Iowa's 3rd Senate district

The 3rd district of the Iowa Senate, located in Northwestern Iowa, is currently composed of Buena Vista, Osceola, and O'Brien counties, and parts of Cherokee and Clay counties.^[1] Its current member of the Iowa Senate is Republican Lynn Evans.

Iowa's 3rd State Senate district
Senator	Lynn Evans R

Current elected officials

Republican Lynn Evans has been the senator representing the 3rd District since 2023.

The area of the 3rd District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:^[2]

• The 5th District (represented by Zach Dieken)
• The 6th District (represented by Megan Jones)

The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.^[3]

List of representatives

Source:^[4]

Representative	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
John Jackson Selman		Democratic	1846–1851	Bloomfield
George Schramm		Whig	1852–1855	Farmington
John Brice Spees		Whig	1852–1853	Birmingham
Abner Harrison McCrary		Whig	1854–1857
Gideon Smith Bailey		Democratic	1858–1859	Vernon
Cyrus Bussey		Democratic	1860–1862	Bloomfield	Called to the Army in February, 1862[5]
James Pollard		Democratic	1862–1863	Bloomfield
Samuel Alphonso Moore		Republican	1864–1867
Henry Clay Traverse		Republican	1868–1871	Bloomfield
Horatio Wonn		Democratic	1872–1877
Joshua Miller		Republican	1878–1879	Centerville
Jesse J. Wall		Greenback	1880–1883	Centerville
Edward Gault		Democratic	1884–1887	Cincinnati
William Henry Taylor		Democratic	1888–1891	Bloomfield
Ephraim Reynolds		Republican	1892–1895	Centerville
Beryl F. Carroll		Republican	1896–1899	Bloomfield
Claude R. Porter		Democratic	1900–1903	Centerville
Lewis Leroy Taylor		Democratic	1904–1912	Centerville
James M. Wilson		Republican	1913–1920	Centerville
John Jesse Ethell		Republican	1921–1924	Bloomfield
Lloyd Ellis		Democratic	1925–1928	Chariton
Herbert B. Carroll		Republican	1929–1932
John K. Valentine		Democrat	1933–1936	Centerville	Elected lieutenant governor in 1936
Hugh Guernsey		Democrat	1936–1940	Centerville
Dewey Goode		Republican	1941–1944	Bloomfield
James R. Barkley		Republican	1945–1948	Moulton	Died in office, July 8, 1948
David Sherman West		Democrat	1949–1952	Moulton
Ted D. Clark		Republican	1953–1956	Mystic
Gene Lyle Hoffman		Democrat	1957–1960	West Grove
Joe N. Wilson		Republican	1961–1964	Unionville
Donald S. McGill		Democrat	1965–1970	Melrose
Wayne D. Keith		Republican	1971–1973	Oak Lake
Warren E. Curtis		Republican	1972–1978	Cherokee County
Arne Waldstein		Republican	1979–1982	Buena Vista County
Douglas Ritsema		Republican	1983–1986	Sioux County
Wilmer Rensink		Republican	1987–1998	Sioux Center
Ken Veenstra		Republican	1999–2002	Sioux County
David Johnson		Republican	2003–2012	Ocheyedan
Bill Anderson		Republican	2013–2017	Pierson	Resigned from office in 2017
Jim Carlin		Republican	2017–2022	Sioux City
Lynn Evans		Republican	2023–present	Cherokee County

Historical district boundaries

Source:^[6]

Map	Description	Years effective	Notes
	Appanoose County Davis 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.[7]
	Appanoose County Davis County Wayne County	1850–1851
	Van Buren County	1852–1855
	Van Buren County	1856–1859	District 3 included a portion of district 2 during this period.[8]
	Davis County	1860–1877
	Appanoose County	1878–1883
	Appanoose County Monroe County	1884–1887
	Appanoose County Davis County	1888–1962
	Lucas County Monroe County Wayne County	1963–1966
	Appanoose County Lucas County Monroe County	1967–1970
	Emmet County Humboldt County Kossuth County	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.[9]
	Buena Vista County (partial) Cherokee County (partial) Clay County (partial) Palo Alto County (partial) Plymouth County (partial) Pocahontas County (partial) O'Brien County (partial)	1973–1982
	Plymouth County Sioux County (partial) Woodbury County (partial)	1983–1992
	Lyon County O'Brien County (partial) Osceola County Sioux County	1993–2002
	Clay County Dickinson County O'Brien County Osceola County Sioux County (partial) Grant Township Lynn Township Floyd Township East Orange Township	2003–2012
	Plymouth County (partial) Excluding Meadow Township Remsen Township Henry Township Garfield Township Including Kingsley, Iowa Woodbury County (partial) Excluding Rock Township Morgan Township Miller Township Liston Township Oto Township Little Sioux Township Willow Township Sloan Township Concord Township Sioux City, Iowa approximately north of US20 Anthon, Iowa	2013–2022
	Buena Vista County Cherokee County (partial) Liberty Township Cedar Township Cherokee Township Pilot Township Silver Township Spring Township Afton Township Pitcher Township Diamond Township Clay County (partial) Lone Tree Township excluding Everly Riverton Township Clay Township Lincoln Township Gillett Grove Township Logan Township Peterson Township Douglas Township Herdland Township Garfield Township Spencer, Iowa O'Brien County Osceola County	2023–present

See also

• Iowa General Assembly
• Iowa Senate