Iowa's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024

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Iowa's 2nd Congressional District
	Democratic primary; Republican primary; General election
Election details
	Filing deadline: March 15, 2024
	Primary: June 4, 2024; General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
	Poll times: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Voting in Iowa
Race ratings
	Cook Political Report: Solid Republican; DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Republican; Inside Elections: Solid Republican; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Republican
Ballotpedia analysis
	U.S. Senate battlegrounds; U.S. House battlegrounds; Federal and state primary competitiveness; Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2024
See also
	Iowa's 2nd Congressional District; 1st • 2nd • 3rd • 4th; Iowa elections, 2024; U.S. Congress elections, 2024; U.S. Senate elections, 2024; U.S. House elections, 2024; Alabama U.S. House racesAlaska U.S. House racesArizona U.S. House racesArkansas U.S. House racesCalifornia U.S. House racesColorado U.S. House racesConnecticut U.S. House racesDelaware U.S. House racesFlorida U.S. House racesGeorgia U.S. House racesHawaii U.S. House racesIdaho U.S. House racesIllinois U.S. House racesIndiana U.S. House racesIowa U.S. House racesKansas U.S. House racesKentucky U.S. House racesLouisiana U.S. House racesMaine U.S. House racesMaryland U.S. House racesMassachusetts U.S. House racesMichigan U.S. House racesMinnesota U.S. House racesMississippi U.S. House racesMissouri U.S. House racesMontana U.S. House racesNebraska U.S. House racesNevada U.S. House racesNew Hampshire U.S. House racesNew Jersey U.S. House racesNew Mexico U.S. House racesNew York U.S. House racesNorth Carolina U.S. House racesNorth Dakota U.S. House racesOhio U.S. House racesOklahoma U.S. House racesOregon U.S. House racesPennsylvania U.S. House racesRhode Island U.S. House racesSouth Carolina U.S. House racesSouth Dakota U.S. House racesTennessee U.S. House racesTexas U.S. House racesUtah U.S. House racesVermont U.S. House racesVirginia U.S. House racesWashington U.S. House racesWest Virginia U.S. House racesWisconsin U.S. House racesWyoming U.S. House racesSubmit

Iowa 2024 elections

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All U.S. House districts, including the 2nd Congressional District of Iowa, are holding elections in 2024. The general election is November 5, 2024. The primary was June 4, 2024. The filing deadline was March 15, 2024. All 435 U.S. House seats are up for election in 2024. Republicans have a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies.^[1] As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Republican candidate won 54.1%-45.8%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Donald Trump (R) would have defeated Joe Biden (D) 51.3%-46.9%.^[2]

For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:

Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. House Iowa District 2

Incumbent Ashley Hinson, Sarah Corkery, and Jody Madlom Puffett are running in the general election for U.S. House Iowa District 2 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate
		Ashley Hinson (R)
		Sarah Corkery (D)
		Jody Madlom Puffett (Independent)

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined.
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Iowa District 2

Sarah Corkery advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Iowa District 2 on June 4, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Sarah Corkery	99.4	10,479
	Other/Write-in votes	0.6	60

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 10,539
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Jacob Wieland (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Iowa District 2

Incumbent Ashley Hinson advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Iowa District 2 on June 4, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Ashley Hinson	98.6	22,626
	Other/Write-in votes	1.4	327

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 22,953
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Stephen Kephart (R)

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Voting information

See also: Voting in Iowa

Election information in Iowa: Nov. 5, 2024, election.

What is the voter registration deadline?

In-person: Oct. 21, 2024
By mail: Received by Oct. 21, 2024
Online: Oct. 21, 2024

Is absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

Yes

What is the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

In-person: Oct. 21, 2024
By mail: Received by Oct. 21, 2024
Online: Oct. 21, 2024

What is the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
By mail: Received by Nov. 5, 2024

Is early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What are the early voting start and end dates?

Oct. 16, 2024 to Nov. 4, 2024

Are all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, is a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When are polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

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Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Ashley Hinson	Republican Party	$4,086,218	$2,253,725	$1,900,942	As of June 30, 2024
Sarah Corkery	Democratic Party	$254,880	$185,452	$69,428	As of June 30, 2024
Jody Madlom Puffett	Independent	$681	$148	$533	As of June 30, 2024
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

General election race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.^[3]
Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Race ratings: Iowa's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
Race tracker	Race ratings
	October 1, 2024	September 24, 2024	September 17, 2024	September 10, 2024
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Iowa in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Iowa, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Iowa	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	1,726, including at least 47 signatures from ½ of the counties in the district	N/A	3/15/2024	Source
Iowa	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	1,726, including at least 47 signatures from ½ of the counties in the district	N/A	8/24/2024	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Competitiveness
Presidential elections

State party control

Below is the district map in place for this election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Iowa.

Iowa U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	4	4	0	11	8	1	2	37.5%	2	66.7%
2022	4	4	0	10	8	0	1	12.5%	0	0.0%
2020	4	4	1	18	8	0	4	50.0%	1	33.3%
2018	4	4	0	16	8	3	1	50.0%	1	25.0%
2016	4	4	0	13	8	2	2	50.0%	2	50.0%
2014	4	4	2	21	8	1	3	50.0%	0	0.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Iowa in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 19, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Eleven candidates ran for Iowa’s four U.S. House districts, including five Democrats and six Republicans. That’s 2.75 candidates per district, higher than the 2.5 candidates per district in 2022 but lower than the 4.5 candidates per district in 2020.

No seats were open in 2024, meaning all incumbents ran for re-election. One House seat was open in 2020, and two were open in 2014, the only two years this decade in which House seats were open.

Three congressional districts—the 1st, the 3rd, and the 4th—were tied for the most candidates running for a seat in Iowa in 2024. Three candidates ran in each district.

Three primaries—one Democratic and two Republican—were contested in 2024. That’s more than the one primary that was contested in 2022 but less than the four primaries that were contested in 2020.

Two incumbents—Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-1) and Randy Feenstra (R-4)—were in contested primaries, tying with 2016 for the most this decade.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district is R+4. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 4 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Iowa's 2nd the 196th most Republican district nationally.^[7]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Iowa's 2nd based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
46.9%	51.3%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.^[8] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
46.5	51.2	R+4.7

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Iowa, 2020

Iowa presidential election results (1900-2020)

11 Democratic wins
20 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	D	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	D	D	R	R

See also: Party control of Iowa state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Iowa's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Iowa
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	0	0
Republican	2	4	6
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	4	6

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Iowa's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Iowa, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Kim Reynolds
Lieutenant Governor	Adam Gregg
Secretary of State	Paul Pate
Attorney General	Brenna Bird

State legislature

Iowa State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	16
	Republican Party	34
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		50

Iowa House of Representatives

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	36
	Republican Party	64
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		100

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until 2024.

Iowa Party Control: 1992-2024
Four years of Democratic trifectas • Ten years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	S	S	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

District history

The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.