Iowa Education Legislative Watch
Official portrait of Brett Barker
StateIowa House

Brett Barker

State representative, House District 51

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

Party
Republican
District
House District 51See it on a street map
Committees
House Health and Human Services (vice 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 Brett Barker’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.

$108,837raised in 2025–26, through Oct 14

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Other candidates
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
79%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
15%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 35% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Iowa Health PACPAC$5,750
  2. Cedar Rapids Development Group PACPAC$5,500
  3. IOWA MEDICAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEPAC$4,500
  4. Hy-Vee, Inc. Employees' Political Action CommitteePAC$3,500
  5. RPAC Iowa - REALTORS Political Action CommitteePAC$2,000
  6. VSP HOLDING COMPANY INC PACPAC$2,000
  7. Credit Union PACPAC$2,000
  8. Iowa NECA PACPAC$2,000
  9. Iowa Renewable Fuels Association PAC - IRFAPAC$2,000
  10. IHA PACPAC$2,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$42,10039%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$59,45055%
Party committees State and county party committees$00%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$6331%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$6,6546%
In-kind gifts (included above)$00%

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 51

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Brett Barker represents House District 51, which takes in parts or all of Story and Marshall 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