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Senate District 31

2026 general election · uncontested as of 2026-08-19 · 2022: Bill Dotzler (D) unopposed

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Senate District 31: dated and sourced figures, sized for each platform.

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Voter registration (Oct 2026): D+17.1 of 28,061 active voters · D +1.4 since Nov 2024

Democratic 43% · No party 31% · Republican 26% · Other 1%

Timi Brown Powers

Democrat

Cash on hand (money in the bank) · July 14, 2026

$15,977.85

raised $1,009.60 in the latest report (2026) · $10,184.60 in cash this election (since 2025)

spent $397.77 in the same report

Full committee money →

Follow the money

Where the money comes from and where it goes: who gives to each campaign, where those donors live, its biggest givers and who it paid, for this election (since 2025). Cash the state lists donor-by-donor and payee-by-payee.

Timi Brown Powers · Democrat

Who gives · this election (since 2025)

Individuals 20% ($2,075.00)PACs & committees 80% ($8,100.00)Other organizations <1% ($9.60)

Shares are of the $10,184.60 that donors gave this election (since 2025).

Where they live · this election (since 2025)

ZIP crosses the district line 3% ($275.00)Elsewhere in Iowa 87% ($8,900.00)Iowa, ZIP not mapped 10% ($1,000.00)Outside Iowa <1% ($9.60)

Between 0% and 3% of the $10,184.60 whose donor listed an address came from inside the district (Senate District 31) this election (since 2025). It's a range because donor addresses are placed by ZIP code, and some ZIP codes cross the district line.

>99% came from somewhere in Iowa and <1% from outside the state. $1,000.00 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.

$10,184.60 in cash this election (since 2025), listed donor-by-donor in the state's itemized records (the rows we hold reach 2026-10-20: the publisher's extract, dated 2026-07-14, plus the Ethics Board's public search, read 2026-10-19). · full record →

Biggest givers to Powers · this election (since 2025) Itemized cash: 2025-01-01 to 2026-07-14, the end of its newest report in our copy (filed 2026-07-10); its next report is not in our filings list yet. Last gift 2026-07-10. Bars share one scale across this race's givers.
GiverCash given
Iowa Health PAC (its page counts since 2023) West Des Moines, IA · 1 gift $2,000.00
Hy-Vee, Inc. Employees' Political Action Committee (its page counts since 2023) West Des Moines, IA · 1 gift $1,500.00
Great Plains Laborers' District Council Iowa PAC (its page counts since 2023) Des Moines, IA · 1 gift $1,000.00
Robert Fahr Waterloo, IA · 1 gift $1,000.00
Credit Union PAC (its page counts since 2023) West Des Moines, IA · 1 gift $500.00

Of 23 named givers. 4 more givers also gave $500.00; equal amounts are listed by name. Every gift on file, all years →

Who Powers paid · this election (since 2025) Itemized payments: 2025-01-01 to 2026-07-14, the end of its newest report in our copy (filed 2026-07-10); its next report is not in our filings list yet. Last payment 2026-07-10. Payees as typed; one vendor can appear twice. Bars share one scale across this race's payees.
Paid toPaid
Timi Brown-Powers 5 payments $1,847.77
House Truman Fund 1 payment $800.00
The Grout Museum 2 payments $500.00
Riverview Center 1 payment $500.00
Carter Printing 2 payments $340.88
All 8 payees this election (since 2025)
Every payee of Powers's committee, this election (since 2025)
Timi Brown-Powers 5 payments $1,847.77
House Truman Fund 1 payment $800.00
The Grout Museum 2 payments $500.00
Riverview Center 1 payment $500.00
Carter Printing 2 payments $340.88
Black Hawk County Democratic Central Committee 1 payment $250.00
Iowa Pride PAC 1 payment $250.00
Northeast Iowa Foodbank 1 payment $250.00

$4,738.65 in 14 payments to 8 different recipients this election (since 2025), as this committee itemized them. Its filings report $4,738.65 spent since 2025 (newest report in our copy filed 2026-07-10). The two are the same to the cent.

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.

Biggest givers: the same cash rows, added up by the giver's name as filed (one giver filed under two spellings appears twice), refunds netted, a committee's receipts under its own code and its account interest left out; in-kind support and loans are not in the list. A linked giver is a state-registered committee; its page counts what it reported paying, since 2023, so its figure can differ from the one here. Givers without a link have no page on this site: people, and organizations that are not among the state-registered committees it tracks. Who each campaign paid: itemized payments since 2025-01-01, refunds netted, loan repayments left out, payees as each treasurer typed them, joined only by case, punctuation and legal form (Inc., LLC), so one vendor typed two ways can appear twice. Basis: itemized records, which list each gift and payment, not the totals reported on filings. Source: Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board contributions and expenditures (the rows we hold reach 2026-10-20: the publisher's extract, dated 2026-07-14, plus the Ethics Board's public search, read 2026-10-19; payments in our copy downloaded 2026-10-24).

The seat's record

Current officeholder: William A. Dotzler Jr. (Democrat) · full voting record →

Voted NO on SF 607 : Unemployment insurance employer tax cut

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

Voted NO on SF 167 : FY2026 school funding, 2% SSA

Voted NO on SF 472 : Public-sector union recertification petitions

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.

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.

Timi Brown Powers $17/day

$1,009.60 over 61 days · latest report

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, and 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.