Iowa's 7th Senate district

The 7th district of the Iowa Senate is located in Western Iowa; it is currently composed Monona County, and of parts of Cherokee, Plymouth, and Woodbury counties.^[1] Its current member of the Iowa Senate is Republican Kevin Alons.

Iowa's 7th State Senate district
Senator	Kevin Alons R

Current elected officials

Kevin Alons is the senator currently representing the 7th District.

The area of the 7th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:^[2]

• The 13th District (represented by Ken Carlson)
• The 14th District (represented by Jacob Bossman)

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

List of representatives

^[4]

Representative	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
Evan Jay		Whig	1846-1849	Henry County
John Tillison Morton		Whig	1850-1851	Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Henry Hendershott		Democrat	1852-1853	Ottumwa, Iowa
Daniel Anderson		Whig	1854-1855	Monroe County
Alvin Saunders		Republican	1856-1859	Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Harvey English		Democrat	1860-1863	Fremont County
Lewis Hillyer		Republican	1864-1867	Taylor County
Isaac Keller		Republican	1868-1871	Mount Ayr, Iowa
Elisha Smith		Republican	1872-1875	Taylor County
Frederick Joseph Teale		Republican	1876-1877	Decatur City, Iowa
Philip Lewellen		Republican	1878-1881	Clarinda, Iowa
Talton Clark		Republican	1882-1889	Clarinda, Iowa
George Perkins		Republican	1890-1893	Fremont County
William Eaton		Republican	1894-1901	Sidney, Iowa
Lester Lewis		Republican	1902-1906	Clarinda, Iowa
William Jamieson		Democrat	1907-1909	Page County	Jamieson was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1908.
John Dunnegan		Democrat	1911-1914	Shenandoah, Iowa
Herbert Foskett		Republican	1915-1922	Shenandoah, Iowa
Sylvester Rees		Republican	1923-1926	Fremont County
Denver Wilson		Republican	1927-1930	Shenandoah, Iowa
Frank Coykendall		Republican	1931-1932	Shenandoah, Iowa
Frank Coykendall		Democrat	1933-1934	Shenandoah, Iowa
Paul Millhone		Republican	1935-1938	Clarinda, Iowa
Carl Sjulin		Republican	1939-1946	Hamburg, Iowa
Earl Fishbaugh		Republican	1947-1954	Shenandoah, Iowa
Frank Hoxie		Republican	1955-1962	Shenandoah, Iowa
Robert Dodds		Democrat	1963-1970	Des Moines County
Floyd Gilley		Republican	1971-1972	Maynard, Iowa
Ralph McCartney		Republican	1973-1974	Charles City, Iowa
Milo Merrit		Democrat	1975-1978	Osage, Iowa
Arthur Gratias		Republican	1979-1982	Floyd County
C. Joseph Coleman		Democrat	1983-1990	Clare, Iowa
James Kersten		Republican	1991-1994	Webster County
Rod Halvorson		Democrat	1995-1998	Webster County
Mike Sexton		Republican	1999-2002	Calhoun County
Amanda Ragan		Democrat	2003-2012	Mason City, Iowa
Rick Bertrand		Republican	2013-2018	Sioux City, Iowa
Jackie Smith		Democrat	2019-2022	Sioux City, Iowa
Kevin Alons		Republican	2023-Present	Woodbury County

Historical district boundaries

Map	Description	Years effective	Notes
	Henry County	1846-1851	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.[5]
	Clarke County Lucas County Monroe County Wapello County (partial)	1852-1855
	Henry County	1856-1859
	Fremont County Mills County Montgomery County Page County	1860-1861
	Fremont County Mills County Pottawattamie County	1862-1863
	Adams County Montgomery County Page County Ringgold County Taylor County Union County	1864-1865
	Adams County Montgomery County Page County Taylor County Union County	1866-1867
	Decatur County Ringgold County	1868-1869
	Decatur County Ringgold County Taylor County	1870-1877
	Fremont County Page County	1878-1962
	Fremont County Mills County Page County	1963-1970
	Allamakee County (partial) Fayette County Winneshiek County (partial)	1970-1971	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.[6]
	Cerro Gordo County (partial) Chickasaw County (partial) Floyd County (partial) Howard County (partial) Mitchell County	1973-1982
	Boone County Carroll County (partial) Greene County Hamilton County (partial) Story County (partial) Webster County (partial)	1983-1992
	Boone County (partial) Calhoun County Hamilton County (partial) Webster County	1993-2002
	Cerro Gordo County (partial) Mason Township Owen Township Portland Township Mason City Floyd County Mitchell County	2003-2012
	Woodbury County (partial) Concord Township Sioux City Approximately North of US Highway 20	2013-2022
	Cherokee County (partial) Amherst Township Grand Meadow Township Marcus Township Rock Township Sheridan Township Tilden Township Willow Township Cleghorn Marcus Meriden Quimby Washta Monona County Plymouth County (partial) Elkhorn Township Garfield Township Hancock Township Henry Township Hungerford Township Liberty Township Lincoln Township Marion Township Perry Township Plymouth Township Remsen Township Stanton Township Union Township Hinton Kingsley Merrill Oyens Remsen Woodbury County (partial) Excluding Banner Township Concord Township Sioux City approximately north of US Highway 20

See also

• Iowa General Assembly
• Iowa Senate