Political party strength in Iowa
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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[1] | 42R, 30D[2] | |||||||||
| 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[3] | |||||||||
| 1875 | 8R, 1D | ||||||||||||
| 1876 | Samuel J. Kirkwood (R)[4] | 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)[5] | 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.[6] | |||||||||
| 1891 | William M. McFarland (R) | 6D, 5R | |||||||||||
| 1892 | Samuel L. Bestow (D) | 25D, 24R, 1P[7] | 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)[4] | 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[8] | 82R, 18D[9] | |||||||||||
| 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)[5] | 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 J. 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[10] | 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[11] | 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)[12] | 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)[5] | 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) | 35R, 15D | 78R, 30D | Jack Miller (R) | 6R, 2D | ||||||
| L. B. Liddy (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1962 | |||||||||||||
| 1963 | Harold E. Hughes (D)[4] | 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 (D) | Kenneth E Owen (D) | 34D, 25R | 101D, 23R | 6D, 1R | ||||
| 1966 | |||||||||||||
| 1967 | Melvin D. Synhorst (R)[13] | 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. Fulton (D)[5] | vacant | Maurice E. Baringer (R) | 44R, 17D | 86R, 38D | Harold E. Hughes (D) | |||||||
| Robert D. Ray (R) | Roger Jepsen (R) | ||||||||||||
| 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 | Mary Jane Odell (R) | Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (R) | |||||||||||
| 1981 | 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 | |||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ The Iowa Constitution of 1857 moved the elections for state legislators from even years to odd years, making the 6th General Assembly only last one year in 1857 and the 7th last for two starting in 1858, and having the terms of newly elected or current senators last only three years.
- ↑ The Iowa Constitution of 1857 moved the elections for state legislators from even years to odd years, making the 6th General Assembly only last one year in 1857 and the 7th last for two starting in 1858, and having the terms of past or current representatives correspond to the duration of both.
- ↑ After 137 ballots, the Republicans and the Independent Anti-Monopolists with the Democrats, struck a deal on the evening of the 22nd of January, 1874. The Republicans controlled the Speakership under John H. Gear, but the Anti-Monopolists and Democrats controlled most of the minor offices, all standing committees' membership were split 50-50 including dual chairmem, and the investigation committees were run and led by the Anti-Monopolist coalition. p. 42-43 p. 47-53
- 1 2 3 Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
- 1 2 3 4 As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
- ↑ After 137 ballots, the Republicans and Democrats came to an agreement where the Democrats got the Speakership under John T. Hamilton, while the Republicans got the seat of Speaker pro Tempore, and the committees and minor offices were split. p. 82-88 p. 43-44
- ↑ With a Democratic Lt. Governor in Samuel L. Bestow who was also President of the Senate, the Democrats had the tie breaking vote and were able to choose M.J. Kelly as President Pro Tempore and organize the chamber. p. 59
- ↑ A constitutional amendment in 1905 moved the elections for state legislators from odd years to even years, making the 31st General Assembly only last one year, and the terms of newly elected or current senators last only three years.
- ↑ A constitutional amendment in 1905 moved the elections for state legislators from odd years to even years, making the 31st General Assembly only last one year, and the terms of newly elected representatives last only one year but the ones elected in 1906 be two years.
- ↑ The Republicans acquiesced to a Democratic President Pro Tempore, Irving H. Knudson, by unanimous consent. The Senate itself was organized on mostly bi-partisan lines. p. 4-5, 74-77
- ↑ A Republican voted with the Democrats to elect a Democratic Speaker, LaMar Foster. Democrats were thus able to organize and control the House. p. 24-25
- ↑ Died in office.
- ↑ Resigned.
See also
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