1934 Iowa Senate election

← 1932 November 6, 1934 1936 →
22 out of 50 seats in theIowa State Senate 26 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Party Democratic Republican Last election 25 25 Seats before 24[a] 26[a] Seats after 28 22 Seat change 4 4
Results      Democratic gain     Republican gain      Democratic hold     Republican hold

The1934 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of thebiennial 1934United States elections.Iowa voters elected state senators in 22 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in theIowa State Senate.

A statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1934 elections is provided by theIowa General Assemblyhere.

The primary election on June 4, 1934, determined which candidates appeared on the November 6, 1934 general election ballot.^[2][3]

Following the previous election,Republicans andDemocrats each held 25 seats. Lieutenant GovernorNelson Kraschel was a Democrat and wielded power as President of theIowa Senate.^[4] Following a special election in 1933 indistrict 45, Republicans flipped the forty-fifth district to their party. Therefore, on election day in November 1934, Republicans held 26 seats to Democrats' 24.

To claim control of the chamber fromRepublicans, theDemocrats needed to net 2 Senate seats.

Democrats gained control of theIowa State Senate following the 1934 general election with the balance of power shifting toDemocrats holding 28 seats andRepublicans having 22 seats (a net gain of 4 seats for Democrats).

• Note: The 28holdover Senators not up for re-election are not listed on this table.

Source:^[5]

• NOTE: The 28 districts that did not hold elections in 1934 are not listed here.

• Note: If a district does not list a primary, then that district did not have a competitive primary (i.e., there may have only been one candidate file for that district).^[6]

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