All the expected Congressional candidates in Iowa have filed nominating papers with the Secretary of State’s Office: Bruce Braley, Ben Lange, and Rod Blum in the first district; Dave Loebsack, Dan Dolan, and John Archer in the second district; Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham in the third district; and Steve King and Christie Vilsack in the fourth district.
No one I talked to last weekend saw petitions for State Senator Joe Seng at various county conventions in IA-02. Therefore, I assume Seng will not file to challenge Loebsack in the primary. Either Iowa’s worst Democratic lawmaker was just looking for a little free publicity earlier this month, or he didn’t realize how many signatures he would need to qualify for the ballot as a Congressional candidate. FRIDAY UPDATE: I was dead wrong–don’t know how Seng got the signatures, but he’s on the candidate list from the Secretary of State’s Office.
To mark the field being set in all four districts, I’m posting updated active voter registration numbers for Democrats, Republicans, and no-party voters in all 99 Iowa counties, grouped by Congressional district. The numbers in the tables after the jump come from this page at the Iowa Secretary of State’s website (pdf).
Any comments about the Congressional races are welcome in this thread. I love this story about Dolan accidentally addressing the wrong convention in Monroe County last Saturday. The Democratic delegates politely listened to his stump speech, after which someone raised his hand to suggest Dolan might want the Republican convention instead. Now that’s what I call Iowa nice!
UPDATE: Here’s a change of pace: King has never debated a Congressional challenger before, but he is proposing to debate Vilsack six times. No word yet on the details of the offer.
Active voter registration numbers as of March 2012
IA-01
| County | Democrats | Republicans | no-party voters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allamakee | 2,442 | 3,593 | 3,468 |
| Benton | 4,633 | 5,033 | 7,254 |
| Black Hawk | 28,731 | 20,888 | 30,411 |
| Bremer | 3,959 | 5,160 | 7,598 |
| Buchanan | 4,033 | 3,181 | 6,282 |
| Clayton | 3,629 | 3,449 | 4,941 |
| Delaware | 2,702 | 3,945 | 4,873 |
| Dubuque | 24,969 | 14,381 | 21,848 |
| Fayette | 3,548 | 3,955 | 4,070 |
| Howard | 1,939 | 1,489 | 2,467 |
| Iowa | 2,799 | 3,708 | 4,721 |
| Jackson | 6,054 | 2,679 | 5,366 |
| Jones | 3,618 | 3,734 | 5,674 |
| Linn | 50,053 | 39,886 | 50,982 |
| Marshall | 7,569 | 8,174 | 9,270 |
| Mitchell | 1,836 | 2,513 | 2,655 |
| Poweshiek | 3,413 | 3,664 | 4,505 |
| Tama | 3,418 | 3,619 | 4,565 |
| Winnishiek | 4,010 | 4,545 | 5,153 |
| Worth | 1,670 | 1,610 | 2,122 |
| total | 165,025 | 139,206 | 188,225 |
IA-02
| County | Democrats | Republicans | no-party voters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appanoose | 2,751 | 2,955 | 3,011 |
| Cedar | 3,180 | 3,752 | 4,614 |
| Clarke | 1,672 | 1,835 | 2,430 |
| Clinton | 11,024 | 7,673 | 13,309 |
| Davis | 1,915 | 1,509 | 1,357 |
| Decatur | 1,733 | 1,777 | 1,755 |
| Des Moines | 11,653 | 6,232 | 8,174 |
| Henry | 3,085 | 4,779 | 5,164 |
| Jasper | 9,418 | 7,597 | 7,791 |
| Jefferson | 3,366 | 3,850 | 3,799 |
| Johnson | 39,393 | 19,447 | 31,817 |
| Keokuk | 2,292 | 2,292 | 2,297 |
| Lee | 9,653 | 4,371 | 8,100 |
| Louisa | 1,866 | 2,569 | 2,567 |
| Lucas | 1,535 | 2,120 | 2,167 |
| Mahaska | 3,242 | 6,111 | 5,155 |
| Marion | 6,105 | 8,926 | 7,654 |
| Monroe | 1,792 | 1,519 | 1,420 |
| Muscatine | 7,827 | 8,368 | 10,414 |
| Scott | 35,918 | 31,346 | 47,028 |
| Van Buren | 1,096 | 2,179 | 1,636 |
| Wapello | 9,591 | 5,267 | 6,621 |
| Washington | 3,170 | 5,468 | 5,134 |
| Wayne | 1,096 | 1,363 | 1,205 |
| total | 174,373 | 143,305 | 184,619 |
IA-03
| County | Democrats | Republicans | no-party voters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adair | 1,180 | 2,084 | 1,985 |
| Adams | 757 | 1,003 | 1,219 |
| Cass | 1,712 | 5,113 | 3,123 |
| Dallas | 10,323 | 15,503 | 17,187 |
| Fremont | 1,366 | 2,233 | 1,931 |
| Guthrie | 2,009 | 2,828 | 2,723 |
| Madison | 3,075 | 3,914 | 3,701 |
| Mills | 1,922 | 4,485 | 3,129 |
| Montgomery | 1,210 | 3,907 | 2,270 |
| Page | 1,642 | 4,411 | 3,529 |
| Polk | 103,560 | 83,627 | 75,788 |
| Pottawattamie | 16,823 | 20,054 | 18,798 |
| Ringgold | 1,009 | 1,282 | 769 |
| Taylor | 908 | 1,634 | 1,441 |
| Union | 1,826 | 2,855 | 2,909 |
| Warren | 9,755 | 10,310 | 10,274 |
| total | 159,077 | 165,243 | 150,776 |
IA-04
| County | Democrats | Republicans | no-party voters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audubon | 1,376 | 1,475 | 1,482 |
| Boone | 5,709 | 5,331 | 6,997 |
| Buena Vista | 2,798 | 3,915 | 4,428 |
| Butler | 1,867 | 4,587 | 3,353 |
| Calhoun | 1,570 | 2,407 | 2,989 |
| Carroll | 4,307 | 3,949 | 6,233 |
| Cerro Gordo | 9,346 | 8,135 | 12,423 |
| Cherokee | 2,083 | 3,189 | 3,251 |
| Chickasaw | 2,975 | 2,236 | 3,601 |
| Clay | 2,641 | 4,485 | 4,309 |
| Crawford | 2,784 | 3,132 | 3,637 |
| Dickinson | 2,824 | 4,707 | 4,943 |
| Emmet | 2,256 | 1,697 | 3,053 |
| Floyd | 3,187 | 2,735 | 4,569 |
| Franklin | 1,362 | 3,028 | 2,473 |
| Greene | 1,756 | 2,266 | 2,440 |
| Grundy | 1,508 | 3,934 | 3,062 |
| Hamilton | 2,896 | 3,784 | 3,908 |
| Hancock | 1,617 | 3,302 | 2,874 |
| Hardin | 2,766 | 4,231 | 4,087 |
| Harrison | 2,498 | 3,567 | 2,453 |
| Humboldt | 1,466 | 2,538 | 2,649 |
| Ida | 973 | 2,184 | 1,884 |
| Kossuth | 3,674 | 3,340 | 4,247 |
| Lyon | 1,092 | 5,188 | 2,018 |
| Monona | 2,140 | 1,893 | 2,387 |
| O’Brien | 1,486 | 5,413 | 3,160 |
| Osceola | 585 | 2,560 | 1,270 |
| Palo Alto | 2,287 | 1,688 | 2,407 |
| Plymouth | 3,419 | 7,605 | 5,842 |
| Pocahontas | 1,227 | 1,772 | 2,388 |
| Sac | 1,508 | 3,307 | 2,913 |
| Shelby | 2,273 | 3,228 | 3,194 |
| Sioux | 1,642 | 14,562 | 3,622 |
| Story | 16,898 | 16,305 | 20,573 |
| Webster | 8,967 | 6,896 | 8,483 |
| Winnebago | 1,718 | 2,771 | 2,797 |
| Woodbury | 18,275 | 18,290 | 19,120 |
| Wright | 2,035 | 3,515 | 2,802 |
| total | 131,791 | 179,147 | 178,321 |