Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa Senate

Tom Townsend

State senator, Senate District 36

Party
Democrat
District
Senate District 36See it on a street map
Committees
10 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 Tom Townsend’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.

$36,060raised in 2025–26, through Dec 29, 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
From Iowa
54%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
53%
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. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers PAC IBEWPAC$13,250
  2. Great Plains Laborers' District Council Iowa PACPAC$5,000
  3. Heavy Highway Political Action CommitteePAC$2,500
  4. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 125 Political Education FundPAC$1,000
  5. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union #33PAC$1,000
  6. Iowa NECA PACPAC$1,000
  7. IBEW Local 364 PACPAC$1,000
  8. Credit Union PACPAC$1,000
  9. North Central States Carpenter PACPAC$1,000
  10. Electrical Workers Local 145 Political Action CommitteePAC$1,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$2,6857%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$33,37593%
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)$00%

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 36

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Tom Townsend represents Senate District 36, which is in Dubuque 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