Eric Sorensen
American politician (born 1976)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, IL-17 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2024 · U.S. House, IL-17 · General · Democratic · result not on file · incumbent · source
- 2022 · U.S. House, IL-17 · General · Democratic · won · 121,186 votes (52.0%) · source
Background
Eric Sorensen is an American politician and meteorologist serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 17th congressional district since 2023.
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His district covers a large swath of western and central Illinois, centered around Moline, Rock Island, and the Illinois side of the Quad Cities. It also includes parts of Peoria and Rockford. A member of the Democratic Party, Sorensen is the first openly gay member of Congress from Illinois.
Campaign finance
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-19 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sorensen_(politician)
- Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115182513
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2IL17147/
- photo_action — https://sorensen.house.gov
- photo_headshot — https://sorensen.house.gov/about-eric
- photo_full_body — https://sorensen.house.gov
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