Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa House

Bill Gustoff Lame duck: leaving office Jan 11

State representative, House District 40

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

Party
Republican
District
House District 40See it on a street map
Committees
House Ethics (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 Bill Gustoff’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.

$491,899raised in 2025–26, through Oct 13

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
97%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
17%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 42% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Republican Party of IowaParty$311,547
  2. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$11,500
  3. Iowa LawpacPAC$9,000
  4. RPAC Iowa - REALTORS Political Action CommitteePAC$6,000
  5. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action CommitteePAC$6,000
  6. IFC PACPAC$5,500
  7. Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILDPAC$5,000
  8. Wellmark, Inc. PAC or WellPACPAC$5,000
  9. Iowa Industry Political Action Committee or IIPACPAC$4,250
  10. Truck PAC Iowa (formerly Motor Carriers PAC)PAC$2,500
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$96,20020%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$83,10017%
Party committees State and county party committees$311,54763%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$1,0510%
In-kind gifts (included above)$316,37864%

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 40

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Bill Gustoff represents House District 40, which is in Polk County.

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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 6. Report a mistake