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Senate District 35

2026 general election · 2-way race · 2025 special: Mike Zimmer (D) +3.6%

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Voter registration (Oct 2026): R+11.2 of 37,378 active voters · R +0.5 since Nov 2024

Democratic 26% · No party 36% · Republican 37% · Other 1%

Mike Zimmer holds 2.8× the campaign cash of Joe Stutting: $75,283.10 to $26,505.97.

Mike Zimmer

Democrat

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

$75,283.10

raised $113,772.95 in the latest report (2026) · $221,509.20 in cash this election (since 2025)

spent $98,614.18 in the same report

plus $199,028.60 in donated goods and services this election (since 2025): staff, mail, polling and the like, which is support rather than money in the bank

Full committee money →

Incumbent · voting record →

Joe Stutting

Republican

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

$26,505.97

raised $133,775.00 in the latest report (2026) · $178,020.00 in cash this election (since 2025)

spent $122,814.96 in the same report

plus $464,982.92 in donated goods and services this election (since 2025): staff, mail, polling and the like, which is support rather than money in the bank

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.

Mike Zimmer · Democrat

Who gives · this election (since 2025)

Individuals 54% ($119,907.78)PACs & committees 46% ($101,550.00)

Shares are of the $221,457.78 that donors gave this election (since 2025). Of the $101,550.00 from PACs and committees, $77,350.00 is from PACs, $5,200.00 from party committees and $19,000.00 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).

$58,781.65 of the individuals' money is from recent rows read from the Ethics Board's public search, which does not say whether a giver is a person or an organization. We count a giver there as an individual unless the state's older records list the same name as an organization or the name is plainly one (a PAC, party, committee, business, trust or union).

Where they live · this election (since 2025)

In the district 10% ($22,559.29)ZIP crosses the district line 15% ($32,656.12)Elsewhere in Iowa 49% ($106,924.01)Iowa, ZIP not mapped 1% ($1,870.25)Outside Iowa 25% ($56,034.84)

Between 10% and 25% of the $220,044.51 whose donor listed an address came from inside the district (Senate District 35) this election (since 2025). It's a range because donor addresses are placed by ZIP code, and some ZIP codes cross the district line.

75% came from somewhere in Iowa and 25% from outside the state. $1,870.25 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.

$221,509.20 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 →

Not in the bars: $51.42 in interest earned on the campaign's own bank accounts (inside the cash total, but income, not a gift) and $199,028.60 in donated goods and services this election (since 2025). The second bar also leaves out $1,413.27 from donors with no usable address on the filing.

Biggest givers to Zimmer · this election (since 2025) Itemized cash: 2025-01-01 to 2026-10-14, the end of its newest report in our copy (filed 2026-10-18); its next report is not in our filings list yet. Last gift 2026-10-13. Bars share one scale across this race's givers.
GiverCash given
Iowa State Education Assn. PAC or ISEA PAC (its page counts since 2023) Des Moines, IA · 1 gift $25,000.00
Fred Hubbell Des Moines, IA · 2 gifts $15,000.00
R Stephen McNally Austin, TX · 1 gift $12,000.00
Justice For All Political Action Committee (its page counts since 2023) Waterloo, IA · 2 gifts $11,000.00
Plumbers & Pipefitters Local Union #25 PAC (its page counts since 2023) Rock Island, IL · 2 gifts $7,500.00

Of 790 named givers. Every gift on file, all years →

Who Zimmer paid · this election (since 2025) Itemized payments: 2025-01-01 to 2026-10-14, the end of its newest report in our copy (filed 2026-10-18); its next report is not in our filings list yet. Last payment 2026-10-13. Payees as typed; one vendor can appear twice. Bars share one scale across this race's payees.
Paid toPaid
Iowa Democratic Party 6 payments $112,870.00
Davenport Printing Company 4 payments $10,523.89
QC Press 4 payments $7,136.77
Foundation Blue Media 1 payment $3,350.00
Mike Zimmer 4 payments $3,240.45
All 37 payees this election (since 2025)
Every payee of Zimmer's committee, this election (since 2025)
Iowa Democratic Party 6 payments $112,870.00
Davenport Printing Company 4 payments $10,523.89
QC Press 4 payments $7,136.77
Foundation Blue Media 1 payment $3,350.00
Mike Zimmer 4 payments $3,240.45
USPS 12 payments $2,565.00
Act Blue Technical Services 64 payments $1,504.82
Carter Printing 2 payments $923.41
Codfish Hollow Barnstormers 1 payment $658.80
Sycamore Media Group 1 payment $550.00
Oath 7 payments $541.26
Clinton County Agricultural Society 1 payment $500.00
United States Postal Service 4 payments $336.00
QC Labor Day Parade Alliance 1 payment $300.00
Sam's Club 1 payment $269.92
David M. Zimmer 1 payment $192.17
Preston Times 1 payment $133.00
Hightail Creamery 1 payment $120.00
Walmart 3 payments $114.76
Scott Hoag Photography 1 payment $100.00
Campaign Verify 1 payment $95.00
Moore Local LLC 1 payment $86.00
Knives of Columbus 1 payment $75.00
Blain's Farm & Fleet 2 payments $71.93
Theisens 3 payments $54.06
Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board 1 payment $50.00
Randy Meier for Iowa 1 payment $45.52
Maquoketa Brewing 1 payment $40.00
Star Bar 1 payment $36.00
Fareway 1 payment $31.96
First Central State Bank 6 payments $25.55
Home Depot 1 payment $22.44
Dewitt Travel Mart 1 payment $12.00
Randy’s Neighborhood Market 1 payment $8.18
Harbor Freight 1 payment $4.00
Menards 1 payment $3.91
PickupforIowa 2 payments -$365.70

$146,226.10 in 146 payments to 37 different recipients this election (since 2025), as this committee itemized them. Its filings report $146,226.10 spent since 2025 (newest report in our copy filed 2026-10-18). The two are the same to the cent.

Joe Stutting · Republican

Who gives · this election (since 2025)

Individuals 33% ($58,295.00)PACs & committees 65% ($116,100.00)Other organizations 2% ($3,625.00)

Shares are of the $178,020.00 that donors gave this election (since 2025). Of the $116,100.00 from PACs and committees, $116,100.00 is from party committees.

$16,135.00 of the individuals' money is from recent rows read from the Ethics Board's public search, which does not say whether a giver is a person or an organization. We count a giver there as an individual unless the state's older records list the same name as an organization or the name is plainly one (a PAC, party, committee, business, trust or union).

Where they live · this election (since 2025)

In the district 8% ($14,510.00)ZIP crosses the district line 11% ($18,755.00)Elsewhere in Iowa 74% ($131,710.00)Iowa, ZIP not mapped <1% ($300.00)Outside Iowa 7% ($12,705.00)

Between 8% and 19% of the $177,980.00 whose donor listed an address came from inside the district (Senate District 35) this election (since 2025). It's a range because donor addresses are placed by ZIP code, and some ZIP codes cross the district line.

93% came from somewhere in Iowa and 7% from outside the state. $300.00 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.

$178,020.00 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 →

Not in the bars: $464,982.92 in donated goods and services this election (since 2025). The second bar also leaves out $40.00 from donors with no usable address on the filing.

Biggest givers to Stutting · this election (since 2025) Itemized cash: 2025-01-01 to 2026-10-14, the end of its newest report in our copy (filed 2026-10-19); its next report is not in our filings list yet. Last gift 2026-10-12. Bars share one scale across this race's givers.
GiverCash given
Republican Party of Iowa (its page counts since 2023) Des Moines, IA · 1 gift $114,600.00
Lawerence Bay Port Byron, IL · 2 gifts $11,000.00
Joe Stutting Princeton, IA · 4 gifts $4,000.00
ABC PAC Grimes, IA · 1 gift $3,000.00
ABI Iowa Industry Political A Des Moines, IA · 1 gift $2,750.00

Of 137 named givers. Every gift on file, all years →

Who Stutting paid · this election (since 2025) Itemized payments: 2025-01-01 to 2026-10-14, the end of its newest report in our copy (filed 2026-10-19); its next report is not in our filings list yet. Last payment 2026-10-13. Payees as typed; one vendor can appear twice. Bars share one scale across this race's payees.
Paid toPaid
Victory Enterprises 29 payments $142,888.59
Joe Stutting 4 payments $2,500.00
Amazon 8 payments $1,545.64
Dennis Campbell 1 payment $1,500.00
Keith and Company 3 payments $1,295.49
All 13 payees this election (since 2025)
Every payee of Stutting's committee, this election (since 2025)
Victory Enterprises 29 payments $142,888.59
Joe Stutting 4 payments $2,500.00
Amazon 8 payments $1,545.64
Dennis Campbell 1 payment $1,500.00
Keith and Company 3 payments $1,295.49
Angelica Hedchymanova 1 payment $600.00
Olena Hedchymanova 1 payment $600.00
Walmart 5 payments $270.04
GT Sport 2 payments $110.47
US Post Office 3 payments $61.40
First Central State Bank 10 payments $59.22
Wlamart 1 payment $50.38
USPS Eldridge 1 payment $32.80

$151,514.03 in 69 payments to 13 different recipients this election (since 2025), as this committee itemized them. Its filings report $151,514.03 spent since 2025 (newest report in our copy filed 2026-10-19). 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: Mike Zimmer (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.

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.

Joe Stutting $1,454/day

$133,775.00 over 92 days · latest report

Mike Zimmer $1,237/day

$113,772.95 over 92 days · latest report

Behind in total cash, Joe Stutting is raising faster by the day right now: $1,454/day versus $1,237/day for Mike Zimmer, 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, 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.