Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa House

Carter Nordman

State representative, House District 47

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

Party
Republican
District
House District 47See it on a street map
Committees
House Ways and Means (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 Carter Nordman’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.

$352,928raised in 2025–26, through Oct 14

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Other candidates
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
87%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
14%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 52% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. RPAC Iowa - REALTORS Political Action CommitteePAC$16,000
  2. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$15,000
  3. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action CommitteePAC$14,000
  4. Iowa Health PACPAC$13,025
  5. IHA PACPAC$12,000
  6. Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILDPAC$10,000
  7. Manufactured Housing Political Action Committee #6096PAC$7,500
  8. Credit Union PACPAC$7,500
  9. IOWA MEDICAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEPAC$7,000
  10. NAIFA-Iowa IFAPACPAC$6,500
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$67,70919%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$272,67877%
Party committees State and county party committees$1000%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$1,2830%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$11,1573%
In-kind gifts (included above)$2,4321%

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 47

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Carter Nordman represents House District 47, which takes in parts or all of Guthrie, Greene and Dallas 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