Senate District 48 Registration: D 12220, R 13068, N 17711, total 43047, R +848 No Incumbent; Contested Republican primary. House District 95 Registration: D 6981, R 6722, N 8525, total 22267, D +259 Open seat: incumbent Nate Willems, D-Lisbon running ... »
Senate District 40 Registration: D 11309, R 16838, N 14388, total 42561, R +5529 Open seat; Tom Rielly, D-Oskaloosa, retiring Sorry, Dems, but this one's gone. Even if Rielly had stayed in the race, it was probably gone. It's the seventh most Republica... »
Senate District 37 Registration: D 16602, R 11168, N 15371, total 43197, D +5434 Incumbent: Bob Dvorsky, D-Coralville; holdover seat A new point on the compass for Bob Dvorsky. He was first elected to the House in 1986 in a seat that went west to Iowa ... »
Senate District 35 Registration: D 16603, R 9518, N 15911, total 42083, D +7085 Incumbent: Wally Horn, D-Cedar Rapids; holdover seat Horn is Iowa's senior legislator (Jack Kibbie served earlier, but was out for two decades and has served less total tim... »
Senate District 34 Registration: D 12855, R 14159, N 16582, total 43648, R +1304 Incumbent: Liz Mathis, D-Cedar Rapids It was a genius move by Terry Branstad: since he was required to name a Democrat to the state utility board anyway, he went to the Se... »
Senate District 33 Registration: D 17006, R 11831, N 14886, total 43789, D +5175 Incumbent: Rob Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids; holdover seat Hogg picked up a newly configured House seat in 2002, overcoming a serious GOP effort by former city official Don Palmer... »
Senate District 14 Registration: D 12402, R 13845, N 15503, total 41776, R +1443 Open Seat; Paul McKinley, R-Chariton, retiring. Contested primaries in both parties. Sure, the leadership challenge ahead of the anticipated loss in the Marion special sen... »
Well, that Last Minute Retirement Watch post seems to have worked. Four of the seven House incumbents who hadn't filed or announced retirement made it down to Matt Schultz's office today: Dave Heaton, R-Mt. Pleasant in House District 84, Rick Olson, D-... »
With two days of filing left, the gaps in the candidate list stand out more than the names. I count only six legislative incumbents, all in the House, who haven't either filed or announced a retirement. Who's going to be our last second surprise? Or di... »
Bruce Braley, Steve King and John Archer turned their paperwork in to Matt Schultz today, meaning the congressional ballot is probably complete. (And no, Joe Seng ain't gonna get the signatures.) For my local readers, Democrat Sally Stutsman tops the f... »
Just three days to go after today, and the candidate list is starting to fill up. Still a few gaps: we havent's seen Bruce Braley or Steve King yet. Close to home, West Liberty Democrat Sara Sedlacek makes it official in House District 88 against Repub... »
Friday night's big news was Wilton Republican Jeff Kaufmann announcing he was not seeking re-election in House District 73. Today, we got the follow-up the rumor mill had told us about: son Bobby Kaufmann, 26, will run in dad's seat. He'll face the win... »
The Republican 1st Congressional District is now official, as Rod Blum joins Ben Lange on the ballot. That tops today's list of filing, but my local readers will be more interested in Dick Schwab. The Solon school board member filed in House District 7... »
A tough race for Iowa Senate Democrats just got tougher, as Tom Rielly of Oskaloosa announces his retirement: I am not saying good bye to public service. I always have and always will be committed to public service, it’s just time for me to stay closer... »
The festival of filing continued today at the Secretary of State's office, with a few more names that I'd somehow missed: Davenport tea partier Mark Nelson, who was the 2006 Libertarian nominee for lieutenant governor. He's now on the ballot as a Repub... »
