Of the 8,410 voters registered to vote in Ward 2, Tuesday's special election saw 951 ballots cast for a 11.31% voter turnout. A candidate must have secured 50 percent, plus one vote, to win.

Republicans are promoting a disputed internal poll in Iowa's Democratic U.S. Senate primary, while national Democrats quietly ...

DES MOINES — Democrats running this year in Iowa’s 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts are two of a dozen candidates across the country receiving a boost from national Democrats as the party hopes to ...

Democrats in Iowa and across the country have been trumpeting the news of Catelin Drey’s special election victory to the state Senate, arguing it’s a clear sign that red-state voters are ready for a ...

The results are in for two Central Iowa special elections. Three city council seats were up for grabs in Mitchellville in ...

Voters in Waterloo are heading to the polls today for a special election to fill a vacancy on the City Council.

Iowa’s top election official and a group of voters the state had flagged as potential noncitizens just ahead of the 2024 presidential election settled a federal lawsuit that will prevent the state fro ...

Iowans will soon head to the polls to cast their votes in the 2025 city council and school board elections. Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and you can find your precinct and polling place ...

DES MOINES - Iowa Democrats were riding high after the 2008 election of Barack Obama, whom they helped catapult into the White House with the Iowa Caucuses earlier that year. Their political clout was ...

What do you want from Iowa’s next governor? We won’t set a firm word limit, but concise answers usually stand a better chance of being published. Email responses to letters@dmreg.com by Aug. 18.

Iowa should not abandon its primary system for a complicated, multiple-choice voting process that would blur party lines and weaken voters’ right to freely associate through the political party of ...

The naturalized U.S. citizens sued Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate in late October 2024, alleging he infringed on their ...