Editing Chicago Loop (section)

===Federal===
The Loop community area has supported the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] in the past two presidential elections by large margins. In the [[United States presidential election in Illinois, 2016|2016 presidential election]], Loop residents cast 11,141 votes for [[Hillary Clinton]] and 2,148 votes for [[Donald Trump]] (79.43% to 15.31%).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/numbers/president-vice-president-every-neighborhood-map-election-results-voting-general-primary-illinois/|last=Ali|first=Tanveer|title=How Every Chicago Neighborhood Voted In The 2016 Presidential Election|newspaper=[[DNAInfo]]|date=November 9, 2016|access-date=October 4, 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924090904/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/numbers/president-vice-president-every-neighborhood-map-election-results-voting-general-primary-illinois/|archive-date=September 24, 2019}}</ref> In the [[United States presidential election in Illinois, 2012|2012 presidential election]], Loop residents cast 8,134 votes for [[Barack Obama]] and 2,850 votes for [[Mitt Romney]] (72.26% to 25.32%).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/numbers/obama-romney-president-vice-president-every-neighborhood-map-2012-election-results-voting-general-primary-illinois/|last=Ali|first=Tanveer|title=How Every Chicago Neighborhood Voted In The 2012 Presidential Election|newspaper=[[DNAInfo]]|date=November 9, 2012|access-date=October 4, 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203045330/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/numbers/obama-romney-president-vice-president-every-neighborhood-map-2012-election-results-voting-general-primary-illinois/|archive-date=February 3, 2019}}</ref>

In the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]], the area is wholly within [[Illinois's 7th congressional district]], which is the most Democratically leaning district in Illinois, according to the [[Cook Partisan Voting Index]], with a score of D+38, and represented by Democrat [[Danny K. Davis]].

'''List of United States representatives representing the Loop since 1903'''<ref name="Historic District Boundaries">{{cite web |title=U.S. Congressional District Shapefiles |url=http://cdmaps.polisci.ucla.edu/ |publisher=UCLA |access-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-date=October 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020123304/http://cdmaps.polisci.ucla.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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[[Illinois's 1st congressional district]] (1903 &ndash; 1963):
*[[Martin Emerich]], Democratic (March 4, 1903 &ndash; March 3, 1905)
*[[Martin B. Madden]], Republican (March 4, 1905 &ndash; April 27, 1928)
*''Vacant'' (April 27, 1928 &ndash; March 3, 1929)
*[[Oscar Stanton De Priest]], Republican (March 4, 1929 &ndash; January 3, 1935)
*[[Arthur W. Mitchell]], Democratic (January 3, 1935 &ndash; January 3, 1943)
*[[William L. Dawson (politician)|William L. Dawson]], Democratic (January 3, 1943 &ndash; January 3, 1963)
[[Illinois's 7th congressional district]] (1963&ndash;present):
*[[Roland V. Libonati]], Democratic (January 3, 1963 &ndash; January 3, 1965)
*[[Frank Annunzio]], Democratic (January 3, 1965 &ndash; January 3, 1973)
*''Vacant'' (January 3 &ndash; June 5, 1973)
*[[Cardiss Collins]], Democratic (June 5, 1973 &ndash; January 3, 1997)
*[[Danny K. Davis]], Democratic (January 3, 1997 &ndash; present)