Iowa and New Hampshire receive immense attention from presidential primary campaigns. Should that attention shift to a bigger ...

A special election to fill former state Sen. Claire Celsi's seat could help Republicans regain the supermajority they lost in ...

Iowans will soon head to the polls to cast their votes in the 2025 city council and school board elections. Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and you can find your precinct and polling place ...

An Iowa Senate special election is drawing national attention after Democrat Catelin Drey's victory, which ends a three-year Republican supermajority in the state's upper chamber. Drey's win gives ...

Election season in Iowa has officially started. Early and absentee voting began Wednesday, Oct. 15, for the 2025 city and school elections. Election Day is Nov. 4. The absentee ballot request deadline ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — The 2026 Iowa midterm elections are less than a year out, and policy issues that campaigns ...

Republican Wendy Larson defeated Democrat Rachel Burns to win a special election for Iowa House District 7 in northeast Iowa.

Iowa should not abandon its primary system for a complicated, multiple-choice voting process that would blur party lines and weaken voters’ right to freely associate through the political party of ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Early voting in the November city and school elections is already underway across Iowa. What do election ...

“This agreement with the Trump administration will help Iowa safeguard the integrity of our elections for years to come by preventing an illegal vote to cancel out the vote of Iowa citizens.” Bird and ...

THE CANDIDATES PLAN TO DO IF ELECTED. IOWA SECRETARY OF STATE PAUL PATE AND THE STATE’S ELECTION SECURITY TEAM ARE REMINDING VOTERS OF THE SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE THIS ELECTION CYCLE. SECRETARY PATE SAYS ...

A Hancock County jury acquitted a man charged with illegally voting in a 2022 election. The verdict is the first acquittal in a series of noncitizen voting prosecutions by Iowa's attorney general.