2010Flipped from DemocraticFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
2010 election for Iowa Senate District 9
Iowa State Senate · Iowa
Bill Dix (R) won with 57.8% of the vote, defeating Bill Heckroth (D) by 15.7 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Bill DixRepublican · winner
57.8%13,189
Bill HeckrothDemocrat · incumbent
42.1%9,605
22,816 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 2010
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET