Iowa's 10th Senate district explained

State:Iowa
District:10
Chamber:Senate
Representative:Dan Dawson
Party:Republican

The 10th District of the Iowa Senate is located in Western Iowa, and is currently composed of the cities of Council Bluffs and Carter Lake in Pottawattamie County.[1]

Current elected officials

Dan Dawson is the senator currently representing the 10th District.

The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.

List of Representatives

Source:[2]

RepresentativePartyDatesResidenceNotes
bgcolor= Democrat1846-1849Mahaska County
bgcolor= Democrat1851-1851Keokuk County
bgcolor= Democrat1852-1853Council Bluffs, Iowa
bgcolor= Democrat1854-1855Council Bluffs, Iowa
bgcolor= Democrat1856-1859Decatur County
bgcolor= Republican1860-1861Fairfield, IowaWilson was elected to the US House of Representatives for Iowa's 1st congressional district in 1861.
bgcolor= Republican1862-1863Jefferson County
bgcolor= Republican1864-1867Henry County
bgcolor= Republican1868Burlington, IowaSenator Matthies died in office in 1868.
bgcolor= Republican1870-1873Burlington, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1874-1877Des Moines County
bgcolor= Republican1878-1881Mount Pleasant, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1882-1885Mount Pleasant, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1886-1891Mount Pleasant, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1892-1899Washington, Iowa
bgcolor= Democrat1900-1901Washington, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1902-1906Washington, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1907-1910Mount Pleasant, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1911-1914Washington, Iowa
bgcolor= Democrat1915-1918Winfield, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1919-1926Washington, IowaSenator Brookhart died in office in 1926.
bgcolor= Republican1927-1934Henry County
bgcolor= Republican1935-1942Washington, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1943-1950Henry County
bgcolor= Republican1951-1958Washington County
bgcolor= Republican1959-1962Mount Pleasant, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican1963-1966Ainsworth, Iowa
bgcolor= Democrat1967-1970Mahaska
bgcolor= Republican1971-1972Linn County
bgcolor= Democrat1973-1974Dubuque County
bgcolor= Democrat1974-1982Dubuque County
bgcolor= Democrat1983-1992Cerro Gordo County
bgcolor= Republican1993-2001Worth CountySenator Bartz resigned in 2001 to take a position in the US Department of Agriculture
bgcolor= Democrat2002Cerro Gordo County
bgcolor= Republican2003-2004Black Hawk County
bgcolor= Democrat2005-2012Black Hawk County
bgcolor= Republican2013-2022Adel, Iowa
bgcolor= Republican2023-PresentCouncil Bluffs, Iowa

Historical district boundaries

MapDescriptionYears EffectiveNotes
Keokuk County
Mahaska County		1846-1849From 1846 to 1857, District numbering was not utilized by the Iowa State Legislature. This convention was added with the passing of the 1857 Iowa Constitution. Numbering of districts pre-1857 is done as a matter of historic convenience.[3]
Keokuk County
Mahaska County
Poweshiek County		1850-1851
Pottawattamie County1852-1855
Appanoose County
Decatur County
Wayne County		1856-1859
Jefferson County1860-1863
Henry County1864-1867
Des Moines County1868-1877
Henry County1878-1883
Henry County
Jefferson County		1884-1887
Henry County
Washington County		1888-1962
Louisa County
Washington County		1963-1966
Keokuk County
Mahaska County		1967-1970
Buchanan County
Delaware County (partial)
Linn County (partial)		1971-1972In 1970, the Iowa Legislature passed an amendment to the Iowa Constitution setting forth the rules for legislative redistricting in order to abide by the rules established by the Reynolds v. Sims Supreme Court Case. The first reapportionment map created by the Republican controlled legislature was deemed Unconstitutional, but was still used for the 1970 Election.[4]
Dubuque County (partial) 1973-1982
Cerro Gordo County (partial)
Winnebago County (partial)
Worth County		1983-1992
Cerro Gordo County
Mitchell County (partial)
Worth County		1993-2002
Black Hawk County (partial)
2003-2012
Adair County
Cass County (partial)

Dallas County (partial)

Guthrie County
Polk County (partial)

2013-2022
Pottawattamie County (partial) 2023-Present

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: District 10 Map .
  2. Web site: Historic Legislator List .
  3. Web site: 1846 Iowa Constitution .
  4. Web site: Reapportionment in Iowa .

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