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2024 Iowa House of Representatives election ← 2022 November 5, 2024 2026 → All 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives 51 seats needed for a majority Majority party Minority party Leader Pat Grassley Jennifer Konfrst Party Republican Democratic Leader since January 13, 2020 June 14, 2019 Leader's seat 57th district 32nd district Last election 64 36 Seats won 67 33 Seat change 3 3 ...
In 1932 electoral frustration with the Great Depression and Prohibition led to the re-emergence of the Democratic Party in Iowa. Historically the party has held the Governor's office – 30 of Iowa's 41 governors have been Republicans. The only Republican president from Iowa was Herbert Hoover (a native of West Branch) who was in office from ...
Republicans also won all four of Iowa's U.S. House seats. [2] [3] As such, for most of the race Iowa was expected to be a safe red state in 2024. [4] A poll performed by Selzer and Co. and published by The Des Moines Register on November 2 claimed Harris to be up by 3%, leading some to predict a far closer race than initially expected.
This episode is symptomatic of a historic Republican divide in the House: It’s not just over ideology but also over trust in their leaders to compromise in a way that makes the party happy.
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 table also indicates the historical party composition in the: State Senate; State House of Representatives; State delegation to the U.S. Senate; State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives; For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Iowa on November 8, 2022. All of Iowa's executive officers were up for election, as well as a United States Senate seat, all four of Iowa's seats in the United States House of Representatives, 25 (half) of the seats in the Iowa Senate, and all 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives.
At an event in 2021, United States Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), claimed that the "road to the majority...comes through Iowa." [1] However, Democrats remained optimistic, with former U.S. Representative Abby Finkenauer saying she "couldn't be more excited" about the roster of Iowa Democrats running for Congress in 2022. [2]