Everybody counts if they'll hold that oath. This page fills in as we find the real, sourced answer — never with a guess. A blank means we haven't found it yet, not that it doesn't matter.
The idea behind this page, in the words that started it:
"Everybody counts in this site if they will hold that Oath of Office — what if somebody did not know they could vote for them because I want it to show we the people what we can do when we can see?"
So this page doesn't tell you who to vote for. It shows you who's actually running, what they've actually said and filed, and the same numbers for everyone in the race — side by side, sourced, no label on top of it. You draw the conclusion. We just make sure you can see it.
Real, fixed dates from Iowa's own election authority — not a reminder we made up, a countdown against the actual deadline. Counting down in your own device's clock, local time.
Source: Iowa Secretary of State, Voter Ready — A Guide to Voting in Iowa, cross-checked against official county auditor pages (e.g. Black Hawk, Johnson counties). Missed the pre-registration date? You can still register at the polls on Election Day.
Five official, government-run links. Not us, not a party, not a PAC — the actual agencies that run elections.
Six boxes. Check them as you actually do them — not as a promise, a record. Nothing here is saved on our end; the whole checklist lives in the link itself, so it only goes where you send it.
Check a few boxes, then copy the link — the checked state travels with the URL itself, so pasting it to someone else, or bookmarking it, brings the same boxes back checked. The download is a plain text file, nothing sent anywhere.
2026 is a genuinely rare year for Iowa, and it's worth knowing why before the two races below. This is the first open governor's race in Iowa since 2006, and the first time an open governor's race and an open U.S. Senate race have landed on the same ballot since 1968. Both incumbents — Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Joni Ernst — chose not to seek another term. Neither race is close to a normal incumbent re-election, and that's a fact about the calendar, not an opinion about either of them.
Sen. Joni Ernst's open seat. A lopsided Republican primary and a real contest on the Democratic side.
Every field below is sourced. A blank stays a blank until we find the real number.
| Candidate | Party | Current / former office | June 2, 2026 primary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley Hinson | Republican | U.S. Representative, IA-2 — already tracked on this site's own map | Won nomination, 74.2% (153,059 votes) |
| Josh Turek | Democratic | Iowa State Representative | Won nomination, 62.7% (120,287 votes) |
| Zach Wahls (D), Iowa state senator, ran second at 37.3% (71,663 votes) — a real primary, not a coronation. | |||
| Campaign money for this Senate race — not yet pulled from this cycle's filings. Logged, not built yet. | |||
Sources: 2026 U.S. Senate election in Iowa, Wikipedia, citing Iowa Secretary of State canvass data · Iowa Secretary of State, 2026 Primary Election Official Results portal (official, certified)
If Hinson wins in November, IA-2 becomes an open House seat — the same delegation-vacancy pattern this site already documents for Nebraska's NE-02, and the exact mechanism covered in the lesson on how vacant seats get filled. Not a prediction; a fact about what happens next if the arithmetic above holds.
The closer of the two races on this page. A sitting U.S. Representative with a presidential endorsement lost the primary by less than a point.
Every field below is sourced. A blank stays a blank until we find the real number.
| Candidate | Party | Current / former office | Running mate | June 2, 2026 primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Lahn | Republican | Businessman — no prior elected office | Derek Wulf | Won nomination, 37.7% (80,765 votes) |
| Rob Sand | Democratic | Iowa State Auditor (2019–present) | Dave Muhlbauer | Unopposed, 99.6% (189,442 votes) |
| The Republican primary was won by 1,652 votes out of 214,529 cast. Rep. Randy Feenstra — endorsed by President Trump, and the pre-primary frontrunner in most coverage — took 36.9% (79,113 votes), a 0.8-point margin behind Lahn. That is on the record whether or not it matches what most coverage predicted. | ||||
| Campaign money for this race — not yet pulled. Statewide Iowa races file with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, not the FEC. Logged, not built yet. | ||||
Sources: 2026 Iowa gubernatorial election, Wikipedia, citing Iowa Secretary of State canvass data · Iowa Secretary of State, 2026 Primary Election Official Results portal (official, certified) · Iowa Capital Dispatch, Feenstra concedes, 2026-06-02
Still blank, on purpose: every dollar figure for both races above. Not built yet. Check back, or if you find it first with a source, that's homework too.
In the meantime: this site already tracks real, sourced money for Iowa's federal delegation currently in office — a different set of people (the sitting House members and Sen. Chuck Grassley) than the 2026 nominees above, so the two aren't mixed together here. See who's #PAC_FUNDED and who's #HIGH_PAC_SHARE → Or meet the whole federal delegation directly on the map →
Beta. Ten states built so far. Every number here is dated and linked to where it came from. A blank means we haven't found the real answer yet — we don't fill it with a guess to make the page look finished.
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