Iowa Education Legislative Watch
Official portrait of Dave Rowley
StateIowa Senate

Dave Rowley

State senator, Senate District 5

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

Party
Republican
District
Senate District 5See it on a street map
Committees
5 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 Dave Rowley’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.

$37,698raised in 2023–24, through Dec 20, 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
  • Party committees
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
77%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
36%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 21% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILDPAC$5,000
  2. Cedar Rapids Development Group PACPAC$3,500
  3. ROCKET STATE PACPAC$3,500
  4. Credit Union PACPAC$1,500
  5. Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa PACPAC$1,000
  6. JT Broin TrustOrganization$1,000
  7. National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies PoliticalPAC$1,000
  8. Delivers PACPAC$1,000
  9. RPAC Iowa - REALTORS Political Action CommitteePAC$1,000
  10. Dickinson County Republican Central CommitteeParty$1,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2023–24
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$4,79613%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$30,78482%
Party committees State and county party committees$1,0003%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$1,1183%
In-kind gifts (included above)$960%

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 5

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Dave Rowley represents Senate District 5, which takes in parts or all of Kossuth, Palo Alto, Dickinson, Emmet, Winnebago and Clay 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