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The state's congressional map is roughly divided by quadrants in the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest sections of Iowa. The districts were represented by three Republicans and one Democrat from the 2014 elections to the 2020 elections , with a brief period of Democratic control after the 2018 elections.
Located in Ames, Iowa, DOT is also responsible for licensing drivers and programming and planning for aviation, rail, and public transit. The organization was created in 1904 as the Iowa State Highway Commission, an extension of Iowa State College in Ames. In 1913, the commission was spun off from the college and became a government organization.
The Iowa State Capitol, commonly called the Iowa Statehouse, is in Iowa's capital city, Des Moines. As the seat of the Iowa General Assembly , the building houses the Iowa Senate , Iowa House of Representatives , the Office of the Governor , and the Offices of the Attorney General , Auditor , Treasurer , and Secretary of State .
The Iowa General Assembly is the legislative branch of the state government of Iowa. Like the federal United States Congress, the General Assembly is a bicameral body, composed of the upper house Iowa Senate and the lower Iowa House of Representatives respectively. The Senate consists of four year terms and the House consists of two year terms.
The Iowa Senate is the upper house of the Iowa General Assembly. There are 50 seats in the Iowa Senate, representing 50 single-member districts across the state of Iowa with populations of approximately 60,927 per constituency, as of the 2010 United States census. [1] Each Senate district is composed of two House districts.
Executive offices General Assembly United States Congress Electoral votes; Governor Lt. Governor Sec. of State Attorney Gen. Auditor Treasurer State Senate State House U.S. Senator (Class II) U.S. Senator (Class III) U.S. House; 1846 Ansel Briggs (D) no such office: Elisha Cutler Jr. (D) no such office: Joseph T. Fales (D) Morgan Reno (D) 12D ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Counties continued to be created by the state government until 1857, when the last county, Humboldt County, was created. [4] One of the most significant days in Iowa county history was January 15, 1851, on which 49 counties were created. [5] Map of counties numbered as in the National Atlas of the United States