Iowa													Total Vote	Turnout '88-'84
	Registered	Voting
1998	1,769,827	973,032	54.9789%
2002	1,814,563	1,040,021	57.3152%
	(44,736)	(66,989)	-2.3363%
Iowa Senate 98	Grassley (R)	Osterberg (D)	Marcus (NL)	Trowe (Soc.)	Scattering							Voting 1988	Senate 1998
	648,480	289,049	7,561	2,542	275	0	0	0	0	0			947,907
	68.4118%	30.4934%	0.7977%	0.2682%	0.0290%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	1.55012E-45		Ind. total	10,378
Iowa Senate 02	Ganske - Rep	Harkin (D)	Harthan (G)	Moore (Lib)	Write-in votes								Senate 02	(75,168)
	447,892	554,278	11,340	8,864	701	0	0	0	0	0		1,040,021	1,023,075	(16,946)
	43.7790%	54.1777%	1.1084%	0.8664%	0.0685%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	1.43623E-45		Ind. total	20,905
Difference	200,588	(265,229)	(3,779)		(426)
Iowa Gov. 1998	Lightfoot (R)	Vilsack (D)	Hennager (Ref)	Kennis (NBP)	Schaefer (NL)	Scattering						Voting 1988	Governor 1998
	444,787	500,231	5,606	2,006	3,144	644	0	0	0	0			956,418
	46.5055%	52.3025%	0.5861%	0.2097%	0.3287%	0.0673%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	1.53632E-45		Ind. total	11,400
Iowa Gov. 2002	Doug Gross - R	Vilsack (D)	Robinson (Gr)			Cleveland (L)	Scattering						Governor 2002	(69,384)
	456,612	540,449	14,628	0	0	13,098	1,015	0		0		1,040,021	1,025,802	(14,219)
	44.5127%	52.6855%	1.4260%	0.0000%	0.0000%	1.2769%	0.0989%	0.0000%		1.43241E-45		Ind. total	28,741
Difference	(11,825)	(40,218)	(9,022)	2,006	3,144	(12,454)	(1,015)
Iowa SoS 1998	Gilliand (R)	Culver (D)	Swanson (NL)	Blue (Ref)	Scattering							Voting 1988	SoS 1998
	429,899	457,161	9,580	19,094	277	0	0	0	0	0			916,011
	46.9316%	49.9078%	1.0458%	2.0845%	0.0302%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	1.60409E-45		Ind. total	28,951
Iowa SoS 02	Hartwig - Rep	Culver (D)	Arenz (G)	Sylvia Olson -L	Write-in votes								SoS 2002	-69030
	420,290	526,600	16,366	21,434	351	0	0	0		0		1,040,021	985,041	(54,980)
	42.6673%	53.4597%	1.6615%	2.1760%	0.0356%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%		1.49168E-45		Ind. total	38,151
Difference	9,609	(69,439)	(6,786)	(2,340)	(74)
Iowa Auditor 98	Johnson (R)	No Democrat	Young (Ref)	Grafe (NL)	Scattering							Voting 1988	Auditor 1998
	588,079	0	56,635	40,537	1,052	0	0	0	0	0			686,303
	85.6880%	0.0000%	8.2522%	5.9066%	0.1533%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	2.14099E-45		Ind. total	98,224
Iowa Auditor 02	David Vaudt - R	Deluhery - Dem	Welty - Lib	Write-in votes									Auditor 2002	(269,852)
	464,469	442,040	49,206	440	0	0	0	0		0		1,040,021	956,155	(83,866)
	48.5767%	46.2310%	5.1462%	0.0460%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%		1.53675E-45		Ind. total	49,646
Difference	123,610	(442,040)	7,429	40,097	1052.00
Iowa Treas. 98	Bolin (R)	Fitzgerald (D)	Spivak (NL)	Scattering								Voting 1988	Treasurer 1998
	390,054	500,853	13,135	217	0	0	0	0	0	0			904,259
	43.1352%	55.3882%	1.4526%	0.0240%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	1.62494E-45		Ind. total	13,352
Iowa Treas. 02	Whitaker - Rep	Fitzgerald (D)	Tim Hurd - Lib	Write-in votes									Treasurer 2002	-72060
	421,574	534,714	19,687	344	0	0	0	0		0		1,040,021	976,319	(63,702)
	43.1799%	54.7684%	2.0165%	0.0352%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%		1.50501E-45		Ind. total	20,031
Difference	(31,520)	(33,861)	(6,552)	(127)	0
Iowa Ag Sec 98	Brown (R)	Judge (D)	Tigner (I)	James (NL)	Peak (Ref)							Voting 1988	Ag Sec. 1998
	424,940	451,715	10,098	7,734	7,767	0	0	0	0	0			902,254
	47.0976%	50.0652%	1.1192%	0.8572%	0.8608%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	1.62855E-45		Ind. total	25,599
Iowa Ag. Sec.02	John Askew - R	Patty Judge (D)	Groszkruger - L	Depew - Green	Tigner - NBPet	Write-in votes							Ag Sec. 1994	-79193
	446,136	490,561	11,211	21,416	11,776	347	0	0		0		1,040,021	981,447	(58,574)
	45.4570%	49.9834%	1.1423%	2.1821%	1.1999%	0.0354%	0.0000%	0.0000%		0		Ind. total	44,750
Difference	(21,196)	(38,846)	(1,113)	(13,682)	(4,009)
Iowa AG 1998	Schwickerath (R)	Miller (D)	Watkins (NL)	Scattering								Voting 1988	AG 1998
	298,528	603,523	20,104	210	0	0	0	0	0	0			922,365
	32.3655%	65.4321%	2.1796%	0.0228%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	1.59304E-45		Ind. total	20,314
Iowa AG 2002	Dave Millage -R	Tom Miller (D)	Noyes (Lib)	Write-in votes									AG 2002	-71298
	364,480	612,167	16,607	409	0	0	0	0		0		1,040,021	993,663	(46,358)
	36.6804%	61.6071%	1.6713%	0.0412%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%		1.47874E-45		Ind. total	17,016
Difference	(65,952)	(8,644)	3,497	(199)	0
Iowa House 1-98	Leach (R)	Bob Rush (D)	Thurston (Ref)	Smith (NL)	Scattering						Race Total
	106,419	79,529	1,252	932	76						188,208
	56.5433%	42.2559%	0.6652%	0.4952%	0.0404%
Iowa House 1-02	Nussle (R)	Hutchinson (D)			Write-in votes							(8,247)
	112,280	83,779	0	0	396					196,455
	57.1530%	42.6454%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.1911%
	(5,861)	(4,250)	1,252	932	(320)
Iowa House 2-98	Nussle (R)	Tully (D)	Lamoureux (NL)	Scattering							Race Total
	104,613	83,405	1,520	36							189,574
	55.1832%	43.9960%	0.8018%	0.0190%
Iowa House 2-02	Jim Leach - R	Thomas (D)	Kevin Litten (L	Write-in votes								(17,597)
	108,130	94,767	4,178	96	0					207,171
	52.1936%	45.7434%	1.9344%	0.0463%	0.0000%
	(3,517)	(11,362)	(2,658)	(60)	(0)
Iowa House 3-98	McKibben (R)	Boswell (D)	Connolly (Ref)	Seehusen (I)	Scattering						Race Total
R to D	78,063	107,947	2,180	1,494	68						189,752
	41.1395%	56.8885%	1.1489%	0.7873%	0.0358%
Iowa House 3-02	Thompson - Rep	Boswell (D)	Smith (Lib)	Edwin Fruit (SW	Write-in votes							(26,233)
	97,285	115,367	2,689	569	75					215,985
	45.0425%	53.4144%	1.2758%	0.2634%	0.0356%
	(19,222)	(7,420)	(509)	925	(7)
Iowa House 4-98	Ganske (R)	Dvorak (D)	Yellin (NL)	Scattering							Race Total
	129,942	67,550	1,785	119							199,396
	65.1678%	33.8773%	0.8952%	0.0597%
Iowa House 4-02	Tom Latham - R	John Norris (D)	Terry Wilson -L	Hennager - OneE	Write-in votes							(11,378)
	115,430	90,784	2,952	1,544	64	0				210,774
	54.7648%	43.0717%	1.6199%	0.7325%	0.0351%	0.0000%
	14,512	(23,234)	(1,167)	(1,425)	(64)	0
Iowa House 5-98	Latham (R)	No Democrat	Scattering								Race Total
	132,730	0	1,041	0							133,771
	99.2218%	0.0000%	0.7782%	0.0000%
Iowa House 5-02	Steve King - R	Shomshor (Dem)	Write-in votes									(48,466)
	113,257	68,853	127	0	0	0				182,237
	62.1482%	37.7821%	0.0697%	0.0000%	0.0000%	0.0000%
	19,473	(68,853)	914	0	(0)	(0)
Total Iowa													House 98
1998	551,767	338,431	7,778	2,581	144	0	0	0		House 02			900,701	(111,921)
2002	546,382	453,550	9,946	2,209	535	0	0	0	1,040,021	1,012,622
	5,385	(115,119)	(2,168)	372	(391)	(0)	0	0
Iowa House	Republicans	Democrats	Unopposed Reps.	Unopposed Dems.	Total Unopposed
1998	4	1	1	1.46937E-39	1	20.0000%
2002	4	1	0	0	0	0.0000%
	0	0	1	1.46937E-39	1	20.0000%
Questions								Yes		No
No Issues in 02								0	#DIV/0!	0			0	0.5
Iowa	Number 1 issue in 1998, Amends rights article to include women.							654,419	83.5776%	128,589			783,008	only 1
Legislature	Republicans	Democrats	Unopposed Reps.	Unopposed Dems.	Total Unopposed
Iowa Senate 98	14	11	7	2	9	36.0000%
Iowa Senate 02	19	15	5	5	10	29.4118%
	-5	-4	2	-3	-1	6.5882%
Iowa Reps. 98	56	44	15	19	34	34.0000%
Iowa Reps. 02	54	46	20	18	38	38.0000%
	2	-2	-5	1	-4	-4.0000%
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