Iowa Education Legislative Watch
Official portrait of Tracy Ehlert
StateIowa House

Tracy Ehlert

State representative, House District 79

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

Party
Democrat
District
House District 79See it on a street map
Committees
6 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 Tracy Ehlert’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.

$28,666raised in 2025–26, through Oct 14

  • Individuals
  • PACs
  • Party committees
  • Businesses and other
From Iowa
90%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
72%
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. Iowa Democratic PartyParty$3,850
  2. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$3,000
  3. Linn County Democratic Central CommitteeParty$2,000
  4. Iowa Health PACPAC$1,500
  5. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 125 Political Education FundPAC$1,500
  6. Heavy Highway Political Action CommitteePAC$1,500
  7. Operating Engineers Local 234 Political FundPAC$1,500
  8. Cedar Rapids Trades Council CR IC Building Trades PACPAC$1,250
  9. Credit Union PACPAC$1,000
  10. Great Plains Laborers' District Council Iowa PACPAC$1,000
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$3,20411%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$19,51068%
Party committees State and county party committees$5,85020%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$1020%
In-kind gifts (included above)$3,96214%

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 79

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Tracy Ehlert represents House District 79, which is in Linn 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