United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Illinois 16
Paul Nolley
Result: Lost · 41.2% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
Paul Nolley’s FEC committees ran 5 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 5 May 2026 and 5 May 2026. Meta reports $2.4–3.3K of spend. That makes Paul Nolley the 783rd largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Illinois 16. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
5
ads on 1 page
$2.8K
reported spend, range $2.4–3.3K
100%
of spend on federal races
$150
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 5 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- our own Congressman$2.8K
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| NOLLEY FOR CONGRESS C00900399 | 5 | $2.8K |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
I'm Paul Nolley, and I'm running for Congress in one of the last Republican districts in Illinois – and I know we can flip it. We all know politics has left working families behind — corruption and backroom deals are the norm, and our own Congressman hasn't held a town hall in our district in over eight YEARS. So I'm jumping into the race to give our community a real voice for the people, not someone who's going to fold to their wealthy donors or party bosses. I’ve spent my career fighting fo
5 May 2026 · Paul Nolley for Congress · $2–2.5K · 25K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Nolley for Congress | 5 | $2.8K |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s Ad Library.
Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.
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