Iowa Education Legislative Watch
Official portrait of Austin Harris
StateIowa House

Austin Harris

State representative, House District 26

Re-elected Nov 3 (unofficial results). Serving another term.

Party
Republican
District
House District 26See it on a street map
Committees
House Health and Human Services (chair)
Tracked votes
94
The record

Voting record

Votes on the education bills we track. Each bill links to its history, text and who sponsored it.

Campaign money

Who funds their campaign

Money given to Austin Harris’s campaign for the Iowa House, from reports it files with the state. It doesn’t include money raised for any other race, such as a run for Congress, which is reported to the Federal Election Commission instead. We show totals; we don’t name individual donors.

$163,446raised in 2023–24, through Dec 23, 2024

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Other candidates
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
87%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
12%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 46% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. RPAC Iowa - REALTORS Political Action CommitteePAC$8,000
  2. Manufactured Housing Political Action Committee #6096PAC$6,100
  3. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$5,000
  4. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action CommitteePAC$5,000
  5. Elite PACPAC$4,500
  6. Master Builders of Iowa P.A.C.PAC$4,000
  7. Iowa Corn Growers Association Federal PACPAC$4,000
  8. IHA PACPAC$3,750
  9. Iowa Friends of Rural Electrification-IAEC PACPAC$3,500
  10. Republican Party of IowaParty$3,332
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2023–24
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$67,58941%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$87,41553%
Party committees State and county party committees$3,3322%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$2500%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$4,8603%
In-kind gifts (included above)$6,5004%

Totals cover their campaign committee only, not money spent by outside groups. In-kind gifts count at their reported value. Party money often passes through caucus committees, which show up here as PACs. How we count campaign money

From Iowa Campaign Contributions Received, published by the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Finance Disclosure Commission under CC BY-NC 4.0. We total and summarize the reports as campaigns filed them. Last checked Nov 7.

Where bills start

Committees

Where they serve

House District 26

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Austin Harris represents House District 26, which takes in parts or all of Davis, Monroe, Appanoose and Wapello counties.

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District lines from the US Census Bureau, drawn in Iowa’s 2021 redistricting. Street map © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenFreeMap.

Legislator details from Open States. Votes last checked Nov 7. Report a mistake