Junaid Ahmed
Running for U.S. House District 8 — 2026 election
Raised · 2026 cycle
$1.7M
Source: FEC
As of July 2026, Junaid Ahmed is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House District 8 in Illinois in the 2026 election. Federal Election Commission filings report $1,650,112 in total receipts for the 2026 cycle. All figures on this page are drawn from primary sources — FEC filings, congressional records, and STOCK Act disclosures — and link back to them.
Data last updated July 2026.
Junaid Ahmed (Democratic) ran for the U.S. House in Illinois' 8th Congressional District in 2026, losing the Democratic primary on March 17, 2026 with 18,954 votes (26.9%). He previously ran in the 2022 Democratic primary for the same district against incumbent Raja Krishnamoorthi. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from DePaul University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and worked in professional services from 2000 to 2007 and in information technology consulting from 2007 to 2021.
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85% of fundraising comes from individual donors — one of the more grassroots-funded profiles in this cycle.
$1.7M
Total raised
$1.5M
Total spent
$141K
Cash on hand
Where the money comes from
Reflects money received by the campaign committee itself. “Loans and other receipts” covers candidate or bank loans, offsets to operating expenditures, interest and other non-contribution receipts reported to the FEC. Independent expenditures by super PACs are not included.
Totals through 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC