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The 2022 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Iowa took place on November half dozen, 2018. Voters elected 4 candidates to serve in the U.Southward. House, ane from each of the state's four congressional districts.

Partisan breakdown

Heading into the November half-dozen election, the Republican Party held three of the four congressional seats from Iowa.

Members of the U.S. Firm from Iowa -- Partisan Breakdown
Party As of Nov 2018 Subsequently the 2022 Election
Autonomous Party i 3
Republican Political party iii one
Total 4 4

Incumbents

Heading into the 2022 election, the incumbents for the four congressional districts were:

Proper name Political party Commune
Rod Blum Ends.png Republican one
Dave Loebsack Electiondot.png Democratic ii
David Young Ends.png Republican 3
Steve King Ends.png Republican iv

2016 Pivot Counties

See besides: Pin Counties and Congressional districts intersecting with Pivot Counties

Iowa features 4 congressional districts that intersect with one or more than Pivot Counties. These 206 Pivot Counties voted for Donald Trump (R) in 2022 after voting for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012.

The 206 Pin Counties are located in 34 states. Iowa, with 31, had the most such counties. Heading into the 2022 elections, the partisan makeup of the 108 congressional districts intersecting with Pivot Counties was more than Republican than the partisan breakup of the U.S. Business firm. Of the 108 congressional districts that had at to the lowest degree one Pivot County, 63 percent were held by a Republican incumbent, while 55.four percent of U.South. House seats were won past a Republican in the 2022 elections.[1]

Candidates

See also: Statistics on U.S. Congress candidates, 2018
Candidate election access

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Commune 1

Full general ballot

General election candidates

  • Rod Blum  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
  • Abby Finkenauer  (Democratic Party) ✔
  • Troy Hageman  (Libertarian Party)

Did non make the ballot:

  • Henry Gaff
Run into as well: Iowa'south 1st Congressional District election (June 5, 2022 Democratic primary)
See also: Iowa'due south 1st Congressional District election (June 5, 2022 Republican primary)

Principal candidates

Democratic Party Democratic primary candidates

  • Abby Finkenauer ✔
  • Thomas Heckroth
  • George Ramsey
  • Courtney Rowe

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Rod Blum (Incumbent) ✔

Green Party

Dark-green Party

  • Henry Gaff[2]

District 2

General ballot

General election candidates

  • Dave Loebsack  (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
  • Chris Peters  (Republican Party)
  • Mark Strauss  (Libertarian Party)
  • Daniel Clark  (Independent)Candidate Connection

Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

See also: Iowa's 2nd Congressional District election (June 5, 2022 Democratic primary)
See also: Iowa'southward 2nd Congressional District election (June 5, 2022 Republican primary)

Primary candidates

Democratic Party Autonomous primary candidates

  • Dave Loebsack (Incumbent) ✔

Republican Party Republican chief candidates

  • Chris Peters ✔

Did not make the ballot:

  • Ginny Caligiuri


Grey.png Independent

  • Daniel Clark[three]

Commune 3

Full general election

General election candidates

  • David Immature  (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
  • Cindy Axne  (Democratic Party) ✔
  • Paul Knupp  (Dark-green Party)
  • Mark Elworth Jr.  (Legal Medical Now Party)
  • Bryan Holder  (Libertarian Party)
  • Joe Grandanette  (Independent)
Encounter also: Iowa'southward tertiary Congressional District election (June 5, 2022 Democratic master)
Meet also: Iowa's 3rd Congressional Commune election (June 5, 2022 Republican master)

Commune 4

General election

General election candidates

  • Steve Male monarch  (Incumbent) (Republican Political party) ✔
  • J.D. Scholten  (Democratic Party)
  • Charles Aldrich  (Libertarian Political party)
  • Edward Peterson  (Independent)
See also: Iowa'southward 4th Congressional District election (June v, 2022 Democratic chief)
See as well: Iowa'due south fourth Congressional Commune election (June five, 2022 Republican main)

Primary candidates

Democratic Party Autonomous master candidates

  • Leann Jacobsen
  • John Paschen
  • J.D. Scholten ✔

Did non make the ballot:

  • Paul Dahl

Republican Party Republican primary candidates

  • Steve King (Incumbent) ✔
  • Cyndi Hanson


Libertarian Party Libertarians

  • Charles Aldrich[7]

Moving ridge election analysis

See also: Wave elections (1918-2016)

The term wave election is often used to describe an election bike in which ane party makes significant electoral gains. How many seats would Republicans have had to lose for the 2022 midterm election to exist considered a wave ballot?

Ballotpedia examined the results of the 50 ballot cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson's (D) 2nd midterm in 1918 to Donald Trump'south (R) get-go presidential ballot in 2016. We define wave elections every bit the xx per centum of elections in that menstruum resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president'due south political party.

Applying this definition to U.Southward. House elections, we constitute that Republicans needed to lose 48 seats for 2022 to qualify every bit a moving ridge election.

The chart beneath shows the number of seats the president'southward party lost in the xi U.Due south. House waves from 1918 to 2016. Click here to read the full written report.

U.S. House moving ridge elections
Year President Political party Election type House seats change House majority[eight]
1932 Hoover R Presidential -97 D
1922 Harding R First midterm -76 R
1938 Roosevelt D Second midterm -70 D
2010 Obama D First midterm -63 R (flipped)
1920 Wilson D Presidential -59 R
1946 Truman D First midterm -54 R (flipped)
1994 Clinton D Outset midterm -54 R (flipped)
1930 Hoover R Starting time midterm -53 D (flipped)
1942 Roosevelt D Tertiary midterm -50 D
1966 Johnson D Showtime midterm[9] -48 D
1974 Ford R 2d midterm[10] -48 D

Run into also

  • United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
  • U.S. Firm battlegrounds, 2018
  • U.S. House primaries, 2018

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The raw data for this study was provided by Dave Leip of Atlas of U.South. Presidential Elections.
  2. ↑ Henry Gaff for Congress, "Dwelling," accessed August 3, 2017
  3. ↑ Daniel Clark for Congress, "Home," accessed March 21, 2018
  4. ↑ Iowa Secretary of Land, Candidate Listing," accessed March 29, 2018
  5. ↑ Bleeding Heartland, "IA-03: Frerick ends campaign, Greenfield has petition problems," March 16, 2018
  6. ↑ Facebook, "Mark Elworth Jr, Iowa D3 Congressional Candidate, Legal Medical At present Party," accessed April 24, 2018
  7. ↑ Iowa Secretarial assistant of Land, "Candidate Listing," accessed March 29, 2018
  8. ↑ Denotes the party that had more seats in the U.S. Business firm following the election.
  9. ↑ Lyndon Johnson's (D) first term began in November 1963 afterward the death of President John F. Kennedy (D), who was beginning elected in 1960. Before Johnson had his beginning midterm in 1966, he was re-elected president in 1964.
  10. ↑ Gerald Ford'south (R) kickoff term began in August 1974 post-obit the resignation of President Richard Nixon (R), who was first elected in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. Because Ford only served for two full months before facing the electorate, this election is classified every bit Nixon's second midterm.

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