Bruce Lowell Braley is an American politician and attorney who served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 1st congressional district from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,he was defeated in his attempt to win an open seat in the 2014 United States Senate election in Iowa.
Bradley Zaun (R-Urbandale) is an Iowa State Senator representing the 22nd District as well as the Iowa Senate President pro tempore. He was the Republican nominee for Iowa's 3rd congressional district in the 2010 general election.
Jeff A. Kaufmann is a former Iowa State Representative from the 79th District. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2004 until his retirement in 2013. He served in House leadership for six years,serving as the assistant minority leader and speaker pro tem.
The Iowa Straw Poll was a presidential straw poll and fundraising event for the Republican Party of Iowa. It was held six times,traditionally in late summer approximately six months in advance of contested presidential Iowa caucuses,from 1979 until 2011,on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames.
Voters of the Republican Party elected state delegations to the 2012 Republican National Convention in presidential primaries. The national convention then selected its nominee to run for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election. There were 2,286 delegates chosen,and a candidate needed to accumulate 1,144 delegate votes at the convention to win the nomination. The caucuses allocated delegates to the respective state delegations to the national convention,but the actual election of the delegates were,many times,at a later date. Delegates were elected in different ways that vary from state to state. They could be elected at local conventions,selected from slates submitted by the candidates,selected at committee meetings,or elected directly at the caucuses and primaries.
Randall Lee Feenstra is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 4th congressional district. The district covers the state's western border and its northwestern quadrant,including Sioux City,Ames,Council Bluffs,and Marshalltown.
Kent Sorenson is a former Iowa state legislator who resigned after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and other felonies related to campaign finances.
Joni Kay Ernst is an American politician and former military officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Iowa. A member of the Republican Party,she previously served in the Iowa State Senate from 2011 to 2014 and as auditor of Montgomery County from 2004 to 2011. As Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee since 2023,after having been vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference since 2019,Ernst is the fourth-ranking Republican in the Senate.
From 2011 to 2012,Ron Paul,a U.S. representative from Texas,unsuccessfully ran for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for the president of the United States.
The 2012 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses took place on January 3,2012.
The 2012 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 6,2012,as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. State voters chose six electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate,Vice President Joe Biden,against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate,Congressman Paul Ryan.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 4,2014. Incumbent Democratic Senator Tom Harkin did not run for reelection to a sixth term in office.
The 2014 Iowa gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014. Republican incumbent Terry Branstad ran for reelection to a sixth overall and second consecutive four-year term. Branstad went on to win a historic sixth term as governor by defeating Democratic challenger and State Senator Jack Hatch,and on December 14,2015,he became the longest-serving governor in American history. He won 59.1% of the popular vote to Hatch's 37.3%,and carried every county in the state except Johnson,home to Iowa City and the University of Iowa.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on Tuesday,November 4,2014,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Iowa,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including Governor of Iowa and United States Senate. Primary elections were held on June 4,2014. As no candidate won more than 35% of the vote in the 3rd district Republican primary,that nomination was decided at a party convention on June 21.
Jesse Reeves Benton is an American political operative,convicted felon,writer,and entrepreneur. Benton is closely associated with the Paul family,having served as a campaign manager for both Ron Paul and Rand Paul. He is married to Valori Pyeatt,Ron Paul's granddaughter.
Jake Chapman is an American politician and former Iowa State Senator from the 10th District. A Republican,he served in the Iowa Senate after being elected in 2012 to a seat that had no incumbent due to redistricting. At the age of 28,Chapman won the election and served as the youngest State Senator in the 85th General Assembly. Chapman went on to become the Chairman of the Commerce Committee,followed by the Chairman of the Ways &Means Committee. In 2021 Chapman held the position of President of the Iowa Senate.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Iowa on November 4,2014. 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. Primary elections were held on June 3,2014.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Iowa was held November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Iowa,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
David Edmund Young is an American politician who currently serves as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 28th District,and previously served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 3rd congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he is a native and resident of Van Meter,a western suburb of Des Moines. He was first elected in 2014 and reelected in 2016;he lost reelection in 2018 to Democrat Cindy Axne. Young unsuccessfully challenged Axne in 2020 in a rematch,losing by 1.3%.
The 2016 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses took place on February 1 in the U.S. state of Iowa,traditionally marking the Republican Party's first nominating contest in their series of presidential primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
