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Governor:1(Term Limit: None; 4-year term)
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
2000 Representatives:5(1.15% of 435)
2002 Representatives:5(1.15% of 435)
2004 Electors:7(1.30% of 538)
1990 Census:2,776,831 (1.12% of 248,765,170)
2000 Census:2,931,923 (1.04% of 281,998,273)
Registered Voters (2000):1,841,346
Estimated Voting age population (2000):2,165,000
Capital:Des Moines
 

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Official Name/Status   All States
 The STATE of Iowa
 Status: STATE of the Union
 Organized as a Territory: 12 June 1838. 5 Stat. 235: effective, 3 July 1838; previously, part of Wisconsin Territory
 Admitted to the Union as a State: 28 December 1846 by an Act of Congress (9 Stat. 117)
  The 29th state.
Traditional Sections and Regions   All States
 Section: MIDWEST
 Region: Great Plains
 Survey: Public Domain
Constitutions   All States     Links to State Constitutions
 Enabling Act (of the Congress of the United States): 3 March 1845 [5 Stat. 742: authorizing formation of a State government alone]
 
• 1st (1846-1857) [Adopted: 18 May 1846 Convention convened, 4 May 1846, Ratified: 3 August 1846 ratified by vote of 9,492 to 9,036; effective upon Admission, 28 December 1846]
• 2nd (1857--) [Adopted: 5 March 1857 Convention convened, 19 January 1857, Ratified: 3 August 1857 ratified by vote of 40,311 to 38,681]
Executive Branch   All States
 
Chief Executive
 • GOVERNOR
Successor to a Vacancy
 • Lieutenant Governor [elected separately from GOVERNOR]
 
 
Major Executive Officers Elected Statewide   All States   2009 Office holders
 • Governor: 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: None
 • Lieutenant Governor: 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Elected on a ticket with Governor.
 • Secretary of State: 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010
 • Attorney General: 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010
 • Treasurer: 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010
 • Auditor: 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010
 • Secretary of Agriculture and Land Stewardship: 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010
Legislative Branch   All States
 
Legislature
 • GENERAL ASSEMBLY
 
Upper House
 • Senate
Lower House
 • House of Representatives
Judicial Branch   All States
 
Court of Last Resort
 • Supreme Court
Intermediate Appellate Court
 • Court of Appeals
 
Local Government
 
   
PRIMARY CIVIL DIVISION  All States
 • County [Type: Strong, Executive and Legislative: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS]
 MINOR CIVIL DIVISION  All States
  • township [Type: Vestigial, Executive and Legislative: Board of Trustees]
 
Incorporated Municipalities  All States
 
Localities
 •   Iowa Civil Divisions and Municipalities
   
Key Statewide / Federal Officials  All States
  Iowa Officials
Statutory Election Information   All States
 
General Election   All States
 • 39.1 General election. The general election shall be held throughout the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. [Merged Iowa Code & Supplement]
Presidential Primary   All States
 • (for Political party precinct caucuses -Ed) Delegates to county conventions of political parties and party committee members shall be elected at precinct caucuses held not later than the fourth Monday in February of each even-numbered year. The date shall be at least eight days earlier than the scheduled date for any meeting, caucus or primary which constitutes the first determining stage of the presidential nominating process in any other state, territory or any other group which has the authority to select delegates in the presidential nomination. [Merged Iowa Code & Supplement 43.4]
State Primary   All States
 • The primary election by all political parties shall be held ... on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in each even-numbered year. [Merged Iowa Code & Supplement 43.7]
Polling times   All States
 • 49.73 Time of opening and closing polls.
1. At all elections, except as otherwise permitted by this section, the polls shall be opened at seven o'clock a.m., or as soon thereafter as vacancies on the precinct election board have been filled. On the basis of voter turnout for recent similar elections and factors considered likely to so affect voter turnout for the forthcoming election as to justify shortened voting hours for that election, the commissioner may direct that the polls be opened at twelve o'clock noon for ....
49.53. The polling places shall be closed at nine o'clock p.m. for state primary and general elections and other partisan elections, and for any other election held concurrently therewith, and at eight o'clock p.m. for all other elections.
[Merged Iowa Code & Supplement]
Links  Links to other web sites
 
Constitution
 • 1857 CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF IOWA
Election Authority
 • Iowa Secretary of State
Legislature
 • Iowa General Assembly
Democratic
 • Iowa Democratic Party
 • Iowa First Caucus - Your information source for the 2008 Iowa Caucuses)
 • Iowa House Democrats
 • Iowa Senate Democrats
Republican
 • Iowa House Republican Caucus
 • Iowa Senate Republican Caucus
 • Republican Party of Iowa
Third Party
 • Constitution Party of Iowa
 • Constitution Party of Iowa
 • Iowa Green Party
 • Iowa Right to Life Committee
 • Libertarian Party of Iowa
 • One Earth Party
 • The Unity Party of Iowa
Media & others
 • Blog for Iowa
 • DC's Political Report - Iowa
 • Dubuque Telegraph Herald
 • Fort Madison Daily Democrat
 • Globe Gazette - Mason City
 • Iowa Caucuses 2008
 • Iowa City Press-Citizen
 • Iowa Farmer Today
 • Iowa Independent
 • Iowa Politics - West Des Moines
 • Iowa Press - Iowa Public Television
 • Iowa Progress Project - Conservative
 • Iowa Public Television - Johnston
 • Kalona News
 • KCAU TV - ABC - Sioux City
 • KCCI TV - CBS - TheIowaChannel - Des Moines
 • KCRG TV - ABC - Cedar Rapids - Iowa City - Dubuque
 • KDSM TV - FOX - Des Moines
 • KLJB TV - Fox - Davenport
 • KMEG TV - CBS - Sioux City
 • Politics1.com - Iowa
 • Quad-Cities - Dispatch/Argus/Leader - Moline - Rock Island - Davenport
 • Quad-City Times
 • Radio Iowa
 • Sioux City Journal
 • The Bean Walker - West Des Moines
 • The Bloomfield Democrat
 • The Daily Nonpareil - Council Bluffs
 • The Des Moines Register
 • The Gazette - Cedar Rapids
 • The Humboldt Independent
 • The Iowa Republican - Des Moines
 • The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier
 • WHO TV - NBC - Des Moines
 
 

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