 <ul class="summary-list"><li>GOP Rep. <keyword id="3736230" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="rodney-davis">Rodney Davis</keyword> has won reelection in <keyword id="62649" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Illinois">Illinois</keyword>' 13th Congressional District after a second challenge from Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, according to Decision Desk HQ. </li><li>Davis narrowly defeated Londrigan by a little more than 2,000 votes and a margin of less than 1 percentage point in the 2018 midterms. </li><li>The district occupies a swath of Central Illinois.</li><li>See the live coverage and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-house-elections-results">full results from all US House elections.</a></li></ul><p>GOP <strong>Rep. Rodney Davis </strong>has defeated<strong> Betsy Dirksen</strong> <strong>Londrigan</strong>, a Democrat, to win reelection in Illinois' 13th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. </p><h2>The candidates</h2><p>Davis, who has represented the district since 2013, is a conservative but relatively mainstream Republican member who has voted with President Donald Trump 91% of the time, <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/rodney-davis/">according to FiveThirtyEight</a>. He serves as the ranking member of the House Administration Committee and on the powerful House Agriculture and House Transportation and Infrastructure committees.</p><p>This race was a highly watched rematch between the two candidates. Davis narrowly defeated Londrigan by a little over 2,000 votes and a margin of less than 1 percentage point in the 2018 midterms.</p><p>In both her 2018 and 2020 campaigns, <a href="https://www.betsydirksenlondrigan.com/meet-betsy/">Londrigan heavily emphasized protecting and expanding access to healthcare</a>, contrasting her campaign message with Davis' record of voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017.</p><p>Both candidates' campaigns were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-March, <a href="https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/705726?unlock=E38YYFWXH7KEI0K4&amp;unlock=RF2PFKPH1H1GVMXEVMXE">Londrigan self-quarantined for two weeks</a> after coming into contact with an infected person, and Davis recently <a href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=403838">announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus</a>, one of several lawmakers to test positive this year.</p><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-election-results">See live coverage and full results for the US presidential election</a></h3><h2>The district</h2><p>Illinois' 13th Congressional District <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois%27_13th_Congressional_District">occupies a swath of Central Illinois</a> stretching southwest from the city of Champaign, past the state's capital city of Springfield and down to the area outside St. Louis in southwestern Illinois.</p><p>The district voted for Trump by a margin of 6 percentage points, 50% to 44%, in the 2016 election.</p><h2>The money race</h2><p>According <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&amp;id=IL13&amp;spec=Np;spec=N">to the Center for Responsive Politics</a>, Londrigan raised $4.3 million, spent $3 million, and had $1.3 million cash on hand while Davis raised $4.1 million, spent $2.4 million, and had $1.7 million in cash on hand.</p><h2>What some of the experts say</h2><p>The race in the general election between Londrigan and Davis was rated as a "toss-up" by <a href="https://insideelections.com/ratings/house">Inside Elections</a> and <a href="https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a>, and "leans Republican" according to <a href="http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2020-house/">Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics</a>.</p>Expanded Coverage Module: insider-voter-guide

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GOP Rep. Rodney Davis wins reelection in Illinois' 13th Congressional District after a challenge from Democrat Betsy Londrigan

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