Gary Worthan is a former Iowa State Representative from the 11th District. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2007 to 2023,having won a December 13,2006 special election to replace the deceased Mary Lou Freeman,who had run unopposed in the general election. Smith was born and lives in Storm Lake,Iowa. He has an A.A. in farm operations from Iowa State University.
Janet Petersen is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Iowa Senate representing the 18th District since January 2013. She previously served as the Senate Minority Leader and has previously represented the 64th district in the Iowa House of Representatives,between 2001 and 2013. She received her BA from the University of Northern Iowa and her MA from Drake University.
Kevin M. McCarthy is an American Democratic legislator who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2003 until 2013 and,for his last two years there,was the House Minority Leader. McCarthy was born,raised,and resides in Des Moines,Iowa. He received his B.A. from Wartburg College and his J.D. from Drake University.
James Van Fossen is a former Iowa State Representative from the 81st and 42nd Districts. A Republican,he served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1995 to 2009. He received his BBA from Saint Ambrose University.
Dennis M. Cohoon is an American politician who served as an Iowa State Representative from 1987 to 2023 representing several different seats in Burlington.
Jason M. Schultz is the Iowa State Senator from the 6th District - previously Iowa's 9th District (2015-2023). A Republican,he served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015 and is an advocate for the loosening of child labor laws. He lives in Schleswig,Crawford County.
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 4,2014,in 36 states and three territories,concurrent with other elections during the 2014 United States elections.
Mark Lofgren is a member of the Iowa Senate,representing the 46th district. He was elected in 2016,defeating incumbent Democratic Senator Chris Brase.
Daniel D. Kelley is the former Iowa State Representative from the 29th District. He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. Kelley was born in Marshalltown,Iowa and was raised and resides in Newton. He has a B.A. with honors in communication studies from the University of Iowa.
The 2020 United States Senate elections were held on November 3,2020,with the 33 class 2 seats of the Senate contested in regular elections. Of these,21 were held by Republicans,and 12 by Democrats. The winners were elected to 6-year terms from January 3,2021,to January 3,2027. Two special elections for seats held by Republicans were also held in conjunction with the general elections:one in Arizona,to fill the vacancy created by John McCain's death in 2018;and one in Georgia,following Johnny Isakson's resignation in 2019. These elections ran concurrently with the 2020 United States presidential election in which incumbent president Donald Trump lost to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Martin O'Malley,the 61st Governor of Maryland,was formally launched on May 30,2015,as Governor O'Malley announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2016 presidential election. On February 1,2016,he suspended his campaign after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses.
This is a list of endorsements for declared candidates for the Democratic primaries for the 2016 United States presidential election.
Brian Best is an American businessman and politician currently serving in the Iowa House of Representatives from the 11th District. A Republican,he has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2015.
Abby Lea Finkenauer is an American politician who serves as the United States Special Envoy for Global Youth Issues within the U.S. Department of State since December 1,2022. Finkenauer previously served as the U.S. representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The 2018 United States Senate election in Wyoming took place on November 6,2018,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Wyoming. The primary election took place August 21,2018. Republican John Barrasso won re-election with 67% percent of the vote,the lowest percentage of his three U.S. Senate campaigns and the closest a Democrat has come to winning a seat since the 1996 election,and the first time since that election in which Democrats managed to even win counties in the state,those being Teton and Albany,and the first time that the Democratic candidate won any counties for this seat since 1994. Trauner was the first Democrat to win Teton county in a Senate contest since 1940,and the first ever losing Democrat to do so.
The 2018 Iowa gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018. Incumbent Republican governor Kim Reynolds ran for election to a full term,facing Democratic businessman Fred Hubbell,Libertarian Jake Porter,and independent candidate Gary Siegwarth.
Todd Prichard is a former Democratic member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 52nd district. Prichard was first elected in a January 22,2013 special election.
The 2018 Iowa House of Representative elections took place on November 6,2018,to elect representatives from all 100 districts. The winners of this will serve in 88th General Assembly,with apportioned among the states based on the 2010 United States census. The Republican Party retained control of the House,while losing a net gain of 5 seats to Democratic Party.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on November 8,2022,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 other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. These were the first congressional elections held in Iowa after the 2020 redistricting cycle.
Zachary Martin Nunn is an American politician and United States Air Force officer who has served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 3rd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he was a member of the Iowa Senate for the 15th district from 2019 to 2023 and the Iowa House of Representatives for the 30th district from 2015 to 2019.
