.jpg){kind=link}
Iowa
Governor
Open seat · Four-year term
- Photo unavailable
Zach LahnRepublican 
Rob SandDemocratic
Official roster verified · Reviewed
US ELECTION DASHBOARD
Loading the dashboard…
Preparing public records and geographic context.
US ELECTION DASHBOARD
Preparing public records and geographic context.
Iowa
· General election · Six-year Class II term beginning January 3, 2027
Shown in surname order. Complete record, including write-ins and withdrawals ↓ · Photo credits ↓
Every candidate in the reviewed official scope, in surname order, including declared write-ins and withdrawn or removed entries when the source lists them.
Republican
Libertarian
Democratic
Photographs identify candidates and do not imply endorsement. A photograph is shown only when it is linked to the same person through reviewed identity evidence; officeholder portraits are reused by person identity, never by office. Historical photographs keep their original dates. Every other candidate shows initials and “Photo unavailable”.
Office of Congresswoman Ashley Hinson / Wikimedia Commons · 2020 · Historical photograph
Ashley Hinson, official portrait, 117th Congress (cropped).jpg ↗ · Public domain ↗ · Local derivative ↗
Resized and converted to WebP; original proportions retained. The interface displays a 4:5 crop. Existing source crops, where applicable, are retained; no retouching. The derivative is distributed under Public domain. Reviewed 2026-10-25.
File-description revision 912843777 · Asset SHA-256 f7b38dc3470861614e49be8fa43412ad70a9b277887de3e38186a02610b76501
Official candidate record · Reviewed 2026-10-31 · Published date not supplied
Official county record: Polk County Auditor sample ballot (Ankeny 14), November 3, 2026 General Election. Statewide contests are identical on every Iowa ballot. The Iowa Secretary of State site answered with bot verification and was not reviewed.
Seat evidence · Reviewed 2026-10-31 · Published date not supplied
Lists Joni Ernst (R-IA) as the current Class II senator for Iowa, matching the repository Congress snapshot (Bioguide E000295). Seat status compares this officeholder with the official candidate record.
Race cards picture one Democratic and one Republican nominee, at equal size, when the official general-election ballot list includes exactly one of each; they appear in the official statewide ballot order where a source publishes one, and otherwise in surname order. Other contests (no Democratic or Republican nominee, top-four registration labels, an unverified ballot listing or no verified roster) picture the first four ballot candidates by surname. Every other ballot candidate is named on the card, and this page lists everyone in the reviewed record, including write-ins and withdrawn or removed candidates. No candidate is shown or omitted on judgments of competitiveness, and the display does not predict results.
Iowa
Open seat · Four-year term
Official roster verified · Reviewed