Iowa Education Legislative Watch
Official portrait of Jeff Cooling
StateIowa House

Jeff Cooling

State representative, House District 77

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

Party
Democrat
District
House District 77See it on a street map
Committees
6 committees
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 Jeff Cooling’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.

$35,164raised in 2025–26, through Oct 14

  • Individuals
  • PACs
From Iowa
69%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
69%
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. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers PAC IBEWPAC$8,000
  2. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$5,000
  3. Credit Union PACPAC$3,000
  4. MidAmerican Energy Company PACPAC$1,500
  5. Wellmark, Inc. PAC or WellPACPAC$1,000
  6. Heavy Highway Political Action CommitteePAC$1,000
  7. Great Plains Laborers' District Council Iowa PACPAC$1,000
  8. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 125 Political Education FundPAC$1,000
  9. Iowa NECA PACPAC$1,000
  10. MuniPACPAC$1,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$1,0643%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$34,10097%
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

House District 77

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Jeff Cooling represents House District 77, which is in Linn County.

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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