Iowa's 10th Senate district

The 10th District of the Iowa Senate is located in Western Iowa, and is currently composed of the cities of Council Bluffs and Carter Lake in Pottawattamie County.^[1]

Iowa's 10th State Senate district
Senator	Dan Dawson R

Current elected officials

Dan Dawson is the senator currently representing the 10th District.

The area of the 10th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives:

• The 19th District (represented by Brent Siegrist)
• The 20th District (represented by Josh Turek)

The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.

List of representatives

Source:^[2]

Representative	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
Richard Harbour		Democrat	1846-1849	Mahaska County
Joseph Lowe		Democrat	1851-1851	Keokuk County
Hadley Johnson		Democrat	1852-1853	Council Bluffs, Iowa
James Test		Democrat	1854-1855	Council Bluffs, Iowa
John Warner		Democrat	1856-1859	Decatur County
James F. Wilson		Republican	1860-1861	Fairfield, Iowa	Wilson was elected to the US House of Representatives for Iowa's 1st congressional district in 1861.
Joshua Shaffer		Republican	1862-1863	Jefferson County
Theron Woolson		Republican	1864-1867	Henry County
Charles Matthies		Republican	1868	Burlington, Iowa	Senator Matthies died in office in 1868.
Charles Beardsley		Republican	1870-1873	Burlington, Iowa
John Williams		Republican	1874-1877	Des Moines County
John Woolson		Republican	1878-1881	Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Lot Abraham		Republican	1882-1885	Mount Pleasant, Iowa
John Woolson		Republican	1886-1891	Mount Pleasant, Iowa
David Palmer		Republican	1892-1899	Washington, Iowa
Amos Alberson		Democrat	1900-1901	Washington, Iowa
John Alex Young		Republican	1902-1906	Washington, Iowa
William Seeley		Republican	1907-1910	Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Samuel Neal		Republican	1911-1914	Washington, Iowa
John Lindly		Democrat	1915-1918	Winfield, Iowa
James Brookhart		Republican	1919-1926	Washington, Iowa	Senator Brookhart died in office in 1926.
William Carden		Republican	1927-1934	Henry County
Arthur C. Dewey		Republican	1935-1942	Washington, Iowa
Harlan Foster		Republican	1943-1950	Henry County
Carl Anderson		Republican	1951-1958	Washington County
Clifford Vance		Republican	1959-1962	Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Richard Stephens		Republican	1963-1966	Ainsworth, Iowa
Bass Van Gilst		Democrat	1967-1970	Mahaska
Ralph Potter		Republican	1971-1972	Linn County
Mike Blouin		Democrat	1973-1974	Dubuque County
Robert Carr		Democrat	1974-1982	Dubuque County
Alvin Miller		Democrat	1983-1992	Cerro Gordo County
Merlin Bartz		Republican	1993-2001	Worth County	Senator Bartz resigned in 2001 to take a position in the US Department of Agriculture.
Amanda Ragan		Democrat	2002	Cerro Gordo County
Donald Redfern		Republican	2003-2004	Black Hawk County
Jeff Danielson		Democrat	2005-2012	Black Hawk County
Jake Chapman		Republican	2013-2022	Adel, Iowa
Dan Dawson		Republican	2023-Present	Council Bluffs, Iowa

Historical district boundaries

Map	Description	Years effective	Notes
	Keokuk County Mahaska County	1846-1849	From 1846 to 1857, district numbering was not utilized by the Iowa State Legislature. This convention was added with the passing of the 1857 Iowa Constitution. Numbering of districts pre-1857 is done as a matter of historic convenience.[3]
	Keokuk County Mahaska County Poweshiek County	1850-1851
	Pottawattamie County	1852-1855
	Appanoose County Decatur County Wayne County	1856-1859
	Jefferson County	1860-1863
	Henry County	1864-1867
	Des Moines County	1868-1877
	Henry County	1878-1883
	Henry County Jefferson County	1884-1887
	Henry County Washington County	1888-1962
	Louisa County Washington County	1963-1966
	Keokuk County Mahaska County	1967-1970
	Buchanan County Delaware County (partial) Linn County (partial)	1971-1972	In 1970, the Iowa Legislature passed an amendment to the Iowa Constitution setting forth the rules for legislative redistricting in order to abide by the rules established by the Reynolds v. Sims Supreme Court case. The first reapportionment map created by the Republican controlled legislature was deemed unconstitutional, but was still used for the 1970 election.[4]
	Dubuque County (partial) Dubuque	1973-1982
	Cerro Gordo County (partial) Winnebago County (partial) Worth County	1983-1992
	Cerro Gordo County Mitchell County (partial) Worth County	1993-2002
	Black Hawk County (partial) Black Hawk Township Cedar Falls Township Lincoln Township Union Township Cedar Falls Hudson Western half of Waterloo	2003-2012	[5]
	Adair County Cass County (partial) Benton Township Franklin Township Grant Township Lincoln Township Anita Wiota Dallas County (partial) Excluding Waukee West Des Moines Guthrie County Polk County (partial) Madison Township Union Township Granger Polk City Sheldahl	2013-2022
	Pottawattamie County (partial) Carter Lake Council Bluffs Excluding neighborhoods to the east of Interstate 80	2023-present

See also

• Iowa General Assembly
• Iowa Senate