- Lead
- 10,939
- Total
- 30,963
- vs nation
- R+33.9
Iowa 44th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,014
- Total
- 32,737
- vs nation
- R+35.0
- Lead
- 8,735
- Total
- 30,881
- vs nation
- R+30.4
- Lead
- 1,352
- Total
- 31,637
- vs nation
- R+8.1
- Lead
- 3
- Total
- 31,771
- vs nation
- R+7.3
- Lead
- 3,095
- Total
- 31,608
- vs nation
- R+7.3
- Lead
- 3,194
- Total
- 28,703
- vs nation
- R+11.6
- Lead
- 750
- Total
- 27,931
- vs nation
- R+5.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+35.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 63,6552024 5-year
- Population density
- 32 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,975 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,1312024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+24.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+38.9 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 19, IA · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Iowa 44th State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
62.2%
19,536 votes · D+24.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 59.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
68.5%
23,193 votes · R+38.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 66.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
20,534votes
59.1% of the vote · D+18.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 19,536 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
24,437votes
66.3% of the vote · R+34.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 23,193 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Michael Dukakis1988
+10.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+2.5 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +4.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+35.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+30.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +33.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+35.3 in 2024, compared with R+0.0 in 2008. About 52,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 90.5% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 38.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 35.3 points.
A population of 63,655, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,131 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 19 and State Senate District 12.
The state-senate districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Iowa 44th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/19044/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.