Richard Yates

★ U.S. Representative

Born: December 12, 1860
Died: April 11, 1936
Age at death: 75
Home state: Illinois
Party: Republican
On the ballot: 1918–1932

Career timeline

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7-1

RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Yates9.4M

Opponents23.4M

Elections run

Between 1918 and 1932, Richard Yates ran in 8 U.S. House elections, winning 7 and losing 1. Yates's biggest single-election total was 1,673,962 votes, in the 1928 U.S. House election in Illinois's at-large district. Yates's closest win came in the 1924 U.S. House election in Illinois's at-large district, decided by 5,313 votes.

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How many votes has Richard Yates received?

Richard Yates has received 9,406,708 popular votes across 8 U.S. elections, with a career record of 7–1.

Election history

Richard Yates’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1932	U.S. HouseIllinois	Lost	1,421,22122.69%	Martin Brennan Walter Nesbit Julius Klein Hyman Schneid George Koop (head-to-head) Anthony Pszczolkowski Leslie Raymond Hurt David T Alexander James A Crawford Pasquale Iovino
1930	U.S. HouseIllinois	Won	991,08325.14%	William Dieterich Walter Nesbit Perry H Smith Jr. Emil Z Levitin Morris A Gold William S Feinberg John W McLain Brown (head-to-head) Charles A Reinhart
1928	U.S. HouseIllinois	Won	1,673,96229.37%	Ruth McCormick Brown (head-to-head) James M Joplin M E Kirkpatrick John E Mahoney Elizabeth G Doty Frank Gushes James S Orourke (head-to-head) Joel T Buckley
1926	U.S. HouseIllinois	Won	986,09030.45%	Henry Rathbone (head-to-head) L N Wise Charles A Karch P J Carlson Charles Pogoreles George Koop (head-to-head) James S Orourke (head-to-head) A H Otto Beneze William Preston Harrison Andrew A Gour Michl Connor
1924	U.S. HouseIllinois	Won	1,519,02134.47%	Gus C Sandberg Henry Rathbone (head-to-head) J D Hart Allen D Albert John C Flora J E Procum C E Clouse Robert Minor E B Hewlett Patrick H Morrissey Dora Welty Robert R Hill
1922	U.S. HouseIllinois	Won	943,68428.43%	Henry Rathbone (head-to-head) James A Gorman William K Murphy (head-to-head) Fred William Wenschoff Andrew Lafin James Carr Henry W Olinger
1920	U.S. HouseIllinois	Won	1,369,67333.11%	William Mason (head-to-head) William K Murphy (head-to-head) C S Schneider F H Hall John Hubert Gifford Ernest Robert Weber Margaret Wintringer Harvey G Jones Henry Schilling Frank K Kuchenbecker Henry Neil
1918	U.S. HouseIllinois	Won	501,97428.25%	William Mason (head-to-head) Martin Williams M Cleary Harvey M Brooks Frank Watts Edward E Blake Charles Corson William Hartness Joseph Hamrle

Identity & sources. Identity verified against the Congressional Bioguide (Y000011) and Wikidata (Q363786). Election results come from official certified totals and the MIT Election Data and Science Lab; see methodology.

Cite this profile. PolitiFinder, “Richard Yates: election history & vote totals.” https://politifinder.com/p/richard-yates-illinois. Accessed [date].

Compiled by PolitiFinder. Election results from official certified sources and the MIT Election Lab. See Data & sources and methodology. Data last verified July 28, 2026.