Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa Senate

Kara Warme

State senator, Senate District 26

Party
Republican
District
Senate District 26See it on a street map
Committees
Administrative Rules Review (chair); Senate Health and Human Services (chair); Early Childhood Interim (co-chair); Health Policy Oversight (co-chair); Subacute Mental Health Care Services Interim Study (co-chair)
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 Kara Warme’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.

$107,427raised in 2025–26, through Dec 30, 2025

This Senate seat wasn’t on the 2026 ballot. Senators serve four-year terms, and this one is next up in 2028, so there was little to raise for.

  • Individuals
  • PACs
From Iowa
88%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
7%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 73% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Iowa Health PACPAC$8,000
  2. FASPAC - Fareway Stores, Inc PACPAC$5,000
  3. Cedar Rapids Development Group PACPAC$3,500
  4. Wellmark, Inc. PAC or WellPACPAC$2,000
  5. Manufactured Housing Political Action Committee #6096PAC$1,200
  6. Alliant Energy Employees' Iowa PACPAC$1,200
  7. Iowa Automobile Dealers Association PACPAC$1,000
  8. Iowa Society of Anesthesiologists Political Action CommitteePAC$1,000
  9. Iowa Dental Political Action CommitteePAC$1,000
  10. VSP HOLDING COMPANY INC PACPAC$1,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$62,27758%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$45,15042%
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)$4520%

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 26

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Kara Warme represents Senate District 26, which takes in parts or all of Marshall and Story 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