| Election Name: | 1908 Iowa Senate election |
| Country: | Iowa |
| Flag Image: | Flag of Iowa (variant).svg |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1906 Iowa Senate election |
| Previous Year: | 1906 |
| Next Election: | 1910 Iowa Senate election |
| Next Year: | 1910 |
| Seats For Election: | 29 out of 50 seats in the Iowa Senate |
| Majority Seats: | 26 |
| Election Date: | November 3, 1908 |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Last Election1: | 36 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Seats After1: | 34 |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Last Election2: | 14 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Seats After2: | 16 |
The 1908 Iowa Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1908 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 29 of the senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa Senate.
A statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1908 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly here.
The 1908 elections were the first in Iowa with primary elections due to the enactment of the Primary Election Law by the General Assembly in 1907.[1] The primary election on June 2, 1908, determined which candidates appeared on the November 3, 1908 general election ballot.[2] [3]
Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 36 seats to Democrats' 14 seats.
To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 12 Senate seats.
Republicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1908 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 34 seats and Democrats having 16 seats (a net gain of 2 seats for Democrats).
| Senate District | Incumbent | Party | Elected Senator | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | James Elerick | Rep | William Sylvester Allen | Rep | ||
| 3rd | Lewis Leroy Taylor | Dem | Lewis Leroy Taylor | Dem | ||
| 4th | John Alexander McKlveen | Rep | George McCulloch | Rep | ||
| 5th | Marion Floyd Stookey | Rep | John Dana Brown | Rep | ||
| 6th | Daniel Webster Turner | Rep | Theophilus W. Bennett | Rep | ||
| 8th | Shirley Gillilland | Rep | Shirley Gillilland | Rep | ||
| 11th | James H. Jamison | Rep | Aaron VanScoy Proudfoot | Rep | ||
| 14th | William G. Jones | Rep | John Fletcher Ream | Dem | ||
| 15th | James L. Warren | Rep | John Thomas Clarkson | Dem | ||
| 16th | James Judson Crossley | Rep | Arthur Craig Savage | Rep | ||
| 17th | Frank M. Hopkins | Rep | George Cosson | Rep | ||
| 19th | Charles George Saunders | Rep | Charles George Saunders | Rep | ||
| 23rd | Thomas Lambert | Dem | Lyman Bradley Parshall | Dem | ||
| 24th | Robert C. Stirton | Dem | Horace Ray Chapman | Rep | ||
| 25th | John Hughes | Rep | James A. White | Dem | ||
| 26th | Willard Coldren Stuckslager | Rep | Willard Coldren Stuckslager | Rep | ||
| 27th | Henry Young | Rep | Frederic Larrabee | Rep | ||
| 28th | Charles Eckles | Rep | Comfort Harvey Van Law | Rep | ||
| 31st | Charles J. A. Ericson | Rep | Joseph Andrew Fitchpatrick | Rep | ||
| 32nd | John H. Jackson | Rep | Robert Hunter | Rep | ||
| 33rd | George W. Dunham | Rep | Edwin Hiram Hoyt | Rep | ||
| 36th | Byron W. Newberry | Rep | Robert Pollok Quigley | Dem | ||
| 39th | John F. Wade | Dem | Charles Gates | Rep | ||
| 40th | Archibald C. Wilson | Rep | Henry L. Adams | Rep | ||
| 41st | James Albert Smith | Rep | James Albert Smith | Rep | ||
| 43rd | Abner H. Gale | Rep | John Hammill | Rep | ||
| 46th | John L. Bleakly | Rep | James Uriah Sammis | Rep | ||
| 47th | George Kinne | Rep | Leslie E. Francis | Rep | ||
| 49th | William C. Kimmel | Rep | Nicholas Balkema | Rep | ||
Source:[4]
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