Your monthly support provides voters the knowledge they need to make confident decisions at the polls. Donate today.
Meg Loughran Cappel
Meg Loughran Cappel (Democratic Party) is a member of the Illinois State Senate, representing District 49. She assumed office on December 10, 2020. Her current term ends on January 10, 2029.
Loughran Cappel (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Illinois State Senate to represent District 49. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Meg Loughran Cappel's career experience includes working as a special education teacher and co-founding Elite Driving School.[1]
Committee assignments
Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at: editor@ballotpedia.org.
2023-2024
Loughran Cappel was assigned to the following committees:
- Behavioral and Mental Health
- Commerce Committee
- Education Committee, Vice Chair
- Labor Committee
- State Government Committee
2021-2022
Loughran Cappel was assigned to the following committees:
- Behavioral and Mental Health
- Commerce Committee
- Education Committee, Vice-Chair
- Labor Committee
- State Government Committee
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Illinois State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Illinois State Senate District 49
Incumbent Meg Loughran Cappel defeated Katie Deane-Schlottman in the general election for Illinois State Senate District 49 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Meg Loughran Cappel (D) | 56.0 | 55,505 |
| Katie Deane-Schlottman (R) | 44.0 | 43,537 | ||
| Total votes: 99,042 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 49
Incumbent Meg Loughran Cappel advanced from the Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 49 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Meg Loughran Cappel | 100.0 | 9,360 |
| Total votes: 9,360 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois State Senate District 49
Katie Deane-Schlottman advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois State Senate District 49 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Katie Deane-Schlottman | 100.0 | 7,204 | |
| Total votes: 7,204 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Loughran Cappel in this election.
2022
See also: Illinois State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Illinois State Senate District 49
Incumbent Meg Loughran Cappel won election in the general election for Illinois State Senate District 49 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Meg Loughran Cappel (D) | 100.0 | 48,969 |
| Total votes: 48,969 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Stacey Keagle (R)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 49
Incumbent Meg Loughran Cappel advanced from the Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 49 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Meg Loughran Cappel | 100.0 | 11,054 |
| Total votes: 11,054 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois State Senate District 49
Stacey Keagle defeated James Lawson Jr. and Felicity Joy Solomon in the Republican primary for Illinois State Senate District 49 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Stacey Keagle | 46.8 | 5,003 | |
| James Lawson Jr. | 38.4 | 4,109 | ||
 | Felicity Joy Solomon | 14.8 | 1,589 | |
| Total votes: 10,701 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
2020
See also: Illinois State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Illinois State Senate District 49
Meg Loughran Cappel defeated Thomas McCullagh in the general election for Illinois State Senate District 49 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Meg Loughran Cappel (D) | 56.2 | 64,276 |
| Thomas McCullagh (R) | 43.8 | 50,052 | ||
| Total votes: 114,328 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 49
Meg Loughran Cappel defeated Larry Hug and Michael Crowner in the Democratic primary for Illinois State Senate District 49 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Meg Loughran Cappel | 59.5 | 15,159 |
| Larry Hug | 20.4 | 5,203 | ||
 | Michael Crowner | 20.1 | 5,114 | |
| Total votes: 25,476 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois State Senate District 49
Thomas McCullagh advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois State Senate District 49 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Thomas McCullagh | 100.0 | 9,842 | |
| Total votes: 9,842 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Meg Loughran Cappel did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Meg Loughran Cappel did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Meg Loughran Cappel did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
Scorecards
A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislator’s political positions. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. For example, an advocacy group’s scorecard may assess a legislator’s voting record on one issue while a state newspaper’s scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety.
Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. It is Ballotpedia’s goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.
Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states. To contribute to the list of Illinois scorecards, email suggestions to editor@ballotpedia.org.
2024
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2024, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2024, the Illinois State Legislature was in session from January 16 to May 29.
|
2023
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2023, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2023, the Illinois State Legislature was in session from January 11 to May 27.
|
2022
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2022, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2022, the Illinois State Legislature was in session from January 5 to April 9.
|
2021
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2021, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2021, the Illinois State Legislature was in session from January 13 to June 1.
|
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Illinois State Senate District 49 |
Officeholder Illinois State Senate District 49 |
Personal |
Footnotes
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant (D) |
Illinois State Senate District 49 2020-Present |
Succeeded by - |
