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U.S. House District 2

2022 general election. Election concluded.

Incumbents

No incumbent is running.

Challengers

Robin Kelly

Democratic 140414 votes (67.1%)

$1,746,109 raised $1,447,165 cash on hand FEC detail

Thomas Lynch

Republican 68761 votes (32.9%)

Campaign finance

Federal Election Commission filings for the 2022 two-year cycle. Candidates appear in the order they are listed on this page. They are not ranked by money, and these measures are never combined into a single score.

Every candidate below reports through Dec 31, 2022.

Reported campaign finance for each candidate with complete FEC data in the 2022 cycle
Candidate	Total receipts	Cash on hand	Direct PAC receipts	Outside spending supporting	Outside spending opposing
Robin Kelly Democratic	$1,746,109	$1,447,165	$1,063,050	$82,514	$0

Bars are not shown. Only Robin Kelly has complete FEC data for the 2022 cycle, so there is no same-scale comparison to draw. Every reported amount is in the table above.

Where each campaign's committee money came from

Each column is one candidate and each figure is that candidate's own money, taken over that candidate's own itemized total. Nothing here is added across candidates, and the two groupings below are never added to each other: the first is who the FEC says runs the giving committee, which covers every dollar, and the second is what interest a source says that committee advances, which is a claim MyRepTracker makes and covers only part of the money.

Contributions each campaign received, by who runs the committee

Contributions each campaign received for each compared candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs the giving committee
Category	Robin Kelly Democratic
Corporate PACs	$539,70049.8%
Labor union PACs	$162,35015.0%
Trade association PACs	$153,04414.1%
Membership organization PACs	$105,4509.7%
Non-connected committees	$99,2629.2%
Leadership PACs	$8,0000.7%
Other candidates' committees	$6,0000.6%
Corporations without capital stock	$6,0000.6%
Cooperative PACs	$5,0000.5%
Itemized total	$1,084,806

Contributions each campaign received, by interest advanced

Contributions each campaign received for each compared candidate, grouped by the interest the giving committee is categorized as advancing
Category	Robin Kelly Democratic
Pharmaceuticals Health	$150,00014.0%
Physicians and medical specialties Health	$105,5009.9%
Building trades unions Labor	$49,6004.6%
Health insurance Health	$39,5003.7%
Public sector unions Labor	$38,1003.6%
Telecommunications Communications and technology	$36,0003.4%
Agribusiness Agriculture	$35,5003.3%
Technology Communications and technology	$33,4003.1%
Food and beverage Agriculture	$32,0943.0%
Industrial unions Labor	$28,0002.6%
Transportation unions Labor	$27,0002.5%
Real estate Finance, insurance, and real estate	$26,5002.5%
Automotive Transportation	$25,0002.3%
Insurance Finance, insurance, and real estate	$23,5002.2%
Hospitals and nursing homes Health	$23,0002.1%
Commercial banking Finance, insurance, and real estate	$22,5002.1%
Securities and investment Finance, insurance, and real estate	$22,0002.1%
Renewable energy Energy and natural resources	$21,5002.0%
Electric utilities Energy and natural resources	$20,5001.9%
Lawyers and law firms Professional services	$13,5001.3%
Media and entertainment Communications and technology	$13,0001.2%
Air transport Transportation	$12,5001.2%
Construction Construction	$12,5001.2%
Oil and gas Energy and natural resources	$10,0000.9%
Defense Defense	$9,5000.9%
Trucking Transportation	$5,5000.5%
Credit unions Finance, insurance, and real estate	$5,0000.5%
Accounting Professional services	$4,5000.4%
Mining Energy and natural resources	$4,5000.4%
Nurses and nursing specialties Health	$3,5000.3%
Gun control Ideological and single-issue	$3,0000.3%
Committees not yet categorized	$214,61220.0%
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees	$14,000
Itemized total	$1,084,806

Independent spending supporting each candidate, by who runs the committee

Independent spending supporting each candidate for each compared candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs the giving committee
Category	Robin Kelly Democratic
Non-connected committees	$82,514100.0%
Itemized total	$82,514

Independent spending supporting each candidate, by interest advanced

Independent spending supporting each candidate for each compared candidate, grouped by the interest the giving committee is categorized as advancing
Category	Robin Kelly Democratic
Agribusiness Agriculture	$5,6266.8%
Committees not yet categorized	$76,88893.2%
Itemized total	$82,514

Last-minute contributions reported before an election

Within 48 hours of receiving a contribution or loan of $1,000 or more in the days just before an election, a campaign must notify the FEC. These notices are provisional: the same money appears again in the regular report covering those days, so it is not added to the amounts above and is not compared as a measure. Candidates file them only while their own election is close, so an absence here says nothing about a campaign's fundraising.

48-hour notices reported by candidates in this race
Candidate	Reported on notices	Notices	Covers	State
Robin Kelly Democratic	$141,500	5	Jun 14 to Nov 3, 2022	Covered by regular reports

Candidates not compared

These candidates are left out of the comparison rather than shown as zero, because a missing or partial record is not the same as no money.

Thomas Lynch (Republican): No FEC data is stored for cycle 2022.

Direct contributions are money the campaign received. Independent expenditures are spending by other organizations that is not coordinated with any campaign, and are never added to a candidate's receipts. Source: Federal Election Commission ↗.