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Illinois' 1st congressional district election, 2000
The 2000 United States House of Representatives election for the 1st district in Illinois took place on November 7, 2000 to elect a representative from Illinois's 1st congressional district for the 107th United States Congress. Incumbent Democratic Representative Bobby Rush faced a primary challenge from Barack Obama. Rush defeated Obama 61 percent to 30 percent, with other candidates combining for the remaining nine percent. Rush then defeated his Republican opponent, Raymond Wardingley, 87 percent to 12 percent, ensuring his reelection.
Subsequent to this election Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2004. He was then elected President of the United States in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.
==The district==
(詳細はIllinois's 1st congressional district is a minority-majority district. At the time of the election, 65 percent of its constituents were African American.〔 In redistricting after the 1990 United States Census, the district was extended into the suburbs for the first time in 90 years, though a majority of the districts' residents (70%) lived in Chicago. A strongly Democratic district, only twice since 1966 has a Republican candidate for United States Congress received over 20% of the vote.〔Based on general election results beginning in 1968, 〕
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