| Election Name: | 2016 Iowa elections |
| Country: | Iowa |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2014 Iowa elections |
| Previous Year: | 2014 |
| Next Election: | 2018 Iowa elections |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
The Iowa general elections, 2016 were held in the U.S. state of Iowa on November 8, 2016. One of Iowa's U.S. Senate seats and all four seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election, as well as half of the Iowa Senate seats and all of the Iowa House of Representatives seats. Primary elections were held on June 7, 2016.[1]
The Iowa Republican Party made large gains in the election, increasing its majority in the State House and taking control of the State Senate, giving the state a Republican trifecta for the first time since 1996.[2]
See main article: article and United States Senate election in Iowa, 2016. Incumbent Republican Senator Chuck Grassley sought re-election to a seventh term.[3] Grassley defeated Democratic nominee Patty Judge and several third-party candidates in the general election, winning 60.09% of the vote.[4]
See main article: article and United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 2016. All of Iowa's four seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in November. Party control remained unchanged after the general election.[4]
See main article: article and Iowa Senate election, 2016.
The 25 even-numbered Iowa Senate seats were up for election.
| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Republican | Independent | Vacant | ||||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | Before 2016 elections | 26 | 23 | 1 | 50 | 0 | |||
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| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | After 2016 elections | 20 | 29 | 1 | 50 | 0 | |||
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All 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives were up for election.
| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Democratic | Vacant | |||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | Before 2016 elections | 57 | 43 | 100 | 0 | ||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | Latest voting share | ||||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | After 2016 elections | 59 | 41 | 100 | 0 | ||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | New voting share | ||||||