Iowa and New Hampshire receive immense attention from presidential primary campaigns. Should that attention shift to a bigger ...

A special election to fill former state Sen. Claire Celsi's seat could help Republicans regain the supermajority they lost in ...

Republican Wendy Larson defeated Democrat Rachel Burns to win a special election for Iowa House District 7 in northwest Iowa.

An Iowa Senate special election is drawing national attention after Democrat Catelin Drey's victory, which ends a three-year Republican supermajority in the state's upper chamber. Drey's win gives ...

Election season in Iowa has officially started. Early and absentee voting began Wednesday, Oct. 15, for the 2025 city and school elections. Election Day is Nov. 4. The absentee ballot request deadline ...

As Republicans and Democrats look ahead to next year’s midterms, both parties are keeping an eye on a series of state and local special elections to close the year out. Democrats are seeking ...

Iowa should not abandon its primary system for a complicated, multiple-choice voting process that would blur party lines and weaken voters’ right to freely associate through the political party of ...

Iowans across the state went to the polls to vote in local races — determining who will represent them on city councils, school boards — and bond referendums. For weeks, the Des Moines Register's ...

“This agreement with the Trump administration will help Iowa safeguard the integrity of our elections for years to come by preventing an illegal vote to cancel out the vote of Iowa citizens.” Bird and ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Early voting in the November city and school elections is already underway across Iowa. What do election ...

THE CANDIDATES PLAN TO DO IF ELECTED. IOWA SECRETARY OF STATE PAUL PATE AND THE STATE’S ELECTION SECURITY TEAM ARE REMINDING VOTERS OF THE SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE THIS ELECTION CYCLE. SECRETARY PATE SAYS ...

A Hancock County jury acquitted a man charged with illegally voting in a 2022 election. The verdict is the first acquittal in a series of noncitizen voting prosecutions by Iowa's attorney general.