Iowa's 3rd Senate district

Iowa's 3rd
State Senate district
Map of the district
Senator
  Lynn Evans
R

The 3rd district of the Iowa Senate, located in Northwestern Iowa, is currently composed of Buena Vista County, Osceola County, O'Brien County and parts of Cherokee County and Clay County.[1] Its current member of the Iowa Senate is Republican Lynn Evans.

Current elected officials

Republican Lynn Evans has been the senator representing the 3rd District since 2023.

The area of the 3rd District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:[2]

The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.[3]

List of Representatives

Source:[4]

Representative Party Dates Residence Notes
John Jackson Selman Democratic 1846-1851 Bloomfield
George Schramm Whig 1852-1855 Farmington
John Brice Spees Whig 1852-1853 Birmingham
Abner Harrison McCrary Whig 1854-1857
Gideon Smith Bailey Democratic 1858-1859 Vernon
Cyrus Bussey Democratic 1860-1862 Bloomfield Called to the Army in February, 1862[5]
James Pollard Democratic 1862-1863 Bloomfield
Samuel Alphonso Moore Republican 1864-1867
Henry Clay Traverse Republican 1868-1871 Bloomfield
Horatio Wonn Democratic 1872-1877
Joshua Miller Republican 1878-1879 Centerville
Jesse J. Wall Greenback 1880-1883 Centerville
Edward Gault Democratic 1884-1887 Cincinnati
William Henry Taylor Democratic 1888-1891 Bloomfield
Ephraim Reynolds Republican 1892-1895 Centerville
Beryl F. Carroll Republican 1896-1899 Bloomfield
Claude R. Porter Democratic 1900-1903 Centerville
Lewis Leroy Taylor Democratic 1904-1912 Centerville
James M. Wilson Republican 1913-1920 Centerville
John Jesse Ethell Republican 1921-1924 Bloomfield
Lloyd Ellis Democratic 1925-1928 Chariton
Herbert B. Carroll Republican 1929-1932
John K. Valentine Democrat 1933-1936 Centerville Elected Lieutenant Governor in 1936.
Hugh Guernsey Democrat 1936-1940 Centerville
Dewey Goode Republican 1941-1944 Bloomfield
James R. Barkley Republican 1945-1948 Moulton Died in office, July 8, 1948.
David Sherman West Democrat 1949-1952 Moulton
Ted D. Clark Republican 1953-1956 Mystic
Gene Lyle Hoffman Democrat 1957-1960 West Grove
Joe N. Wilson Republican 1961-1964 Unionville
Donald S. McGill Democrat 1965-1970 Melrose
Wayne D. Keith Republican 1971-1973 Oak Lake
Warren E. Curtis Republican 1972-1978 Cherokee County
Arne Waldstein Republican 1979-1982 Buena Vista County
Douglas Ritsema Republican 1983-1986 Sioux County
Wilmer Rensink Republican 1987-1998 Sioux Center
Ken Veenstra Republican 1999-2002 Sioux County
David Johnson Republican 2003-2012 Ocheyedan
Bill Anderson Republican 2013-2017 Pierson Resigned from office in 2017.
Jim Carlin Republican 2017-2022 Sioux City
Lynn Evans Republican 2023–Present Cherokee County

Historical District Boundaries

Source:[6]

Map Description Years Effective Notes
Appanoose County
Davis County 		1846-1849 From 1846 to 1857, District numbering was not utilized by the Iowa State Legislature. This convention was added with the passing of the 1857 Iowa Constitution. Numbering of districts pre-1857 is done as a matter of historic convenience.[7]
Appanoose County
Davis County
Wayne County 		1850-1851
Van Buren County 1852-1855
Van Buren County 1856-1859 District 3 included a portion of district 2 during this period.[8]
Davis County 1860-1877
Appanoose County 1878-1883
Appanoose County
Monroe County 		1884-1887
Appanoose County
Davis County 		1888-1962
Lucas County
Monroe County

Wayne County

1963-1966
Appanoose County
Lucas County
Monroe County 		1967-1970
Emmet County

Humboldt County
Kossuth County

1971-1972 In 1970, the Iowa Legislature passed an amendment to the Iowa Constitution setting forth the rules for legislative redistricting in order to abide by the rules established by the Reynolds v. Sims Supreme Court Case. The first reapportionment map created by the Republican controlled legislature was deemed Unconstitutional, but was still used for the 1970 Election.[9]
Buena Vista County (partial)
Cherokee County (partial)
Clay County (partial)
Palo Alto County (partial)
Plymouth County (partial)
Pocahontas County (partial)
O'Brien County (partial) 		1973-1982
Plymouth County
Sioux County (partial)
Woodbury County (partial) 		1983-1992
Lyon County
O'Brien County (partial)
Osceola County
Sioux County 		1993-2002
Clay County
Dickinson County
O'Brien County
Osceola County
Sioux County (partial) 		2003-2012
Plymouth County (partial)

Woodbury County (partial)

2013-2022
Buena Vista County

Cherokee County (partial)

Clay County (partial)

O'Brien County
Osceola County

2023–Present

See also

References

  1. ^ "Iowa Senate District 3 Map" (PDF).
  2. ^ https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/HouseStatewide8x11_color.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/CongressStatewide8x11_color.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ "Iowa Senate District 3 Historic Senators".
  5. ^ "Biography Cyrus Bussey".
  6. ^ "Iowa State Senate District 3 Historic Legislators".
  7. ^ "1846 Iowa Constitution" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Iowa Senate District 3 Map 1856-1859" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Reapportionment in Iowa".


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