Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa House

Ken Croken Lame duck: leaving office Jan 11

State representative, House District 97

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

Party
Democrat
District
House District 97See it on a street map
Committees
4 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 Ken Croken’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.

$27,511raised in 2025–26, through Oct 20

  • Individuals
  • PACs
From Iowa
81%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
26%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 33% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$3,000
  2. Iowa LawpacPAC$3,000
  3. Laborers' 309 Political Action CommitteePAC$2,500
  4. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 Local APAC$2,000
  5. Iowa Committee on Political Education - AFL-CIOPAC$1,000
  6. IOWA MEDICAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEPAC$1,000
  7. Great Plains Laborers' District Council Iowa PACPAC$1,000
  8. Iowa Association of Nurse Anesthetists PACPAC$550
  9. State Police Officers Council- PAC FundPAC$200
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$13,26148%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$14,25052%
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)$5,20719%

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 97

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Ken Croken represents House District 97, which is in Scott 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