Todd Taylor

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House District 54 elections (2000 2018)
Todd Taylor
Iowa State Senator Todd Taylor.jpg
Member of the Iowa Senate
from the 40th district
Assumed office
January 14, 2019 [1]
ElectionPolitical resultCandidatePartyVotes%
Iowa House of Representatives special elections, 1995  [3]
District 54
Turnout: 4,924
Democratic hold Todd Taylor Democratic 2,75656.0
Steve Buhr Republican 2,06842.0
Rosanne Freeburg Independent 941.9
Iowa House of Representatives elections, 1996  [4]
District 54
Turnout: 13,007
Democratic hold Todd Taylor* Democratic 7,23655.6
Steve Buhr Republican 5,75944.3
Iowa House of Representatives elections, 1998  [5]
District 54
Turnout: 10,422
Democratic hold Todd Taylor* Democratic 6,12058.7
Rick Kullander Republican 4,29241.2
Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2000  [6]
District 54
Democratic hold Todd Taylor* Democratic unopposed
ElectionPolitical resultCandidatePartyVotes%
Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2002  [7]
District 70
Turnout: 10,766
Democratic (newly redistricted) Todd Taylor* Democratic 6,16457.3
Charles H. Wieneke Republican 4,59042.6
Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2004  [8]
District 70
Democratic hold Todd Taylor* Democratic unopposed
Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2006   [9]
District 70
Turnout: 10,929
Democratic hold Todd Taylor* Democratic 7,31266.9
David Gochenouer Republican 3,60833.0
Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2008   [10]
District 70
Democratic hold Todd Taylor* Democratic unopposed
Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2010   [11]
District 70
Turnout: 10,771
Democratic hold Todd Taylor* Democratic 5,95955.3
Jim Burke Republican 4,24639.4


ElectionPolitical resultCandidatePartyVotes%
Iowa State Senate elections, 2018   [12]
District 35
Democratic hold Todd Taylor Democratic unopposed

Voting record

In the 2017 legislative session, Taylor voted against [13] a $638,000 cut to the Department of Veterans Affairs and Iowa Veterans Home. [14]

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