Bushra Amiwala
Running for U.S. House District 9 — 2026 election
Raised · 2026 cycle
$1.2M
Source: FEC
As of July 2026, Bushra Amiwala is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House District 9 in Illinois in the 2026 election. Federal Election Commission filings report $1,182,078 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.
Bushra Amiwala is a Skokie, Illinois school board member who ran for the Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Illinois' 9th Congressional District in 2026. She was first elected to the Skokie School District 73.5 board in April 2019, the first Gen Z woman elected to public office in the United States at that time, and was re-elected in April 2023. She previously ran unsuccessfully for the Cook County Board of Commissioners in the 2018 Democratic primary. Amiwala holds a bachelor's degree from DePaul University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (June 2025).
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99% of fundraising comes from individual donors — one of the more grassroots-funded profiles in this cycle.
$1.2M
Total raised
$1.1M
Total spent
$59K
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