Peoria: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) — Illinois votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (open — Durbin retiring); U.S. Representative IL-17 (and IL-16, on the Peoria County ballot); Governor/Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket), Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer; Illinois House HD-92 (City Hall; Gordon-Booth unopposed) and HD-91/93/94/105/73 elsewhere in the county; Illinois Senate SD-47 and SD-53 (not City Hall's SD-46); Peoria County Clerk & Recorder, Sheriff, Treasurer, County Board districts, Regional Superintendent of Schools; judicial retention; local referenda. No City of Peoria office is on the ballot..
Holding office21
the sitting council
On the ballot14
4 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Peoria is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Illinois's 17th congressional district (City Hall, 419 Fulton St) — Eric Sorensen (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rita Ali ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Peoria |
2
City Clerk
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefanie Tarr Elected | City Clerk | Independent | city-wide | City of Peoria |
3
City Treasurer
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Montelongo Elected | City Treasurer | Independent | city-wide | City of Peoria |
4
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Carmona ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 2 | City of Peoria |
| Andre W. Allen ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 4 | City of Peoria |
| Bernice Gordon-Young ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Peoria |
| Denis Cyr ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 5 | City of Peoria |
| Denise Jackson ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 1 | City of Peoria |
| John L. Kelly ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Peoria |
| Kiran Velpula ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Peoria |
| Michael P. Vespa ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Peoria |
| Timothy Riggenbach ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 3 | City of Peoria |
| Zachary M. Oyler ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Peoria |
5
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JB Pritzker Elected | Governor → Running | Democratic | Office of the Governor of Illinois (carried from us-schaumburg) | |
| Collin Corbett | Governor Running | Independent | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners | |
| Darren Bailey | Governor Running | Republican | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners |
6
Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juliana Stratton Elected | Lieutenant Governor | Democratic | Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (carried from us-chicago) | |
| Aaron B. Del Mar | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners | |
| Carolyn Schofield | Lieutenant Governor Running | Independent | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners | |
| Christian Mitchell | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners |
7
State Representative — HD-92
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jehan Gordon-Booth Elected acclaimed | State Representative → Running | Democratic | Illinois General Assembly |
8
State Senator — SD-46
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Koehler Elected | State Senator | Democratic | Illinois General Assembly |
9
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard J. Durbin Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) | |
| Tammy Duckworth Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) | |
| Don Tracy | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners | |
| Juliana Stratton | U.S. Senator Running | Democratic | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners | |
| Whitfield Harrington Jr | U.S. Senator Running | American Center Party | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners |
10
U.S. Representative — IL-16
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darin LaHood Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) | |
| Paul Nolley | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners |
11
U.S. Representative — IL-17
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Sorensen Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) | |
| Dillan S. Vancil | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Candidates: Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners' certified 2026 General Election specimen ballot (www.peoriaelections.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1454, retrieved 2026-11-01; 'I hereby certify the following specimen ballot is a true copy of the ballot to be used in the General Election to be held in Peoria County, Illinois, November 3, 2026', signed Patrick Jennetten, Chairman). The Board of Election Commissioners is the election authority for the City of Peoria. robots.txt: peoriaelections.gov redirects to www.peoriaelections.gov; a group naming ClaudeBot disallows only admin/search/calendar/RSS-type paths, DocumentCenter allowed; Crawl-delay 10 (default group) honoured. Write-in lines skipped; 'No Candidate' lines not recorded. Raw PDF deleted after reading.
- Statewide and federal candidate rows are the same names already recorded in us-rockford from this same specimen ballot (re-read 2026-11-01, unchanged): U.S. Senate Stratton DEM, Tracy REP, Harrington Jr ACP; Governor & Lt. Governor Pritzker/Mitchell DEM, Bailey/Del Mar REP, Corbett/Schofield IND; IL-16 Nolley DEM v LaHood REP; IL-17 Sorensen DEM v Vancil REP. Attorney General (Raoul v Fioretti), Secretary of State (Giannoulias v Harris), Comptroller (Croke v Drew), Treasurer (Frerichs v Solomon), county offices, judges and referenda are on the ballot but outside the brief.
- Districts: Census Geocoder at City Hall (419 Fulton St) gave Peoria city, IL-17 (120th Congress), SD-46 and HD-92 (2026 layers). A 0.02-degree grid found 43 points inside 'Peoria city': CD-16 (21) and CD-17 (22) — Peoria is split between IL-16 and IL-17 and both are recorded; SD-46 (30), SD-37 (8), SD-44 (4), SD-47 (1); HD-92 (26), HD-73 (8), HD-87 (4), HD-91 (4), HD-93 (1). So at least four Senate and five House districts touch the city; only City Hall's legislators are recorded.
- State: ilga.gov Senate and House member lists (robots.txt: User-agent * disallows /account, /admin, /search, /api only; Crawl-delay 10 honoured; fetched with curl because Python could not verify the site's TLS chain), retrieved 2026-11-01: SD-46 David Koehler (D), HD-92 Jehan Gordon-Booth (D). SD-46 is not on the 2026 Peoria County ballot (only SD-47 and SD-53 are). HD-92: 'Jehan Gordon-Booth DEM / No Candidate REP' — unopposed. Governor/Lt. Governor sitting rows carried from us-rockford (gov.illinois.gov / ltgov.illinois.gov readings by earlier agents).
- Federal officeholders: CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (retrieved 2026-11-01): Durbin (term ends 2027-01-03, retiring; open seat), Duckworth (2029), LaHood (IL-16), Sorensen (IL-17). senate.gov / house.gov not used.
- Municipal: City of Peoria 'Mayor and City Council' page (www.peoriagov.org/157; robots.txt group naming ClaudeBot disallows only admin/search/calendar/CivicAlerts/RSS/FAQ-type paths — /157 and /216 allowed), retrieved 2026-11-01: 'the Mayor (elected city-wide) and five council members who represent their respective districts and five at-large council members who are elected city-wide. These officials serve four-year terms with elections staggered every two years.' Mayor Rita Ali; District 1-5: Denise Jackson, Alex Carmona, Timothy Riggenbach, Andre W. Allen, Denis Cyr; At-Large: John L. Kelly, Zachary M. Oyler, Kiran Velpula, Bernice Gordon-Young, Michael P. Vespa. Council members are also Town (Township) Trustees by virtue of office. Official @peoriagov.org emails as printed; the Clerk's office phone not copied. The 'Elected Officials' page (/216) also lists City Clerk Stefanie Tarr and City Treasurer Jim Montelongo (recorded), and Township Assessor Andrew J. Couri and Township Supervisor LaTrina Leary (City of Peoria Township offices — not recorded).
- City election: none in 2026 — no City of Peoria office is on the November 3, 2026 specimen ballot. City offices are elected at Illinois consolidated elections in odd-numbered years; the next is April 2027 (which seats are up then was not verified on a city page). Party: council seats are non-partisan (party null).
- standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. No web searches used.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- City of Peoria — Mayor and City Council 11
- Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners — 2026 General Election Specimen Ballot ('I hereby certify the following specimen ballot is a true copy of the ballot to be used in the General Election to be held in Peoria County, Illinois, November 3, 2026') 10
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) 4
- City of Peoria — Elected Officials 2
- Illinois General Assembly — Senate Members 1
- Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (carried from us-chicago) 1
- Office of the Governor of Illinois (carried from us-schaumburg) 1
- Illinois General Assembly — House Members 1