Chad Ingels

Chad Ingels

Republican Party

Candidate, Iowa House of Representatives District 68

Iowa House of Representatives District 68

Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

3

Predecessor: Molly Donahue (D)

Prior offices:

Iowa House of Representatives District 64

Years in office: 2021 - 2023

Predecessor: Bruce Bearinger (D)

Successor: Anne Osmundson (R)

Compensation

Base salary

$25,000/year

Per diem

$201/day for legislators who live outside of Polk County. $150.75/day for legislators who live within Polk County.

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 5, 2024

Next election

June 2, 2026

Education

Bachelor's

Iowa State University, 1991

Graduate

Iowa State University, 2013

Personal

Birthplace

Oelwein, IA

Profession

Business owner

Contact

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Chad Ingels (Republican Party) is a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, representing District 68. He assumed office on January 1, 2023. His current term ends on January 1, 2027.

Ingels (Republican Party) is running for re-election to the Iowa House of Representatives to represent District 68. He is on the ballot in the Republican primary on June 2, 2026.^[source]

Biography

Chad Ingels was born in Oelwein, Iowa. Ingels earned a B.S. in horticulture from Iowa State University and an M.A. in professional agriculture in 1991 and 2013, respectively. His career experience includes owning Ingels Agricultural Endeavors. Ingels has served on the West Central Community School Board, as the chairman of the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission, as the president of the Fayette County Farm Bureau, and as a youth sports coach.

Committee assignments

2025-2026

Ingels was assigned to the following committees:

• House Education Committee
• House Human Resources Committee
• Labor Committee
• House Veterans Affairs Committee

2023-2024

Ingels was assigned to the following committees:

• House Agriculture Committee
• Economic Growth Committee
• House Education Committee
• House Veterans Affairs Committee, Chair

2021-2022

Ingels was assigned to the following committees:

• House Agriculture Committee, Vice chair
• Economic Growth Committee
• House Education Committee
• Environmental Protection Committee

Sponsored legislation

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.

Elections

2026

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2026

General election

The primary will occur on June 2, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.

Democratic primary

Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 68

Scott Bodley (D) is running in the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 68 on June 2, 2026.

		Candidate
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Republican primary

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 68

Incumbent Chad Ingels (R) and Adam Thimmesch (R) are running in the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 68 on June 2, 2026.

		Candidate
		Chad Ingels
	Submit photo	Adam Thimmesch

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2024

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 68

Incumbent Chad Ingels defeated Tim O'Brien in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 68 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chad Ingels (R)	67.2	10,355
	Submit photo	Tim O'Brien (D)	32.7	5,037
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	14

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 15,406
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 68

Incumbent Chad Ingels advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 68 on June 4, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chad Ingels	99.0	1,190
		Other/Write-in votes	1.0	12

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,202
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Endorsements

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2022

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 68

Incumbent Chad Ingels won election in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 68 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chad Ingels (R)	98.4	9,902
		Other/Write-in votes	1.6	158

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 10,060
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 68

Incumbent Chad Ingels advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 68 on June 7, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chad Ingels	99.3	1,614
		Other/Write-in votes	0.7	11

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,625
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2020

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 64

Chad Ingels defeated Jodi Grover in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 64 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chad Ingels (R)	56.3	8,284
	Submit photo	Jodi Grover (D)	43.7	6,435
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	4

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 14,723
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Bruce Bearinger (D)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 64

Incumbent Bruce Bearinger advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 64 on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bruce Bearinger	90.5	1,979
		Other/Write-in votes	9.5	207

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,186
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 64

Chad Ingels advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 64 on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Chad Ingels	99.5	1,682
		Other/Write-in votes	0.5	9

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,691
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Vanessa Johnson (R)

2018

See also: Iowa Agriculture Commissioner election, 2018

General election

General election for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture

Incumbent Mike Naig defeated Tim Gannon and Rick Stewart in the general election for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Mike Naig (R)	50.4	651,552
		Tim Gannon (D)	46.6	602,916
		Rick Stewart (L)	3.0	38,965
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	597

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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture

Tim Gannon advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture on June 5, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tim Gannon	100.0	148,258

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture

Incumbent Mike Naig defeated Dan Zumbach, Craig Lang, Ray Gaesser, and Chad Ingels in the Republican primary for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture on June 5, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Mike Naig	34.8	30,870
		Dan Zumbach	21.4	18,938
	Submit photo	Craig Lang	18.6	16,514
	Submit photo	Ray Gaesser	16.3	14,437
		Chad Ingels	8.9	7,915

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 88,674
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2026

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2024

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2022

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2020

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Campaign finance summary

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Chad Ingels campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024	Iowa House of Representatives District 68	Won general	$50,082	$48,233
2022	Iowa House of Representatives District 68	Won general	$35,816	$33,337
2020	Iowa House of Representatives District 64	Won general	$430,794	N/A**
Grand total			$516,692	$81,570
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Election Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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Below you can find the scorecards found for the Iowa General Assembly in 2024.

• Club for Growth Foundation — Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to economic issues.
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• National Federation of Independent Business — Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to business issues.

Below you can find the scorecards found for the Iowa General Assembly in 2023.

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• National Federation of Independent Business — Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to business issues.

Below you can find the scorecards found for the Iowa General Assembly in 2021.

• Club for Growth Foundation — Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to economic issues.
• Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO — Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to labor issues.
• The American Conservative Union — Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by Molly Donahue (D)	Iowa House of Representatives District 68 2023-Present	Succeeded by -
Preceded by Bruce Bearinger (D)	Iowa House of Representatives District 64 2021-2023	Succeeded by Anne Osmundson (R)

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Current members of the Iowa House of Representatives

Leadership

Majority Leader:Bobby Kaufmann

Minority Leader:Brian Meyer

Representatives

District 1

J.D. Scholten (D)

District 2

Robert Henderson (R)

District 3

Thomas Jeneary (R)

District 4

Skyler Wheeler (R)

District 5

Zach Dieken (R)

District 6

Megan Jones (R)

District 7

Wendy Larson (R)

District 8

Ann Meyer (R)

District 9

Henry Stone (R)

District 10

John Wills (R)

District 11

Craig Williams (R)

District 12

Steven Holt (R)

District 13

Travis Sitzmann (R)

District 14

Jacob Bossman (R)

District 15

Matt Windschitl (R)

District 16

David Sieck (R)

District 17

Devon Wood (R)

District 18

Tom Moore (R)

District 19

Brent Siegrist (R)

District 20

Josh Turek (D)

District 21

Brooke Boden (R)

District 22

Samantha Fett (R)

District 23

Ray Sorensen (R)

District 24

Sam Wengryn (R)

District 25

Hans Wilz (R)

District 26

Austin Harris (R)

District 27

Kenan Judge (D)

District 28

David Young (R)

District 29

Brian Meyer (D)

District 30

Megan Srinivas (D)

District 31

Mary Madison (D)

District 32

Jennifer Konfrst (D)

District 33

Ruth Gaines (D)

District 34

Rob Johnson (D)

District 35

Sean Bagniewski (D)

District 36

Austin Baeth (D)

District 37

Barb McCulla (R)

District 38

Jon Dunwell (R)

District 39

Rick Olson (D)

District 40

Bill Gustoff (R)

District 41

Ryan Weldon (R)

District 42

Heather Matson (D)

District 43

Eddie Andrews (R)

District 44

Larry McBurney (D)

District 45

Brian Lohse (R)

District 46

Dan Gehlbach (R)

District 47

Carter Nordman (R)

District 48

Chad Behn (R)

District 49

Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D)

District 50

Ross Wilburn (D)

District 51

Brett Barker (R)

District 52

David Blom (R)

District 53

Dean Fisher (R)

District 54

Joshua Meggers (R)

District 55

Shannon Latham (R)

District 56

Mark Thompson (R)

District 57

Pat Grassley (R)

District 58

Charley Thomson (R)

District 59

Christian Hermanson (R)

District 60

Jane Bloomingdale (R)

District 61

Timi Brown-Powers (D)

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Jerome Amos (D)

District 63

Michael Bergan (R)

District 64

Jason Gearhart (R)

District 65

Shannon Lundgren (R)

District 66

Steven Bradley (R)

District 67

Craig Johnson (R)

District 68

Chad Ingels (R)

District 69

Tom Determann (R)

District 70

Norlin Mommsen (R)

District 71

Lindsay James (D)

District 72

Jennifer Smith (R)

District 73

Elizabeth Wilson (D)

District 74

Eric Gjerde (D)

District 75

Bob Kressig (D)

District 76

Derek Wulf (R)

District 77

Jeff Cooling (D)

District 78

Angel Ramirez (D)

District 79

Tracy Ehlert (D)

District 80

Aime Wichtendahl (D)

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Daniel Gosa (D)

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Bobby Kaufmann (R)

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Cindy Golding (R)

District 84

Thomas Gerhold (R)

District 85

Amy Nielsen (D)

District 86

David Jacoby (D)

District 87

Jeff Shipley (R)

District 88

Helena Hayes (R)

District 89

Elinor Levin (D)

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Adam Zabner (D)

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Judd Lawler (R)

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Heather Hora (R)

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Gary Mohr (R)

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Mike Vondran (R)

District 95

Taylor Collins (R)

District 96

Mark Cisneros (R)

District 97

Ken Croken (D)

District 98

Monica Kurth (D)

District 99

Matthew Rinker (R)

District 100

Blaine Watkins (R)

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