Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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Jennifer Smith Lame duck: leaving office Jan 11

State representative, House District 72

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

Party
Republican
District
House District 72See it on a street map
Committees
House State Government (vice 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 Jennifer Smith’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.

$400,732raised in 2023–24, through Nov 24, 2024

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
99%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
26%
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. Republican Party of IowaParty$370,925
  2. Dubuque County Republican Central CommitteeParty$5,900
  3. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action CommitteePAC$2,000
  4. Republican State Leadership CommitteePAC$1,000
  5. Iowa Industry Political Action Committee or IIPACPAC$500
  6. Gilloon Law PLCOrganization$150
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2023–24
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$19,9705%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$3,5001%
Party committees State and county party committees$376,82594%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$4370%
In-kind gifts (included above)$372,32593%

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 72

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Jennifer Smith represents House District 72, which is in Dubuque 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