Elections archive

Every Iowa election since 1968

Iowa's generals, primaries, specials and runoffs in the 99chambers archive, newest first: Congress, governor, statewide offices and the Iowa legislature.

Races4,211
Changed party302
Unopposed22%877 races
Incumbents defeated274

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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); English Wikipedia; Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab