page_title: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois
section_title: District 6
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois / District 6
caption_attribution_description: Peter Roskam, U.S. Congressman.
context_page_description: Elections were held on November 2, 2010, to determine Illinois's 19 members of the United States House of Representatives. Representatives were elected for two-year terms to serve in the 112th United States Congress from January 3, 2011, until January 3, 2013. Primary elections were held on February 2, 2010.
  Of the 19 elections, the 10th, 11th, 14th and 17th districts were rated as competitive by CQ Politics and The Rothenberg Political Report; while the 8th, 10th, 11th, 14th and 17th districts were rated as competitive by The Cook Political Report and Sabato's Crystal Ball. Of Illinois's nineteen U.S. Representatives, fourteen were re-elected. Republican Mark Kirk of the 10th district did not seek re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate, while Democrats Melissa Bean of the 8th district, Debbie Halvorson of the 11th district, Bill Foster of the 14th district and Phil Hare of the 17th district were defeated in the general election.
  In total, eleven Republicans and eight Democrats were elected.
context_section_description: The 6th district included Addison, Carol Stream, Lombard and parts of Elmhurst, Streamwood and Wheaton. The district's population was 68 percent white, 17 percent Hispanic and 10 percent Asian (see Race and ethnicity in the United States Census); 89 percent were high school graduates and 36 percent had received a bachelor's degree or higher. Its median income was $71,058. In the 2008 presidential election the district gave 56 percent of its vote to Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama and 43 percent to Republican Party nominee John McCain.
  Republican Peter Roskam, who took office in 2007, was the incumbent. Roskam was re-elected in 2008 with 58 percent of the vote. In 2010 Roskam's opponent in the general election was Democratic nominee Ben Lowe, a local organizer and environmentalist. Roskam and Lowe were unopposed in their respective primaries.
  Roskam raised $2,381,858 and spent $1,251,223. Lowe raised $66,632 and spent $63,300. Prior to the election FiveThirtyEight's forecast gave Roskam a 100 percent chance of winning and projected that he would receive 63 percent of the vote to Lowe's 35 percent. On election day Roskam was re-elected with 64 percent of the vote to Lowe's 36 percent. Roskam was again re-elected in 2012, 2014, and 2016, and unsuccessfully sought re-election in 2018. He was succeeded by Democrat Sean Casten.
caption: Peter Roskam, who was re-elected as the U.S. Representative for the 6th district
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