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Barb Kniff McCulla Lame duck: leaving office Jan 11

State representative, House District 37

Leaving office Jan 11. Will be replaced by Jason Sandholdt (Republican), who won this seat Nov 3 (unofficial results). See Jason Sandholdt’s profile

Elected to the Iowa Senate, Senate District 19, on Nov 3. Takes that seat Jan 11.

Party
Republican
District
House District 37See it on a street map
Committees
House Labor and Workforce (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 Barb Kniff McCulla’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.

$100,285raised in 2025–26, through Oct 14

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Other candidates
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
92%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
8%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 58% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$10,000
  2. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action CommitteePAC$10,000
  3. Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILDPAC$5,000
  4. Iowa Industry Political Action Committee or IIPACPAC$4,000
  5. MuniPACPAC$2,500
  6. FUELIowa PACPAC$2,500
  7. Iowa Health PACPAC$2,000
  8. FASPAC - Fareway Stores, Inc PACPAC$2,000
  9. Truck PAC Iowa (formerly Motor Carriers PAC)PAC$2,000
  10. Deere & Company PAC - Iowa (Deere PAC-Iowa)PAC$2,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$27,05927%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$68,60068%
Party committees State and county party committees$5000%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$1,0001%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$3,1263%
In-kind gifts (included above)$3,4623%

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 37

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Barb Kniff McCulla represents House District 37, which takes in parts or all of Marion, Mahaska and Jasper 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