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1982 general · November 2, 1982

1982 Iowa election results

Every race on Iowa's ballot in the 1982 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races136
Changed party0
Unopposed15%21 races
Incumbents defeated13

Governors

R 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
IowaTerry E. Branstad (R)6.3

U.S. House

D 3 · R 3

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
IA-1James Leach (R)18.4
IA-2Thomas Tauke (R)17.7
IA-3Cooper Evans (R)10.9
IA-4Neal Smith (D)32.4
IA-5Tom Harkin (D)17.7
IA-6Berkley Bedell (D)28.6

Iowa State Senate

D 16 · R 13

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Milo Colton (D)21.1Incumbent lost
SD-2Donald V. Doyle (D)3.6Incumbent lost
SD-3Douglas Ritsema (R)94.1
SD-5Arne Waldstein (R)3.8
SD-6Lee Holt (R)3.3
SD-7C. Joseph Coleman (D)12.4
SD-9Ray Taylor (R)10.4
SD-11John W. Jensen (R)Unopposed
SD-13Thomas A. Lind (R)6.8
SD-15Arthur L. Gratias (R)15.0
SD-16Dale L. Tieden (R)Unopposed
SD-17Joe Welsh (D)Unopposed
SD-19Norman J. Goodwin (R)16.4
SD-21Patrick J. Deluhery (D)26.0
SD-23Arthur A. Small Jr. (D)28.4
SD-24Hurley W. Hall (D)12.9
SD-25Wally E. Horn (D)12.8
SD-27Joe Brown (D)5.5
SD-29Jack Rife (R)10.3
SD-31Lowell L. Junkins (D)Unopposed
SD-33Don Gettings (D)10.2Incumbent lost
SD-35Bill Dieleman (D)17.7
SD-37Charles Bruner (D)27.1
SD-39William D. Palmer (D)13.5
SD-41Julia B. Gentleman (R)14.3
SD-43Tom Mann (D)13.9
SD-45Norman Rodgers (D)14.4
SD-47Calvin O. Hultman (R)21.0
SD-49Jack W. Hester (R)9.4

Iowa House of Representatives

D 60 · R 40

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Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse); Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab