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Who is on the ballot in Iowa on November 3, 2026?

For the November 3, 2026 general election. From the Iowa Secretary of State candidate list, checked October 7, 2026.

This page lists every candidate on the Iowa Secretary of State's list for U.S. Senate, governor and other statewide offices, Congress and the legislature: 245 candidates in 136 races. Within each race, candidates are in alphabetical order by last name. It shows every candidate on that office's candidate list for the November 3, 2026 general election as last updated August 19, 2026, alphabetically by last name, with names and parties as the list gives them. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor of each party are shown together, as they are elected.

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U.S. Senator

Statewide offices

Governor and Lieutenant Governor

  • Zach Lahn and Derek Wulf (Republican)
  • Rob Sand and Dave Muhlbauer (Democratic)

Secretary of State

  • Paul D. Pate (Republican)
  • Ryan Peterman (Democratic)

Auditor of State

  • Chris Cournoyer (Republican)
  • Taylor Wettach (Democratic)

Treasurer of State

  • John Norwood (Democratic)
  • Roby Smith (Republican)

Secretary of Agriculture

  • Chris Jones (Democratic)
  • Mike Naig (Republican)

Attorney General

  • Brenna Bird (Republican)
  • Nate Willems (Democratic)

U.S. House of Representatives

All 4 Iowa congressional districts elect a representative.

1st Congressional District

  • Christina Bohannan (Democratic)
  • Michael Bridgford (No Party)
  • Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Republican)

2nd Congressional District

  • Dave Bushaw (No Party)
  • Lindsay James (Democratic)
  • Joe Mitchell (Republican)
  • Rick Stewart (Libertarian)

3rd Congressional District

  • Sarah Trone Garriott (Democratic)
  • Zach Nunn (Republican)

4th Congressional District

  • Dave Dawson (Democratic)
  • Chris McGowan (Republican)

Iowa State Senate

The list has candidates in 25 State Senate districts. A district that is not shown has no candidate on the list for this election.

State Senator, District 1

  • Catelin Drey (Democratic)
  • Christopher Prosch (Republican)

State Senator, District 3

  • Lynn Evans (Republican)
  • Mike Frantz (Democratic)

State Senator, District 5

  • Rachel Gravert (No Party)
  • Dave Rowley (Republican)

State Senator, District 7

  • Kevin Alons (Republican)

State Senator, District 9

  • Steve Baier (Republican)
  • James Uhlenkamp (Democratic)

State Senator, District 11

  • Sinikka Waugh (Democratic)
  • Hollie Arlene Zajicek (Republican)

State Senator, District 13

  • Brenda Case (Democratic)
  • Jeff Kulmatycki (Republican)

State Senator, District 15

  • Tony Bisignano (Democratic)

State Senator, District 17

  • Samy El-Baroudi (Democratic)
  • Ronald Langston (Republican)

State Senator, District 19

  • Barb Kniff McCulla (Republican)
  • Zachary Mecham (Democratic)

State Senator, District 21

  • John Hollinrake (Republican)
  • Heather Matson (Democratic)

State Senator, District 23

  • Wes Enos (Republican)
  • Tony Thompson (Democratic)

State Senator, District 25

  • Herman C Quirmbach (Democratic)
  • Paul Wacker (Republican)

State Senator, District 27

  • Annette Sweeney (Republican)

State Senator, District 29

  • Sandy Salmon (Republican)
  • Jim Vowels (Democratic)

State Senator, District 31

  • Timi Brown Powers (Democratic)

State Senator, District 33

  • Carrie Koelker (Republican)
  • Mary Ungs-Sogaard (Democratic)

State Senator, District 35

  • Joe Stutting (Republican)
  • Mike Zimmer (Democratic)

State Senator, District 37

  • Molly Donahue (Democratic)
  • Randy Marzen (Republican)

State Senator, District 39

  • Liz Bennett (Democratic)
  • Edward Bernie Hayes (Republican)

State Senator, District 41

  • Kerry Gruenhagen (Republican)
  • Tom Wieck (Democratic)

State Senator, District 43

  • Meghann Foster (Democratic)

State Senator, District 45

  • Janice Weiner (Democratic)

State Senator, District 47

  • Nikhil Wagle (Democratic)
  • Scott Webster (Republican)

State Senator, District 49

  • Cynthia Mensendick (Republican)
  • Cindy Winckler (Democratic)

Iowa House of Representatives

The list has candidates in 100 districts. A district that is not shown has no candidate on the list for this election.

State Representative, District 1

  • Shawn Olorundami (Democratic)
  • Josh Steinhoff (Republican)

State Representative, District 2

  • Robert Henderson (Republican)
  • Jessica Lopez-Walker (Democratic)

State Representative, District 3

  • Robert Driesen (Republican)

State Representative, District 4

  • Garth Van Donselaar (No Party)
  • Skyler Wheeler (Republican)

State Representative, District 5

  • Keith Glienke (Republican)
  • Stephanie Steiner (Democratic)

State Representative, District 6

  • Megan Jones (Republican)

State Representative, District 7

  • Rachel Burns (Democratic)
  • Wendy Larson (Republican)

State Representative, District 8

  • Ann Meyer (Republican)
  • Kristofer Williams (Democratic)

State Representative, District 9

  • Henry Stone (Republican)

State Representative, District 10

  • John H Wills (Republican)

State Representative, District 11

  • Bill Owen (Democratic)
  • Craig Williams (Republican)

State Representative, District 12

  • Dustin Durbin (Democratic)
  • Steven Holt (Republican)

State Representative, District 13

  • Travis M. Sitzmann (Republican)

State Representative, District 14

  • Jacob Bossman (Republican)

State Representative, District 15

  • Blake Johnson (No Party)
  • Marilyn J Mentzer (No Party)
  • Benjamin Schauer (Democratic)
  • Jason Sherer (Republican)

State Representative, District 16

  • Jack Goodman (Democratic)
  • David A. Sieck (Republican)

State Representative, District 17

  • Devon Wood (Republican)

State Representative, District 18

  • Thomas Jay Moore (Republican)
  • Tripp Narup (Democratic)

State Representative, District 19

  • Benjamin Thomas Larson (Democratic)
  • Brent Siegrist (Republican)

State Representative, District 20

  • Eric Armstrong (Democratic)
  • Keith Jones (Republican)

State Representative, District 21

  • Brooke Boden (Republican)
  • Spencer A Waugh (Democratic)

State Representative, District 22

  • Samantha Fett (Republican)
  • Rory Taylor (Democratic)

State Representative, District 23

  • Ray Bubba Sorensen (Republican)
  • Karen Varley (Democratic)

State Representative, District 24

  • Sonya Hicks (Democratic)
  • Sam Wengryn (Republican)

State Representative, District 25

  • Kolton Jones (Democratic)
  • Hans C. Wilz (Republican)

State Representative, District 26

  • Austin Harris (Republican)
  • Brett Mohler (Democratic)

State Representative, District 27

  • Kenan Judge (Democratic)

State Representative, District 28

  • Tom Walton (Democratic)
  • David Young (Republican)

State Representative, District 29

  • Brian Meyer (Democratic)

State Representative, District 30

  • Megan L. Srinivas (Democratic)

State Representative, District 31

  • Kevin W. DuBay (Republican)
  • Mary Madison (Democratic)

State Representative, District 32

  • Mike Jones (Democratic)

State Representative, District 33

  • Lynn Hammel (Republican)
  • Ivette Muhammad (Democratic)

State Representative, District 34

  • Rob Johnson (Democratic)

State Representative, District 35

  • Sean Bagniewski (Democratic)

State Representative, District 36

  • Austin Baeth (Democratic)
  • Bruce A Michalowski (Republican)

State Representative, District 37

  • Jason Sandholdt (Republican)

State Representative, District 38

  • Brad Magg (Democratic)
  • Matthew Oleson (Republican)

State Representative, District 39

  • Nate Boulton (Democratic)
  • Troy Clark (Republican)

State Representative, District 40

  • Bill Gustoff (Republican)
  • Heather Sievers (Democratic)

State Representative, District 41

  • Molly Buck (Democratic)
  • Ryan Weldon (Republican)

State Representative, District 42

  • Heather Stephenson (Republican)
  • Amy Tagliareni (Democratic)

State Representative, District 43

  • Jill Alesch (Democratic)
  • Nicole Hasso (Republican)

State Representative, District 44

  • Larry McBurney (Democratic)

State Representative, District 45

  • Kendra Haug (Democratic)
  • Austin Stubbs (Republican)

State Representative, District 46

  • Dan Gehlbach (Republican)
  • Mandy Newton Rosenow (Democratic)

State Representative, District 47

  • Chris New (Democratic)
  • Carter F. Nordman (Republican)

State Representative, District 48

  • Chad Behn (Republican)
  • Benjamin Olsen (Democratic)

State Representative, District 49

  • Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (Democratic)

State Representative, District 50

  • Ross Wilburn (Democratic)

State Representative, District 51

  • Brett Barker (Republican)
  • Teresa Perin (Democratic)

State Representative, District 52

  • David Blom (Republican)
  • Mike Tupper (Democratic)

State Representative, District 53

  • Dean Fisher (Republican)
  • Berleen Wobeter (Democratic)

State Representative, District 54

  • Joshua Meggers (Republican)
  • Leila Ann Staton (Democratic)

State Representative, District 55

  • Beau Klaver (Republican)
  • Cynthia Oppedal Paschen (Democratic)

State Representative, District 56

  • Kyle Kruse (Democratic)
  • Mark I. Thompson (Republican)

State Representative, District 57

  • Shawn Ellerbroek (Democratic)
  • Pat Grassley (Republican)

State Representative, District 58

  • India May (Democratic)
  • Charley Thomson (Republican)

State Representative, District 59

  • Christian Hermanson (Republican)
  • Jacob Welper (Democratic)

State Representative, District 60

  • Dani Ollenburg (Republican)
  • Alexander Schmidt (Democratic)

State Representative, District 61

  • Vincent Collis (Democratic)
  • Lucas Hewitt (No Party)

State Representative, District 62

  • Jerome Amos Jr (Democratic)

State Representative, District 63

  • Michael R. Bergan (Republican)
  • Jeff Thurlow (Democratic)

State Representative, District 64

  • Brian Bruening (Democratic)
  • Jason Gearhart (Republican)

State Representative, District 65

  • Shannon Lundgren (Republican)
  • Carolyn Wiezorek (Democratic)

State Representative, District 66

  • Steven Bradley (Republican)
  • Matt English (Democratic)

State Representative, District 67

  • Michael Coonrad (Democratic)
  • Craig Johnson (Republican)

State Representative, District 68

  • Scott Bodley (Democratic)
  • Chad Ingels (Republican)

State Representative, District 69

  • Tom Determann (Republican)
  • Randy Meier (Democratic)

State Representative, District 70

  • Norlin Mommsen (Republican)
  • George Pickup (Democratic)

State Representative, District 71

  • Sam Wooden (Democratic)

State Representative, District 72

  • Matt Robinson (Democratic)
  • Jennifer Smith (Republican)

State Representative, District 73

  • Elizabeth Wilson (Democratic)

State Representative, District 74

  • Eric Gjerde (Democratic)

State Representative, District 75

  • Drew Stensland (Democratic)

State Representative, District 76

  • Calvin Horn (Democratic)
  • Matt Reisetter (Republican)

State Representative, District 77

  • Jeff Cooling (Democratic)

State Representative, District 78

  • Angel Ramirez (Democratic)

State Representative, District 79

  • Tracy Ehlert (Democratic)
  • Barclay Woerner (Republican)

State Representative, District 80

  • Aime J Wichtendahl (Democratic)

State Representative, District 81

  • Dillon Fillion (Republican)
  • Daniel Gosa (Democratic)

State Representative, District 82

  • James Behrmann (Democratic)
  • Bobby Kaufmann (Republican)

State Representative, District 83

  • Mike Bergman (Democratic)
  • Cindy Golding (Republican)

State Representative, District 84

  • Polly Denison (Democratic)
  • Thomas Gerhold (Republican)

State Representative, District 85

  • Amy Nielsen (Democratic)

State Representative, District 86

  • Dave Jacoby (Democratic)

State Representative, District 87

  • Thomas R. O'Donnell (Democratic)
  • Jeff Shipley (Republican)

State Representative, District 88

  • Helena Hayes (Republican)

State Representative, District 89

  • Daniel Arch (No Party)
  • Elinor A. Levin (Democratic)

State Representative, District 90

  • Adam Zabner (Democratic)

State Representative, District 91

  • Mark Divitt (Democratic)
  • Judd Lawler (Republican)

State Representative, District 92

  • Brittany Erickson (Democratic)
  • Heather Hora (Republican)

State Representative, District 93

  • Gary M. Mohr (Republican)
  • Keith Soko (Democratic)

State Representative, District 94

  • Karen Roebuck (Democratic)
  • Mike Vondran (Republican)

State Representative, District 95

  • Taylor Collins (Republican)
  • Carrie Trevino (Democratic)

State Representative, District 96

  • Mark Cisneros (Republican)
  • Nick Salazar (Democratic)

State Representative, District 97

  • Charlie Helmick (Republican)
  • Adam Peters (Democratic)

State Representative, District 98

  • Andrew Fitzgerald (Democratic)
  • Nathan Ramker (Republican)

State Representative, District 99

  • Jennifer Kirkman (Democratic)
  • Matthew Rinker (Republican)

State Representative, District 100

  • Matthew Mohrfeld (Democratic)
  • Blaine Watkins (Republican)

Judges, county offices and local questions

These are not listed on this page: judges up for a retention vote, county and local offices, and ballot questions. The Iowa Secretary of State's full candidate list has every office it covers. Your full sample ballot, with every contest and question you will see, comes from your county or local election office: find yours.

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