Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa Senate

Mike Klimesh

State senator, Senate District 32

Party
Republican
District
Senate District 32See it on a street map
Committees
Senate Rules and Administration (chair); Fuel Distribution Percentage Formula Review (co-chair); Administration (vice chair); Legislative Council (vice chair); Service (vice chair); Studies (vice 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 Mike Klimesh’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.

$528,018raised in 2025–26, through Dec 31, 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
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
83%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
1%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 88% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Iowa Health PACPAC$42,500
  2. Hy-Vee, Inc. Employees' Political Action CommitteePAC$26,500
  3. IHA PACPAC$15,000
  4. Manufactured Housing Political Action Committee #6096PAC$10,250
  5. NextEra Energy, Inc. Political Action CommitteePAC$10,000
  6. Associated Builders & Contractors of Iowa Political Action CPAC$10,000
  7. Iowa BEV PAC #6098PAC$10,000
  8. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$10,000
  9. Citizens for Preservation of RacingPAC$7,500
  10. NAIFA-Iowa IFAPACPAC$7,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$215,26841%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$307,50058%
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$5,2501%
In-kind gifts (included above)$1,8560%

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 32

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Mike Klimesh represents Senate District 32, which takes in parts or all of Clayton, Winneshiek, Allamakee, Howard, Fayette and Dubuque 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