Scope and limitations

What this Iowa guide covers

This Iowa guide covers all 7 statewide candidate contests and all 15 current printed choices or tickets confirmed by Iowa's official nominee, filing, and legal election-notice records.

Included

Published now

15 printed choices or tickets in all 7 statewide candidate contests
Official primary winners, accepted general filings, and the September 25 legal election notice
12 exact Iowa committee-code matches with DR-2 summaries for the period ending July 14
3 matched FEC U.S. Senate summaries through June 30
Pre-registration, Election Day registration, absentee request, in-person absentee, identification, return, and Election Day rules
The one confirmed statewide constitutional amendment with official full-text source
All three statewide Court of Appeals retention questions and the no-Supreme-Court-item caveat
Iowa's no-advance-filing write-in rule, kept separate from printed choices
A separate 2026 calendar-date explorer with 205,896 cash contribution, in-kind and expenditure records across 1,121 source accounts

Not included

Outside this release

U.S. House, General Assembly, district, county, township, soil and water, agricultural extension, hospital trustee, municipal, school, and local contests
Nicholas Gluba and Jules Cutler because the current official accepted-candidate list and legal election notice do not include their ticket
Named write-in candidates because Iowa requires no nomination papers or declaration of intent for write-ins
District court and district associate judge retention questions that do not appear statewide
Complete independent-expenditure forms and targets; limited out-of-state/federal filer expenditure records are searchable separately
Complete election-cycle and historical transaction coverage; the separate calendar-date explorer has four bounded source ledgers
Business, lobbying, contract, land, and conflict-record research

Not yet published

District contests, local ballot styles, and remaining finance gaps

The separate money explorer includes four source ledgers with explicit coverage limits. Loans, balances, unpaid bills, property schedules and complete independent-expenditure forms remain outside that explorer. Congressional districts, legislative districts, county and local contests, district judicial questions and local public measures remain outside this statewide candidate guide.

Dataset comparison: Do not compare state datasets as if they use one method. Nevada includes itemized transactions. Alabama uses race-level portal summaries. Alaska uses APOC and FEC records. Arizona uses Spotlight summaries across a calendar-year filter. Arkansas uses candidate summaries for Election Year 2026. California uses CAL-ACCESS committee totals. Colorado uses TRACER and FEC summaries. Connecticut uses W4POLITICS sums of nonoverlapping SEEC30 report periods plus the latest reported balance. Delaware uses verified CFRS filings and FEC summaries. Florida uses candidate-specific All Dates Totals. Georgia uses campaign-to-date PeachFile fields. Hawaii uses Candidate Filing System report totals. Iowa uses exact fields from each committee's DR-2 summary for the period ending July 14 and processed FEC summaries through June 30.

Version record

Iowa guide 1.0

PublishedOctober 1, 2026

Contests shown7

Ballot choices15

Ballot measures1

7 statewide candidate contests, 15 printed choices or tickets, 12 Iowa DR-2 summaries, 3 FEC summaries, voter deadlines, 1 statewide constitutional amendment, three statewide Court of Appeals retention questions, and primary sources.

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Iowa guide publication record
Version	Published	Scope
1.0	October 1, 2026	7 statewide candidate contests, 15 printed choices or tickets, 12 Iowa DR-2 summaries, 3 FEC summaries, voter deadlines, 1 statewide constitutional amendment, three statewide Court of Appeals retention questions, and primary sources.

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