Cedar Rapids: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Ernst seat, open: Turek DEM v Hinson REP v Laehn LIB); U.S. Representative IA-2 (open: Lindsay James DEM v Joe Mitchell REP v Rick Stewart LIB v Dave Bushaw IND); Governor/Lt. Governor (open: Sand/Muhlbauer DEM v Lahn/Wulf REP) and the other statewide offices; Iowa Senate SD-39 and House HD-78 (City Hall) — candidates not read; Linn County offices, judges and measures. No City of Cedar Rapids office is on the 2026 ballot..
Holding office16
the sitting council
On the ballot12
2 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Cedar Rapids is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Iowa's 2nd congressional district (City Hall and all 30 sampled city points, on both the 119th and 2026 maps) — Ashley Hinson (Republican)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiffany O'Donnell ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Cedar Rapids |
2
Councilmember
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Poe ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-Large | City of Cedar Rapids |
| Ashley Vanorny ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 5 | City of Cedar Rapids |
| Dale Todd ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 3 | City of Cedar Rapids |
| David Maier ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-Large | City of Cedar Rapids |
| Martin Hoeger ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 1 | City of Cedar Rapids |
| Scott Olson Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 4 | City of Cedar Rapids |
| Scott Overland ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | District 2 | City of Cedar Rapids |
| Tyler Olson ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-Large | City of Cedar Rapids |
3
Auditor of State
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Cournoyer Elected | Lieutenant Governor → Running for Auditor of State | Republican | Office of the Governor of Iowa |
4
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kim Reynolds Elected | Governor | Republican | Office of the Governor of Iowa | |
| Rob Sand | Governor Running | Democratic | Black Hawk County Auditor | |
| Zach Lahn | Governor Running | Republican | Black Hawk County Auditor |
5
Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Muhlbauer | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Black Hawk County Auditor | |
| Derek Wulf | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Black Hawk County Auditor |
6
State Representative — HD-78
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angel Ramirez ✉️ Elected | State Representative | Democratic | Iowa Legislature |
7
State Senator — SD-39
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liz Bennett ✉️ Elected | State Senator | Democratic | Iowa Legislature |
8
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Grassley Elected | U.S. Senator | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators | |
| Joni Ernst Elected | U.S. Senator | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators | |
| Ashley Hinson ✉️ Elected | U.S. Representative → Running for U.S. Senator | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Josh Turek ✉️ | U.S. Senator Running | Democratic | Black Hawk County Auditor | |
| Thomas Laehn ✉️ | U.S. Senator Running | Libertarian | Black Hawk County Auditor |
9
U.S. Representative — IA-2
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Bushaw ✉️ | Candidate Running | Independent | Black Hawk County Auditor | |
| Joe Mitchell ✉️ | Candidate Running | Republican | Black Hawk County Auditor | |
| Lindsay James ✉️ | Candidate Running | Democratic | Black Hawk County Auditor | |
| Rick Stewart ✉️ | Candidate Running | Libertarian | Black Hawk County Auditor |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Candidates: the Linn County Auditor (www.linncountyiowa.gov, www.linncounty.org, and linncountyelections.org which redirects there) answers even robots.txt with a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' block — not bypassed. The Iowa Secretary of State's robots.txt has 'User-agent: ClaudeBot / Disallow: /' (and anthropic-ai) — its 2026 General candidate list was not opened. Federal and statewide candidates therefore come from the Black Hawk County Auditor's official 'Candidates List - November 3rd, 2026' (as of 09/01/2026; Black Hawk is in IA-2; blackhawkcountyelections.iowa.gov has no robots.txt — 404). The list prints candidates' addresses and phones — not copied; emails kept only where they are campaign addresses (Laehn's laehn4iowa@gmail.com as printed). Statewide rows mirror us-davenport (Scott County ballot), re-pointed to the Black Hawk list, which agrees.
- NOT CAPTURED — SD-39 and HD-78 candidates (both Linn County only; no reachable official list). Other statewide offices (SoS Peterman v Pate, Auditor Wettach v Cournoyer, Treasurer Norwood v Smith, Agriculture Jones v Naig, AG Willems v Bird) are on the Black Hawk list but outside the brief; Cournoyer recorded as sitting Lt. Governor.
- Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall gave CD-2 (120th), SD-39, HD-78. An 8x8 grid (30 points inside 'Cedar Rapids city'): IA-2 on all (2026 and 119th maps); Senate 39 (15), 40 (9), 42 (3), 37 (3); House 77 (10), 80 (6), 78 (5), 79 (3), 74 (3), 84 (2), 83 (1). So at least four Senate and seven House districts cover the city; only City Hall's are recorded.
- Members: Grassley, Ernst from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json; Hinson (IA-2) from house.gov/representatives; SD-39 Liz Bennett and HD-78 Angel Ramirez from legis.iowa.gov Senate and House member lists (robots: '*' disallows only /chambers/), with official @legis.iowa.gov emails. Governor Reynolds and Lt. Governor Cournoyer rows carried from us-davenport (governor.iowa.gov).
- Municipal: Mayor and eight Councilmembers (three at-large, five district) from www.cedar-rapids.org 'Mayor & City Council' and the mayor/at-large/district_1-5 pages, retrieved 2026-11-01. www.cedar-rapids.org/robots.txt redirects to cms8.revize.com/revize/cedarrapids/robots.txt, whose '*' group disallows only two PDF forms (the cms8.revize.com root robots.txt, which disallows HTML, was also read; no page was fetched from that host). City Elections page: 'eight Council members plus the Mayor, all of whom serve four-year terms. The Mayor and three Council members are elected at large, while the remaining five members are elected by voters in their districts.' Printed terms: 2026–2029 (O'Donnell, Tyler Olson, Hoeger, Todd, Vanorny — elected November 2025) and 2024–2027 (Poe, Maier, Overland, Scott Olson). Next city election: November 2027 (Iowa regular city elections are in odd years) for the four 2024–2027 seats. Official city emails and headshot URLs recorded; phones not copied. The city ballot is non-partisan.
- standsFor null for everyone. No home addresses, phones or personal emails. One web search used for Cedar Rapids.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Black Hawk County Auditor — 'Black Hawk County Candidates List - November 3rd, 2026' (Cand26.GEN, as of 09/01/2026) 10
- City of Cedar Rapids — Mayor & City Council (at-large.php) 3
- @unitedstates congress-legislators — legislators-current.json 2
- Office of the Governor of Iowa 2
- Iowa Legislature — House member list (91st General Assembly) 1
- City of Cedar Rapids — Mayor & City Council (district_5.php) 1
- City of Cedar Rapids — Mayor & City Council (district_3.php) 1
- Iowa Legislature — Senate member list (91st General Assembly) 1
- City of Cedar Rapids — Mayor & City Council (district_1.php) 1
- City of Cedar Rapids — Mayor & City Council (district_4.php) 1
- City of Cedar Rapids — Mayor & City Council (district_2.php) 1
- City of Cedar Rapids — Mayor & City Council (mayor.php) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Iowa, 2nd: 'Hinson, Ashley', R) 1