The 1916 Iowa Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1916 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 30 of the senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa Senate.
A statewide map of the 50 state senate districts in the 1916 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly here.
The primary election on June 5, 1916, determined which candidates appeared on the November 7, 1916 general election ballot.
Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 35 seats to Democrats' 15 seats.
To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 11 Senate seats.
Republicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1916 general election, with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 40 seats and Democrats having 10 seats (a net gain of five seats for Republicans).
Summary of Results Note: 20 districts with holdover Senators not up for re-election are not listed on this table.
Senate districtIncumbent PartyElected senator Party 2nd John H. Taylor Rep George Washington Ball Rep 3rd James M. Wilson Rep James M. Wilson Rep 4th John H. Darrah Rep Karl Miler Le Compte Rep 5th Charles H. Thomas Rep James Allen Stephenson Dem 6th Albert D. Nye Rep Benjamin J. Gibson Rep 8th Frank F. Jones Rep William C. Ratcliff Rep 11th LeMerton Edson Crist Rep Aaron VanScoy Proudfoot Rep 14th John Fletcher Ream Dem Elmer Ellsworth Mitchell Rep 15th John Thomas Clarkson Dem John Rees Price Rep 16th Arthur Craig Savage Rep Edward McMurray Smith Rep 17th John Wasson Foster Rep John Wasson Foster Rep 19th Clement F. Kimball Rep Clement F. Kimball Rep 23rd George Earl Hilsinger Rep Albert L. Broxam Dem 24th William David Sheean Dem John K. Hale Rep 25th James A. White Dem Otto A. Byington Dem 26th Francis A. Heald Rep Willis G. Haskell Rep 27th Frederic Larrabee Rep Perry C. Holdoegel Rep 28th Wallace H. Arney Rep Wallace H. Arney Rep 31st Justin R. Doran Rep Ben Edwards Rep 32nd Edgar P. Farr Dem Charles Franklin Lytle Rep 33rd Eli Cushman Perkins Rep Thomas Eddy Taylor Rep 36th Robert Pollok Quigley Dem Byron W. Newberry Rep 39th Fred P. Hagemann Dem William Thomas Evans Rep 40th Albert M. Fellows Rep Albert M. Fellows Rep 41st Lars W. Boe Rep Thomas A. Kingland Rep 43rd Thomas J. B. Robinson Rep Arthur Lynnwood Rule Rep 46th Guy Mark Gillette Dem George Franklin Coburn Rep 47th Leslie E. Francis Rep Henry C. Adams Rep 49th Nicholas Balkema Rep Nicholas Balkema Rep 50th Joseph Holmes Allen Rep Howard Spicer Van Alstine Rep
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Detailed results
NOTE: The 20 districts that did not hold elections in 1916 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 49 • District 50__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 49
District 50
See also United States elections, 1916 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 1916 Elections in Iowa
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