Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa Senate

Matt Blake

State senator, Senate District 22

Party
Democrat
District
Senate District 22See it on a street map
Committees
8 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 Matt Blake’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.

$1,226,784raised in 2023–24, through Dec 31, 2024

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
80%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
50%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 26% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Iowa Democratic PartyParty$652,929
  2. The PAC for America's Future - FECPAC$200,000
  3. Iowans for Health Liberty PACPAC$24,000
  4. The PAC for America's Future - PAPAC$12,000
  5. The Bipartisan Network PACPAC$10,000
  6. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers PAC IBEWPAC$10,000
  7. Heavy Highway Political Action CommitteePAC$10,000
  8. Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa PACPAC$9,852
  9. Central Iowa Building and Construction Trades CouncilPACPAC$7,500
  10. Justice For All Political Action CommitteePAC$7,500
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2023–24
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$231,99919%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$339,71128%
Party committees State and county party committees$652,92953%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$2,1450%
In-kind gifts (included above)$660,59254%

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 22

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Matt Blake represents Senate District 22, which is in Polk 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