Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa Senate

Cherielynn Westrich Lame duck: leaving office Jan 11

State senator, Senate District 13

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

Party
Republican
District
Senate District 13See it on a street map
Committees
4 committees
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 Cherielynn Westrich’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.

$4,300raised in 2025–26, through Dec 24, 2025

  • Individuals
  • PACs
From Iowa
88%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
0%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 0% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Justice For All Political Action CommitteePAC$1,000
  2. Iowa NECA PACPAC$1,000
  3. Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILDPAC$1,000
  4. Iowa Association of Nurse Anesthetists PACPAC$300
  5. Iowa Health PACPAC$250
  6. Iowa Professional Fire Fighters PACPAC$250
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$50012%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$3,80088%
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$00%
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 13

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Cherielynn Westrich represents Senate District 13, which takes in parts or all of Davis, Wapello, Monroe and Appanoose 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 6. Report a mistake