# Blaine Wilhour

Blaine Wilhour is a Republican member of the Illinois House for district 110.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Illinois House, district 110
- Serving since: 2023-01-11
- Current term: IL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/500ffee4-de06-4a0b-b4df-f8e6f52c4e96

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/500ffee4-de06-4a0b-b4df-f8e6f52c4e96 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

36% of Wilhour’s statements contain a personal attack, 12.5 times the State House Republican average of 2.9%.

## What Wilhour says (IL 2025–26 session)

200 classified statements: 200 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State House Republicans average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Wilhour | State House Republicans average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 36.0% | 2.9% | 3 of 791 |
| Policy criticism | 27.0% | 9.3% | 51 of 791 |
| Policy discussion | 41.0% | 31.9% | 251 of 791 |
| Bipartisanship | 0.0% | 1.8% | 677 of 791 |
| Credit claiming | 5.0% | 12.7% | 558 of 791 |
| Extreme labels | 15.0% | 1.4% | 5 of 791 |

Most discussed policy areas: Education 29% (State House Republicans 15%); Economics and Public Finance 21% (State House Republicans 12%); Government Operations and Politics 15% (State House Republicans 18%); Taxation 15% (State House Republicans 8.1%); Energy 13% (State House Republicans 4.1%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.62 (standard error 0.02), from 67 donors and 1,146 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 87% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (IL 2025–26 session)

1,468 roll calls. Attendance 90.7% (Illinois House 92.6%). Party unity 98.1% (96.7%). 59 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (IL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 18 bills: 18 reached committee, 3 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 37. 16.7% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Illinois House 44.4%; rank 106 of 116).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 925: CONGRATS-FRANKLIN PARK (passed one chamber, 2026-05-22) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR925/
- SJR 61: CW2 DONALDSON MEM'L OVERPASS (passed both chambers, 2026-05-28) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/SJR61/
- HR 524: CONGRATS-CHIEF KENNY RYKER (passed one chamber, 2025-10-30) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR524/
- HB 3793: CONSERVATION OPP AREA-NOTICE (in committee, 2025-03-21) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB3793/
- HB 3114: EFFICIENT SCH DISTRICT COMM (in committee, 2025-02-18) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB3114/
- HB 3119: INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION ACT (in committee, 2025-02-18) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB3119/
- HB 3117: INC TX-EMINENT DOMAIN (in committee, 2025-03-21) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB3117/
- HB 3116: UNIV OF IL-ADMIT IN-STATE STU (in committee, 2026-02-26) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB3116/
- HB 3147: INVEST IN KIDS-REENACT (in committee, 2025-02-18) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB3147/
- HB 3115: ETHICS-LOBBYING RESTRICTION (in committee, 2025-03-26) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HB3115/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $500 (State House Republicans median $33.7K). Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-08-25 · Post on X · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2092072517976351215
- 2026-06-05 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism, policy discussion · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2062946328427048984
- 2026-06-02 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism, policy discussion · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2061774367202123823
- 2026-06-01 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism, policy discussion · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2061266647197872433
- 2026-05-22 · Post on X · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2057806591907238183
- 2026-05-19 · Post on X · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2056858002628506036
- 2026-05-06 · Post on X · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2052111045557117252
- 2026-04-29 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2049279675361308944
- 2026-04-29 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2049579273007124847
- 2026-04-23 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/BlaineWilhour/status/2047461653373956558

## Links

- Official site: https://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?GA=103&MemberID=3156
- Campaign site: https://repwilhour.com/
- X: https://x.com/BlaineWilhour
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlaineWilhourIL/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blaine.wilhour
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepBlaineWilhour
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blainewilhour?igsh=N3I0bzFybTl3OWVv
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@blainewilhour2092

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/500ffee4-de06-4a0b-b4df-f8e6f52c4e96