He has been a voice for conservative issues in the House and comes from a heavily Republican district.

He won with 60% of the vote, an unusually low total for such a heavily Republican district.

The news was not good in this heavily Republican area of Illinois today.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in the heavily Republican year of 1918.

He was re-elected 11 times in a heavily Republican district.

Indeed, she won 37 of the state's 62 counties in the general election, though those were by and large heavily Republican areas.

The area is heavily Republican and thinks of itself as libertarian.

Johnson won the general election, having benefited from 1994 being a heavily Republican year nationwide.

A sense of urgency brought him out to vote early in his heavily Republican precinct, he said.

Once considered secure in his heavily Republican district, he lost by 5 percentage points.