The 1932 Iowa Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1932 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 30 of the Iowa Senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in Iowa.
A statewide map of the 50 state senate districts in the 1932 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly here.
The primary election on June 6, 1932, determined which candidates appeared on the November 8, 1932 general election ballot.
Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 44 seats to Democrats' 6 seats, so to flip control of the chamber, the Democrats needed to net 20 Senate seats in these elections.
The Democrats gained control of the Senate following the 1932 general election, with the balance of power shifting to Republicans and Democrats having 25 seats each (a net gain of 19 seats for Democrats). Lieutenant Governor of Iowa Nelson G. Kraschel was a Democrat and presided over the evenly-divided Iowa Senate following the election.
By winning her election in the 23rd senatorial district during these elections, Carolyn Campbell Pendray became the first woman elected to the Iowa Senate. Previously, she had been the first woman elected to the Iowa House of Representatives as well.
Results Note: 19 districts with "holdover" Senators not up for re-election are not listed on this table.
Senate DistrictIncumbent PartyElected Senator Party 2nd Aaron Vale Blackford Rep John N. Calhoun Rep 3rd Herbert B. Carroll Rep John K. Valentine Dem 4th John W. Kent Rep John Henry Judd Dem 5th Frank D. Ickis Rep Frank M. Stevens Dem 6th Arthur Gray Leonard Rep Claude Stanley Rep 7th Frank Iradelle Coykendall Rep Frank Iradelle Coykenall Dem 8th William C. Cochrane Rep Homer Hush Rep 11th Wesley C. Lowe Rep William S. Beardsley Rep 14th Forrester Call Stanley Rep Louis Tuttle Shangle Dem 15th William Alexander Clark Rep Carl F. Aschenbrenner Dem 16th John N. Langfitt Rep Ora E. Husted Rep 17th Frank Bissell Rep George M. Hopkins Rep 19th William Samuel Baird Rep Morris W. Moore Dem 23rd George W. Tabor Dem Carolyn Campbell Pendray Dem 24th Charles Longley Rigby Rep Henry Delbert Miller Dem 25th George Marchant Clearman Rep Paul W. Schmidt Dem 26th Charles Francis Clark Rep Frank C. Byers Rep 27th C. E. Anderson Rep Paul H. Anderson Dem 28th William E. McLeland Rep Chris Reese Dem 31st Lant H. Doran Rep Fred William Nelson Rep 32nd Bertel M. Stoddard Rep Vincent F. Harrington Dem 33rd Chester G. Cole Rep Warren F. Miller Dem 36th Charles Augustus Benson Rep Martin X. Geske Dem 39th George W. Christophel Rep Louis H. Meyer Dem 40th John Henry Hager Rep Thomas William Mullaney Dem 41st Otto E. Gunderson Rep Leo Elthon Rep 43rd Edward W. Clark Rep William C. McArthur Dem 46th Lew MacDonald Rep Mike G. Fisch Dem 47th George William Patterson Rep George William Patterson Rep 48th Lewis Thomas Quirk Rep I. G. Chrystal Dem 49th Tollef Edward Moen Rep Garritt E. Roelofs Rep
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Detailed Results NOTE: The 20 districts that did not hold elections in 1932 are not listed here. District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 8 • District 11 • District 14 • District 15 • District 16 • District 17 • District 19 • District 23 • District 24 • District 25 • District 26 • District 27 • District 28 • District 31 • District 32 • District 33 • District 36 • District 39 • District 40 • District 41 • District 43 • District 46 • District 47 • District 48 • District 49__NOTOC__ Note: If a district does not list a primary, then that district did not have a competitive primary (i.e., there may have only been one candidate file for that district).
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 8
District 11
District 14
District 15
District 16
District 17
District 19
District 23
District 24
District 25
District 26
District 27
District 28
District 31
District 32
District 33
District 36
District 39
District 40
District 41
District 43
District 46
District 47
District 48
District 49
See also United States elections, 1932 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 1932 Elections in Iowa
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