Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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Shannon Latham Lame duck: leaving office Jan 11

State representative, House District 55

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

Party
Republican
District
House District 55See it on a street map
Committees
7 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 Shannon Latham’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.

$12,928raised in 2025–26, through Oct 17, 2025

  • Individuals
  • PACs
From Iowa
92%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
58%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 0% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Cedar Rapids Development Group PACPAC$2,000
  2. Credit Union PACPAC$1,000
  3. Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILDPAC$1,000
  4. RPAC Iowa - REALTORS Political Action CommitteePAC$1,000
  5. Iowa Optometric AssociationPAC$700
  6. Casey's PACPAC$500
  7. Iowa Health PACPAC$500
  8. ITC Holdings Corp PACPAC$500
  9. Citizens for Preservation of RacingPAC$500
  10. Golden Grain Energy State PACPAC$500
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$1,55312%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$11,37588%
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)$7536%

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 55

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Shannon Latham represents House District 55, which takes in parts or all of Franklin, Hamilton, Wright 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 6. Report a mistake