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Governor

2026 general election · 2-way race · cash on hand (money in the bank) from state disclosure filings

Sand holds 17.2× the campaign cash of Lahn — $17,957,959.32 to $1,045,364.82.

Rob Sand

Democrat

Cash on hand

$17,957,959.32

state disclosure filing, as of 2026-07-20 · committee record →

Zach Lahn

Republican

Cash on hand

$1,045,364.82

state disclosure filing, as of 2026-07-20 · committee record →

The polling

Rob Sand 49.0 Zach Lahn 44.8 Sand +4.2

Iowa Ledger average of 4 polls, Aug 4–Sep 1, 2026. Every poll and its source →

Where the money comes from

Rob Sand

Who gives · this election (since 2023)

Individuals 98% ($27,513,112.15)PACs & committees 2% ($594,255.21)Other organizations <1% ($19,758.13)

Shares are of the $28,127,125.49 that donors gave this election (since 2023). Of the $594,255.21 from PACs and committees, $148,418.21 is from PACs, $5,037.00 from party committees and $440,800.00 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 2023)

In Iowa 72% ($20,118,594.79)Outside Iowa 28% ($8,004,292.67)

72% of the $28,122,887.46 whose donor listed an address came from Iowa and 28% from other states, led by Florida ($2,196,256.82) and California ($1,776,702.64).

Its filings report $38,161,141.17 raised in cash this election (since 2023), and $28,775,495.65 of that is listed donor-by-donor. The bars use the donor-by-donor part. Its newest report (filed 2026-07-20, $9,385,645.52 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: $648,370.16 in interest earned on the campaign's own bank accounts (inside the cash total, but income, not a gift) and $46,622.52 in donated goods and services this election (since 2023). The second bar also leaves out $4,238.03 from donors with no usable address on the filing.

Biggest donors

Christine Sand $4,500,247.00

Nixon Lauridsen $4,019,000.00

Nancy Lauridsen $2,000,000.00

Zach Lahn

Who gives · this election (since 2023)

Individuals 98% ($1,149,103.14)Other organizations 2% ($25,000.00)

Shares are of the $1,174,103.14 that donors gave this election (since 2023).

Where they live · this election (since 2023)

In Iowa 25% ($298,932.28)Outside Iowa 75% ($875,170.86)

25% of the $1,174,103.14 whose donor listed an address came from Iowa and 75% from other states, led by Texas ($434,119.35) and Tennessee ($271,048.58).

Its filings report $7,569,963.88 raised in cash this election (since 2023), and $1,197,133.02 of that is listed donor-by-donor. The bars use the donor-by-donor part. Its newest report (filed 2026-07-20, $6,372,830.86 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: $23,029.88 in interest earned on the campaign's own bank accounts (inside the cash total, but income, not a gift), $21,569.02 in donated goods and services this election (since 2023) and $2,500,000.00 in loans the campaign received this election (since 2023), money it owes back and often the candidate's own.

Biggest donors

Richard Spanton $250,000.00

Jana Scharnberg $250,000.00

Patricia Tippie $150,000.00

Method: itemized cash contributions (Schedule A, transaction type CON) since 2023, refunds netted, the committee's own account interest excluded. Each donor is placed by the state on the filing. In-kind support and loans are never in either bar.

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.

Rob Sand $153,863/day

$9,385,645.52 over 61 days · latest report

Zach Lahn $104,473/day

$6,372,830.86 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. 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.

Candidates: Iowa Secretary of State 2026 general-election list. State cash on hand is each committee's latest state disclosure filing; federal cash is the FEC-reported figure for the candidate's registration for this office. A candidate who holds a registration only for a different office shows no figure rather than that other committee's balance. State and federal money are never combined in a single figure. Funding mix is current-cycle itemized contributions.