Iowa Education Legislative Watch
Official portrait of Carrie Koelker
StateIowa Senate

Carrie Koelker

State senator, Senate District 33

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

Party
Republican
District
Senate District 33See it on a street map
Committees
Senate Commerce (vice chair)
Tracked votes
75
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 Carrie Koelker’s campaign for the Iowa Senate, 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.

$81,461raised in 2023–24, through Dec 31, 2024

This Senate seat wasn’t on the 2024 ballot. Senators serve four-year terms, and this one is next up in 2026, so there was little to raise for.

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
90%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
19%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 43% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. RPAC Iowa - REALTORS Political Action CommitteePAC$7,000
  2. Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILDPAC$5,000
  3. FUELIowa PACPAC$4,000
  4. Cedar Rapids Development Group PACPAC$3,750
  5. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$3,000
  6. Elite PACPAC$3,000
  7. MuniPACPAC$2,900
  8. Iowa Telecommunications Assoc - PACPAC$2,500
  9. Credit Union PACPAC$2,000
  10. ITC Holdings Corp PACPAC$2,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2023–24
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$11,54514%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$69,90086%
Party committees State and county party committees$00%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$150%
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

Senate District 33

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Carrie Koelker represents Senate District 33, which takes in parts or all of Jones, Jackson and Dubuque 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