Political party strength in Iowa facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Iowa:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Auditor
- State Treasurer
- Secretary of Agriculture
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Democratic (D), Republican (R), Free Soil (FS), and Whig (W).
Year | Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||||
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Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Sec. of Ag. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
1846 | Ansel Briggs (D) | Elisha Cutler Jr. (D) | 12D, 6W | 23W, 17D | 2D | ||||||||
1847 | George W. Jones (D) | Augustus C. Dodge (D) | |||||||||||
1848 | Josiah H. Bonney (D) | Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler (D) | |||||||||||
1849 | 11D, 8W | 28D, 11W | 1D, 1W | ||||||||||
1850 | George W. McClearly (D) | ||||||||||||
1851 | Stephen P. Hempstead (D) | 13D, 5W | 34D, 5W | 2D | |||||||||
1852 | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) | ||||||||||||
1853 | David C. Cloud (D) | 20D, 11W | 40D, 23W | 1D, 1W | |||||||||
1854 | |||||||||||||
1855 | James W. Grimes (W) | 17D, 14W | 40W, 31D | James Harlan (FS) | |||||||||
1856 | Elijah Sells (R) | Samuel Allen Rice (R) | John C. Frémont and William L. Dayton (R) | ||||||||||
1857 | 23R, 12D | 44R, 26D | James Harlan (R) | 2R | |||||||||
1858 | Ralph P. Lowe (R) | Oran Faville (R) | 22R, 14D | 42R, 30D | |||||||||
1859 | James W. Grimes (R) | ||||||||||||
1860 | Samuel J. Kirkwood (R) | Nicholas J. Rusch (R) | 23R, 20D | 49R, 37D | Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (R) | ||||||||
1861 | Charles C. Nourse (R) | ||||||||||||
1862 | John R. Needham (R) | 32R, 14D | 60R, 34D | ||||||||||
1863 | James Wright (R) | 6R | |||||||||||
1864 | William M. Stone (R) | Enoch W. Eastman (R) | 42R, 4D | 87R, 5D | Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (NU) | ||||||||
1865 | Isaac L. Allen (R) | Samuel J. Kirkwood (R) | |||||||||||
1866 | Benjamin F. Gue (R) | Frederick E. Bissell (R) | 42R, 5D | 83R, 15D | |||||||||
1867 | Ed Wright (R) | Henry O'Connor (R) | James Harlan (R) | ||||||||||
1868 | Samuel Merrill (R) | John Scott (R) | 42R, 7D | 86R, 14D | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) | ||||||||
1869 | |||||||||||||
1870 | Madison Miner Walden (R) | 43R, 7D | James B. Howell (R) | ||||||||||
1871 | Henry C. Bulis (R) | George G. Wright (R) | |||||||||||
1872 | Cyrus C. Carpenter (R) | Marsena E. Cutts (R) | 42R, 8D | 78R, 22D | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | ||||||||
1873 | Josiah T. Young (R) | William B. Allison (R) | 9R | ||||||||||
1874 | Joseph Dysart (R) | Buren R. Sherman (R) | 34R, 10I, 6D | 50R, 44I, 6D | |||||||||
1875 | 8R, 1D | ||||||||||||
1876 | Samuel J. Kirkwood (R) | Joshua G. Newbold (R) | 41R, 9D | 70R, 30D | Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R) | ||||||||
1877 | John F. McJunkin (R) | Samuel J. Kirkwood (R) | 9R | ||||||||||
Joshua G. Newbold (R) | vacant | ||||||||||||
1878 | John H. Gear (R) | Frank T. Campbell (R) | 38R, 12D | 73R, 25D, 2G | |||||||||
1879 | John A. T. Hull (R) | 7R, 2G | |||||||||||
1880 | 41R, 7D, 2G | 82R, 14D, 4G | James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (R) | ||||||||||
1881 | Smith McPherson (R) | William V. Lucas (R) | Edwin H. Conger (R) | James W. McDill (R) | 9R | ||||||||
1882 | Buren R. Sherman (R) | Orlando H. Manning (R) | 46R, 2D, 2G | 71R, 22D, 7G | |||||||||
1883 | James F. Wilson (R) | 8R, 2D, 1G | |||||||||||
1884 | 39R, 11D | 52R, 42D, 6G | 6R, 4D, 1G | James G. Blaine and John A. Logan (R) | |||||||||
1885 | Frank D. Jackson (R) | Andrew J. Baker (R) | Voltaire P. Twombly (R) | 7R, 2D, 1G | |||||||||
1886 | William Larrabee (R) | John A. T. Hull (R) | 31R, 19D | 60R, 39D, 1I | |||||||||
1887 | 8R, 1D, 1G, 1Ind.R | ||||||||||||
1888 | 35R, 15D | 64R, 33D, 3I | Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) | ||||||||||
1889 | John Y. Stone (R) | 10R, 1D | |||||||||||
1890 | Horace Boies (D) | Alfred N. Poyneer (R) | 28R, 20D, 1 Union Lab., 1I | 50D, 45R, 4I, 1 Union Lab. | |||||||||
1891 | William M. McFarland (R) | 6D, 5R | |||||||||||
1892 | Samuel L. Bestow (D) | 25D, 24R, 1P | 54R, 45D, 1I | Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R) | |||||||||
1893 | 10R, 1D | ||||||||||||
1894 | Frank D. Jackson (R) | Warren S. Dungan (R) | 34R, 16D | 79R, 21D | |||||||||
1895 | Milton Remley (R) | John H. Gear (R) | 11R | ||||||||||
1896 | Francis M. Drake (R) | Matt Parrott (R) | 43R, 7D | 80R, 20D | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) | ||||||||
1897 | George L. Dobson (R) | ||||||||||||
1898 | Leslie M. Shaw (R) | James C. Milliman (R) | 39R, 11D | 62R, 38D | |||||||||
1899 | |||||||||||||
1900 | 42R, 8D | 81R, 19D | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | ||||||||||
1901 | William B. Martin (R) | Charles W. Mullan (R) | Frank Merriam (R) | Jonathan P. Dolliver (R) | |||||||||
1902 | Albert B. Cummins (R) | John Herriott (R) | 39R, 11D | 84R, 16D | |||||||||
1903 | Beryl F. Carroll (R) | 10R, 1D | |||||||||||
1904 | 42R, 8D | 78R, 22D | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | ||||||||||
1905 | 11R | ||||||||||||
1906 | 40R, 10D | 82R, 18D | |||||||||||
1907 | Warren Garst (R) | William C. Hayward (R) | John F. Riggs | 36R, 14D | 75R, 33D | 10R, 1D | |||||||
1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | ||||||||||||
Warren Garst (R) | vacant | ||||||||||||
1909 | Beryl F. Carroll (R) | George W. Clarke (R) | Howard Webster Byers (R) | 34R, 16D | 80R, 28D | Albert B. Cummins (R) | |||||||
1910 | Lafayette Young (R) | ||||||||||||
1911 | George Cosson (R) | 70R, 38D | |||||||||||
1912 | William S. Kenyon (R) | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | |||||||||||
1913 | George W. Clarke (R) | William L. Harding (R) | William S. Allen (R) | 33R, 17D | 66R, 42D | 8R, 3D | |||||||
1914 | |||||||||||||
1915 | 35R, 15D | 76R, 32D | 10R, 1D | ||||||||||
1916 | Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | ||||||||||||
1917 | William L. Harding (R) | Ernest Robert Moore (R) | H. M. Havner (R) | 40R, 10D | 94R, 14D | 11R | |||||||
1918 | |||||||||||||
1919 | W. C. Ramsay (R) | 45R, 5D | 93R, 15D | ||||||||||
1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | ||||||||||||
1921 | N. E. Kendall (R) | John Hammill (R) | Ben Gibson (R) | 48R, 2D | 101R, 6D, 1I | ||||||||
1922 | Smith W. Brookhart (R) | ||||||||||||
1923 | 46R, 4D | 91R, 16D, 1I | |||||||||||
1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | ||||||||||||
1925 | John Hammill (R) | Clem F. Kimball (R) | 45R, 4D, 1I | 101R, 7D | |||||||||
1926 | Daniel F. Steck (D) | ||||||||||||
1927 | John Fletcher (R) | 48R, 1D, 1ID | 95R, 13D | Smith W. Brookhart (R) | |||||||||
1928 | Arch W. McFarlane (R) | Ed M. Smith (R) | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | ||||||||||
1929 | 48R, 2D | 96R, 12D | |||||||||||
1930 | |||||||||||||
1931 | Daniel Webster Turner (R) | G. C. Greenwalt (R) | 44R, 6D | 71R, 37D | Lester J. Dickinson (R) | 10R, 1D | |||||||
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | ||||||||||||
1933 | Clyde L. Herring (D) | Nelson G. Kraschel (D) | Ola Babcock Miller (D) | Edward L. O'Connor (D) | 25D, 25R | 76D, 32R | Richard L. Murphy (D) | 6D, 3R | |||||
1934 | |||||||||||||
1935 | 28D, 22R | 58D, 50R | |||||||||||
1936 | |||||||||||||
1937 | Nelson G. Kraschel (D) | John K. Valentine (D) | Robert E. O'Brien (D) | John H. Mitchell (D) | 54D, 54R | Clyde L. Herring (D) | Guy Mark Gillette (D) | 5D, 4R | |||||
1938 | |||||||||||||
1939 | George A. Wilson (R) | Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R) | Earl G. Miller (R) | Fred D. Everett (R) | C. B. (Chet) Akers (R) | W. G. C. Bagley (R) | 38R, 12D | 89R, 19D | 7R, 2D | ||||
1940 | Wendell Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) | ||||||||||||
1941 | John M. Rankin (R) | 45R, 5D | 87R, 21D | ||||||||||
1942 | 8R, 1D | ||||||||||||
1943 | Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R) | Robert D. Blue (R) | Wayne N. Ropes (R) | 98R, 10D | George A. Wilson (R) | 8R | |||||||
1944 | Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker (R) | ||||||||||||
1945 | Robert D. Blue (R) | Kenneth A. Evans (R) | 91R, 17D | Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R) | |||||||||
1946 | |||||||||||||
1947 | Rolo H. Bergeson (R) | Robert L. Larson (R) | 44R, 6D | 98R, 10D | |||||||||
1948 | Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley (D) | ||||||||||||
1949 | William S. Beardsley (R) | Melvin D. Synhorst (R) | 43R, 7D | 79R, 29D | Guy Gillette (D) | ||||||||
1950 | Clyde Spry (R) | ||||||||||||
1951 | William H. Nicholas (R) | M. L. Abrahamson (R) | 41R, 9D | 93R, 15D | |||||||||
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | ||||||||||||
1953 | Leo Elthon (R) | Leo Hoegh (R) | 46R, 4D | 105R, 3D | |||||||||
1954 | |||||||||||||
Leo Elthon (R) | vacant | ||||||||||||
1955 | Leo Hoegh (R) | Leo Elthon (R) | Dayton Countryman (R) | 44R, 6D | 90R, 18D | Thomas E. Martin (R) | |||||||
1956 | |||||||||||||
1957 | Herschel C. Loveless (D) | William H. Nicholas (R) | Norman A. Erbe (R) | 40R, 10D | 71R, 37D | 7R, 1D | |||||||
1958 | |||||||||||||
1959 | Edward J. McManus (D) | 33R, 17D | 58R, 50D | 4D, 4R | |||||||||
1960 | 5R, 3D | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) | |||||||||||
1961 | Norman A. Erbe (R) | W. L. Mooty (D) | Evan Hultman (R) | L. B. Liddy (R) | 35R, 15D | 78R, 30D | Jack Miller (R) | 6R, 2D | |||||
1962 | |||||||||||||
1963 | Harold E. Hughes (D) | 38R, 12D | 6R, 1D | ||||||||||
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | ||||||||||||
1965 | Robert D. Fulton (D) | Gary L. Cameron (D) | Lawrence F. Scalise (D) | Lorne R Worthington (D) | Paul Franzenburg (R) | Kenneth E Owen (D) | 34D, 25R | 101D, 23R | 6D, 1R | ||||
1966 | |||||||||||||
1967 | Melvin D. Synhorst (R) | Richard C. Turner (R) | Lloyd R. Smith (R) | L. B. Liddy (R) | 32D, 29R | 89R, 35D | 5R, 2D | ||||||
1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | ||||||||||||
1969 | Robert D. Ray (R) | Roger Jepsen (R) | Maurice E. Baringer (R) | 44R, 17D | 86R, 38D | Harold E. Hughes (D) | |||||||
1970 | |||||||||||||
1971 | 38R, 12D | 63R, 37D | |||||||||||
1972 | |||||||||||||
1973 | Arthur A. Neu (R) | Robert H. Lounsberry (R) | 28R, 22D | 57R, 43D | Dick Clark (D) | 3D, 3R | |||||||
1974 | |||||||||||||
1975 | 26D, 24R | 61D, 39R | John Culver (D) | 5D, 1R | |||||||||
1976 | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) | ||||||||||||
1977 | 59D, 41R | 4D, 2R | |||||||||||
1978 | |||||||||||||
1979 | Terry Branstad (R) | Tom Miller (D) | Richard D. Johnson (R) | 28R, 22D | 57R, 43D | Roger Jepsen (R) | 3D, 3R | ||||||
1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | ||||||||||||
1981 | Mary Jane Odell (R) | 29R, 21D | 58R, 42D | Chuck Grassley (R) | |||||||||
1982 | |||||||||||||
1983 | Terry Branstad (R) | Robert T. Anderson (D) | Michael Fitzgerald (D) | 28D, 22R | 60D, 40R | ||||||||
1984 | |||||||||||||
1985 | 29D, 21D | Tom Harkin (D) | 4R, 2D | ||||||||||
1986 | |||||||||||||
1987 | Jo Ann Zimmerman (D) | Elaine Baxter (D) | Dale M. Cochran (D) | 30D, 20R | 58D, 42R | ||||||||
1988 | Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen (D) | ||||||||||||
1989 | 61D, 39R | ||||||||||||
1990 | |||||||||||||
1991 | Joy Corning (R) | Bonnie J. Campbell (D) | 28D, 22R | 53D, 47R | |||||||||
1992 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | ||||||||||||
1993 | 26D, 24R | 51R, 49D | 4R, 1D | ||||||||||
1994 | |||||||||||||
1995 | Paul Pate (R) | Tom Miller (D) | 27D, 23R | 64R, 36D | 5R | ||||||||
1996 | |||||||||||||
1997 | 29R, 21D | 54R, 46D | 4R, 1D | ||||||||||
1998 | |||||||||||||
1999 | Tom Vilsack (D) | Sally Pederson (D) | Chet Culver (D) | Patty Judge (D) | 30R, 20D | 56R, 44D | |||||||
2000 | Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) | ||||||||||||
2001 | |||||||||||||
2002 | |||||||||||||
2003 | David A. Vaudt (R) | 29R, 21D | 54R, 46D | ||||||||||
2004 | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) | ||||||||||||
2005 | 25D, 25R | 51R, 49D | |||||||||||
2006 | |||||||||||||
2007 | Chet Culver (D) | Patty Judge (D) | Michael Mauro (D) | Bill Northey (R) | 30D, 20R | 54D, 46R | 3D, 2R | ||||||
2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) | ||||||||||||
2009 | 32D, 18R | 57D, 43R | |||||||||||
2010 | |||||||||||||
2011 | Terry Branstad (R) | Kim Reynolds (R) | Matt Schultz (R) | 26D, 24R | 60R, 40D | ||||||||
2012 | |||||||||||||
2013 | 53R, 46D, 1 vacancy | 2D, 2R | |||||||||||
Mary Mosiman (R) | |||||||||||||
2014 | 53R, 47D | ||||||||||||
2015 | Paul Pate (R) | 57R, 43D | Joni Ernst (R) | 3R, 1D | |||||||||
2016 | Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) | ||||||||||||
2017 | 29R, 20D, 1I | 59R, 41D | |||||||||||
Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Sec. of Ag. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress |
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