Iowa State Senate elections, 2024
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| 2024 Iowa Senate Elections | |
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| Primary | June 4, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Iowa State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was June 4, 2024. The filing deadline was March 15, 2024.
Following the election, Republicans gained a 35-15 veto-proof majority.
Before the election, Democrats needed to maintain their Senate seats or lose fewer than three House seats to prevent a Republican legislative veto-proof majority. Republicans needed to gain at least one Senate seat and at least three House seats to attain a Republican legislative veto-proof majority.
The Iowa State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 16 | 16 | |
| Republican Party | 33 | 34 | |
| Total | 50 | 50 | |
Candidates
General election
Iowa State Senate general election 2024 |
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David Davis (Libertarian Party) |
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| District 10 |
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| District 12 |
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| District 14 |
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| District 16 |
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Joshua Smith (Libertarian Party) |
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| District 18 |
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| District 20 |
Nate Boulton (i) |
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Brad Zaun (i) |
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| District 26 |
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| District 28 |
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| District 30 |
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| District 32 |
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| District 34 |
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| District 36 |
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| District 38 |
Eric Giddens (i) |
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| District 44 |
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Lisa Ossian (Independent) |
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| District 46 |
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| District 48 |
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| District 50 |
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Primary
Iowa State Senate primary 2024 |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 4 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 6 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 8 |
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| District 10 |
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| District 12 |
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| District 14 |
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| District 16 |
The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 18 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 20 |
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| District 22 |
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| District 24 |
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| District 26 |
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| District 28 |
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| District 30 |
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| District 32 |
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| District 34 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 38 |
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| District 40 |
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| District 42 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Iowa
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
Three incumbents lost in general elections. Between 2010 and 2022, the average number of incumbents defeated in the general elections was 2.9.
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Nate Boulton | District 20 | |
| Brad Zaun | District 22 | |
| Eric Giddens | District 38 |
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. This election cycle continued a streak of no primary election losses since 2012.
Retiring incumbents
Three incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] The average number of retirements per election cycle from 2010 to 2022 was six. Those incumbents were:
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Jeff Edler | District 26 | |
| Pam Jochum | District 36 | |
| Todd Taylor | District 40 |
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Iowa. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Iowa in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 10, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
There were 125 state legislative seats up for election this year in Iowa. Across those, 16 incumbents (three in the Senate and 13 in the House) did not file to run for re-election. From 2010 to 2022, the average number of retirements per cycle was 22. In 2022, 40 incumbents (11 in the Senate and 29 in the House) did not run for re-election.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Iowa Code, "Title II, Section 43.24," accessed February 28, 2025
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Iowa Code, "Title II, Section 44.4," accessed February 28, 2025
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Iowa Secretary of State, "Candidate’s Guide to the Primary Election 2024," June 4, 2024 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Iowa Secretary of State Website, "Forming a Political Party in Iowa," accessed February 28, 2025
- ↑ "Iowa Constitution," accessed December 16, 2013
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ JUSTIA US Law, "Iowa Code, Section 39.8 - Term of office," accessed November 1, 2021
- ↑ Iowa Secretary of State, "Terms of Offices for Elected Officials," accessed November 1, 2021
