Greenwood*	19,356	59	Jason Madlock	13,353	41	87	32,709	21,435
115	Marsha Griffin	16,701	41	Terri Bryant*	24,343	59	100	41,044	34,968
116	Jerry Costello*	21,837	54	David Friess	18,939	46	99	40,776	27,910
117	Jason Woolard	18,741	43	Dave Severin*	24,841	57	100	43,582	25,658
118	Natalie Phelps Finnie*	16,755	43	Patrick Windhorst	21,901	57	100	38,656	25,661
							Totals:	2,679,583	1,875,788
	*Incumbent