Lipinski wins re-election

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski won re-election in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District, The Associated Press reported, taking 75 percent of the vote so far over his opponent, a Holocaust denier with ties to neo-Nazism, according to unofficial vote totals.

With about two-thirds of the precincts reporting, Republican challenger Arthur Jones, however, garnered nearly 35,000 votes at the polls in Cook, DuPage and Will counties despite a coalition of religious and political leaders that urged voters not to support him.

The results may not include all early voting tallies.

Jones, a 70-year-old from Lyons, had run for office several times before but never advanced to the general election. Jones earned 20,681 votes when he ran unopposed in the Republican primary in March.

Lipinski has condemned Jones as a racist, a bigot and an anti-Semite. The incumbent said he has tried to limit speaking about Jones because he didn't want to give his challenger a platform to “spew his hatred.”

Lipinski has represented the district — a Democratic stronghold that stretches from the city's Southwest Side to the west and south suburbs — since he first won election in 2005.