House District 54

2026 general election · 2-way race · 2024: Joshua Meggers unopposed

Voter registration (Sep 2026): R+34.2 of 19,025 active voters · R +0.3 since Nov 2024

Democratic 19% · No party 28% · Republican 53% · Other 1%

Joshua Meggers

Republican

Cash on hand (money in the bank) · as of 2026-07-15

$27,639.36

raised $200.00 in the latest report (2026) · $22,550.00 in cash this election (since 2025)

Biggest donors · cash, since 2023

Associated General Contractors of Iowa PAC $7,000.00

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Political Action Committee $6,000.00

Bankers Unite in Legislative Decisions AKA: BUILD $4,500.00

Full committee money →

Incumbent · voting record →

Leila Ann Staton

Democrat

Cash on hand (money in the bank) · as of 2026-07-24

$24,710.92

raised $4,912.09 in the latest report (2026) · $38,717.37 in cash this election (since 2025)

Biggest donors · cash, since 2023

Theodore Lam $1,680.00

Grundy County Democratic Central Committee $1,250.00

Jody Zimple $712.00

Full committee money →

Where the money comes from

Who gives to each campaign, and where those donors live, for this election (since 2025). Cash the state lists donor-by-donor.

Joshua Meggers · Republican

Who gives · this election (since 2025)

Individuals 33% ($7,550.00)PACs & committees 67% ($15,000.00)

Shares are of the $22,550.00 that donors gave this election (since 2025). Of the $15,000.00 from PACs and committees, $13,000.00 is from PACs and $2,000.00 from committees whose type isn't in the filings we hold (they file no Iowa disclosure report of their own, so the state's records we have don't say whether they are a PAC, a party or a candidate).

Where they live · this election (since 2025)

In the district 2% ($550.00)ZIP crosses the district line 18% ($4,100.00)Elsewhere in Iowa 69% ($15,500.00)Iowa, ZIP not mapped <1% ($100.00)Outside Iowa 10% ($2,300.00)

Between 2% and 21% of the $22,550.00 whose donor listed an address came from inside the district (House District 54) this election (since 2025). It's a range because donor addresses are placed by ZIP code, and some ZIP codes cross the district line.

90% came from somewhere in Iowa and 10% from outside the state. $100.00 of the Iowa money has a ZIP code with no area on the map (a post office box, for example), so it can't be placed in or out of the district.

$22,550.00 in cash this election (since 2025), listed donor-by-donor in the state's itemized feed (the publisher dates the feed 2026-07-14, posted 2026-09-05). · full record →

Leila Ann Staton · Democrat

Who gives · this election (since 2025)

Individuals 93% ($31,283.02)PACs & committees 7% ($2,301.47)Other organizations 1% ($213.99)

Shares are of the $33,798.48 that donors gave this election (since 2025). Of the $2,301.47 from PACs and committees, $2,301.47 is from party committees.

Where they live · this election (since 2025)

In the district 10% ($3,099.00)ZIP crosses the district line 10% ($3,093.37)Elsewhere in Iowa 22% ($7,283.47)Iowa, ZIP not mapped 3% ($885.00)Outside Iowa 56% ($18,174.84)

Between 10% and 19% of the $32,535.68 whose donor listed an address came from inside the district (House District 54) this election (since 2025). It's a range because donor addresses are placed by ZIP code, and some ZIP codes cross the district line.

44% came from somewhere in Iowa and 56% from outside the state. $885.00 of the Iowa money has a ZIP code with no area on the map (a post office box, for example), so it can't be placed in or out of the district.

Its filings report $38,717.37 raised in cash this election (since 2025), and $33,805.28 of that is listed donor-by-donor. The bars use the donor-by-donor part. Its newest report (filed 2026-07-24, $4,912.09 raised, for the period ending 2026-07-14) is not yet in the donor-by-donor rows we hold, so the bars stop at the report before it. · full record →

Not in the bars: $6.80 in interest earned on the campaign's own bank accounts (inside the cash total, but income, not a gift). The second bar also leaves out $1,262.80 from donors with no usable address on the filing.

Method: itemized cash contributions (Schedule A, transaction type CON) since 2025-01-01, refunds netted, the committee's own account interest excluded. Each donor is placed by the state and 5-digit ZIP code on the filing. A ZIP code counts as in the district when at least 98% of its Iowa land area (Census ZCTA) falls inside it, as crossing the line when between 2% and 98% does, and as elsewhere in Iowa otherwise. Iowa ZIP codes with no Census area (post office boxes) are shown on their own. In-kind support and loans are never in either bar.

The seat's record

Current officeholder: Joshua Meggers (Republican) · full voting record →

Voted YES on SF 607 : Unemployment insurance employer tax cut

Voted YES on HF 639 : Hazardous liquid pipeline / eminent domain limits

Voted YES on SF 472 : Public-sector union recertification petitions

Voted YES on HF 2104 : CO2 pipeline eminent domain ban

From the key-votes set on wages, labor, utilities and eminent domain, and school funding — the same set for every legislator, both parties. Each bill is described by what it does; its official title is on the bill page.

Explore win scenarios for this race → what turnout and crossover it would take, on the real electorate

Fundraising rate

New money raised per day of each candidate's latest report — the pace of fundraising, comparable even when reports cover spans of different length. The small bars trace how that pace moved across recent reports.

Leila Ann Staton $81/day

$4,912.09 over 61 days · latest report

Joshua Meggers $3.3/day

$200.00 over 61 days · latest report

Behind in total cash, Leila Ann Staton is raising faster by the day right now — $81/day versus $3.3/day for Joshua Meggers, the current cash leader.

Rate = money raised ÷ days the report covers. ("Money raised" is the report's cash-contribution line — Schedule A.) Faded bars are earlier reports' rates; the solid bar is the latest. State committees only. A period's total can arrive as one large check or many small gifts — the rate can't tell them apart; a committee's donation page breaks its money down by gift size.

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General election: Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Check your registration and polling place with the Iowa Secretary of State. Legislative districts are rarely publicly polled; if a qualifying public poll appears for this race it will be shown here.

Candidates: Iowa Secretary of State 2026 general-election list. Cash figures: each candidate's latest state disclosure filing; a newly announced challenger may not have filed yet. State money only — any federal committee is separate.