Source notes · U.S. House by county, 2022 vs 2026
File: IA.csv (99 counties). Columns: d = Democratic (party DEM), r = Republican (party REP), o = all other U.S. House votes (Libertarian, Liberty Caucus, no-party candidates, write-ins). Votes are the county totals (Election Day + Absentee) for the "United States Representative District n" contests. Iowa's congressional districts follow whole-county lines in both years, so every county falls in exactly one district (no split counties in 2022 or 2026).
U.S. House), summed to county.
The official Iowa SOS canvass summary (https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2022/general/canvsummary.pdf) blocks automated download (HTTP 403), so it could not be parsed here. The OpenElections file was validated instead: per-candidate statewide sums match the FEC certified totals exactly (see below), and the Washington County result (Miller-Meeks 5,376, Bohannan 3,290) matches that county's official canvass.detail.txt)current_ver.txt still returned version 385624 when checked on 2026-11-09, so this was the latest available version. (The site blocks curl, so the files were read in a browser tab.)national_county2020.txt.| Year | Column | Our sum | Reference | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | D | 526,460 | 526,460 (FEC) | 0 |
| 2022 | R | 677,857 | 677,857 | 0 |
| 2022 | Other | 7,383 | 7,383 | 0 |
| 2026 | D | 667,037 | 667,037 (Nov 9 6:10 pm ET aggregate) | 0 |
| 2026 | R | 650,479 | 650,479 | 0 |
| 2026 | Other | 31,375 | (not reported) | — |
Both years match exactly. For 2026, each district's county sums also equal the "Totals" row in the Clarity detail file.
o includes write-ins. In 2026 Pottawattamie County reported its IA-4 write-in total as 0 with no Election Day or Absentee split, so o26 = 0 there. Pocahontas also reported 0 write-ins.These notes record where each number came from and how it was checked. 2026 figures are unofficial. See the methodology and disclaimer.