Iowa Education Legislative Watch
Official portrait of Steven Holt
StateIowa House

Steven Holt

State representative, House District 12

Re-elected Nov 3 (unofficial results). Serving another term.

Party
Republican
District
House District 12See it on a street map
Committees
House Judiciary (chair)
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 Steven Holt’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.

$87,966raised in 2025–26, through Oct 13

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
96%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
35%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 28% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$8,000
  2. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action CommitteePAC$5,000
  3. Iowa Health PACPAC$4,000
  4. Justice For All Political Action CommitteePAC$3,500
  5. Crawford County Republican Central CommitteeParty$3,000
  6. Iowa LawpacPAC$3,000
  7. Iowa Friends of Rural Electrification-IAEC PACPAC$2,500
  8. Iowa Automobile Dealers Association PACPAC$2,250
  9. The Family Leader PACPAC$2,000
  10. Truck PAC Iowa (formerly Motor Carriers PAC)PAC$1,500
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$32,73037%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$48,50055%
Party committees State and county party committees$3,7004%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$3,0363%
In-kind gifts (included above)$4,3915%

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 12

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Steven Holt represents House District 12, which takes in parts or all of Crawford, Ida and Shelby 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