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United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 2024
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2024 U.S. House Elections |
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Iowa were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected four candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's four U.S. House districts. The primary was June 4, 2024. The filing deadline was March 15, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Iowa -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Republican Party | 4 | 4 | |
| Total | 4 | 4 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Christina Bohannan (Democratic Party)
- Nicholas Gluba (Libertarian Party) (Write-in)
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Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Incumbent) ✔
- David Pautsch
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District 2
General election candidates
- Ashley Hinson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Sarah Corkery (Democratic Party)
- Jody Madlom Puffett (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Ashley Hinson (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
General election candidates
- Zach Nunn (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Lanon Baccam (Democratic Party)
- Marco Battaglia (Libertarian Party) (Write-in)
Democratic primary candidates
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- Zach Nunn (Incumbent) ✔
District 4
General election candidates
- Randy Feenstra (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Ryan Melton (Democratic Party)
- Charles Aldrich (Libertarian Party) (Write-in)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Randy Feenstra (Incumbent) ✔
- Kevin Virgil
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Iowa
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Iowa's 1st Congressional District
- Iowa's 2nd Congressional District
- Iowa's 3rd Congressional District
- Iowa's 4th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Iowa in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Iowa, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Iowa | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | 1,726, including at least 47 signatures from ½ of the counties in the district | N/A | 3/15/2024 | Source |
| Iowa | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 1,726, including at least 47 signatures from ½ of the counties in the district | N/A | 8/24/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Iowa.
| Iowa U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 37.5% | 2 | 50.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2020 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 50.0% | 1 | 33.3% | ||||
| 2018 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 50.0% | 1 | 25.0% | ||||
| 2016 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 50.0% | 2 | 50.0% | ||||
| 2014 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 50.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Iowa in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 19, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Eleven candidates ran for Iowa’s four U.S. House districts, including five Democrats and six Republicans. That’s 2.75 candidates per district, higher than the 2.5 candidates per district in 2022 but lower than the 4.5 candidates per district in 2020.
No seats were open in 2024, meaning all incumbents ran for re-election. One House seat was open in 2020, and two were open in 2014, the only two years this decade in which House seats were open.
Three congressional districts—the 1st, the 3rd, and the 4th—were tied for the most candidates running for a seat in Iowa in 2024. Three candidates ran in each district.
Three primaries—one Democratic and two Republican—were contested in 2024. That’s more than the one primary that was contested in 2022 but less than the four primaries that were contested in 2020.
Two incumbents—Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-1) and Randy Feenstra (R-4)—were in contested primaries, tying with 2016 for the most this decade.
Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.
| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Iowa, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Iowa's 1st | Mariannette Miller-Meeks |  Republican |
R+3 |
| Iowa's 2nd | Ashley Hinson | Republican |
R+4 |
| Iowa's 3rd | Zach Nunn | Republican |
R+3 |
| Iowa's 4th | Randy Feenstra | Republican |
R+16 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Iowa[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
|
Donald Trump
| ||
| Iowa's 1st | 47.6% | 50.5% | ||
| Iowa's 2nd | 46.9% | 51.3% | ||
| Iowa's 3rd | 48.9% | 49.3% | ||
| Iowa's 4th | 36.2% | 62.2% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Iowa's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Iowa | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 4 | 6 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Iowa's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Iowa, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Kim Reynolds
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| Lieutenant Governor | Adam Gregg
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| Secretary of State | Paul Pate
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| Attorney General | Brenna Bird
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State legislature
Iowa State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 16 | |
| Republican Party | 34 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | |
Iowa House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 36 | |
| Republican Party | 64 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Iowa Party Control: 1992-2024
Four years of Democratic trifectas • Ten years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | S | S | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
