Sioux City: 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: Hinson v Turek v Laehn); U.S. Representative IA-4 (open: McGowan v Dawson); Governor/Lt. Governor (open: Lahn/Wulf v Sand/Muhlbauer) and the other statewide offices; Iowa Senate SD-1 (Drey v Prosch) and SD-7 (Alons, unopposed on the ballot); Iowa House HD-1 (Steinhoff v Olorundami), HD-2 (Henderson v Lopez-Walker) and HD-14 (Bossman); Woodbury County Supervisors Districts 2 and 4, Treasurer, Attorney; judges and a constitutional amendment. No City of Sioux City office..
Holding office12
the sitting council
On the ballot14
3 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Sioux City is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Iowa's 4th congressional district (City Hall; all Iowa grid points in the city) — Randy Feenstra (Republican)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Scott Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Sioux City |
2
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig Berenstein Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Sioux City |
| Ike Rayford Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Sioux City |
| Julie Schoenherr ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Sioux City |
| Rick Bertrand Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City of Sioux City |
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 | Woodbury County Auditor | |
| Zach Lahn | Governor Running | Republican | Woodbury County Auditor |
5
Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Muhlbauer | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Woodbury County Auditor | |
| Derek Wulf | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Woodbury County Auditor |
6
State Representative — HD-2
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Henderson Elected | State Representative → Running | Republican | Iowa Legislature | |
| Jessica Lopez-Walker | State Representative Running | Democratic | Woodbury County Auditor |
7
State Senator — SD-1
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catelin Drey Elected | State Senator → Running | Democratic | Iowa Legislature | |
| Christopher Prosch | State Senator Running | Republican | Woodbury County Auditor |
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 | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | Woodbury County Auditor | |
| Josh Turek | U.S. Senator Running | Democratic | Woodbury County Auditor | |
| Thomas Laehn | U.S. Senator Running | Libertarian | Woodbury County Auditor |
9
U.S. Representative — IA-4
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randy Feenstra Elected | U.S. Representative | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) | |
| Chris McGowan | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Woodbury County Auditor | |
| Dave Dawson | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Woodbury County Auditor |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Candidates: Woodbury County Auditor official sample ballots for the November 3, 2026 General Election, linked from elections.woodburycountyiowa.gov/elections/info/2026_general_election_2026_11_03/ (no robots.txt — 404; no terms stated), retrieved 2026-11-01. All 31 sample-ballot PDFs for Sioux City precincts 1-29 were read (precinct 17 Lawton and 30+ are outside the city and were skipped); raw PDFs deleted after text extraction. Precincts 1-22 carry SD-1, 23-29 SD-7; House: HD-1 (precincts 1-11), HD-2 (12-16, 18-22), HD-14 (23-29). Every city ballot carries IA-4. The precinct 12 ballot (HD-2/SD-1, City Hall's districts) is the record source. Write-ins skipped. sos.iowa.gov was not used (robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai, per earlier agents).
- Not captured: other statewide offices (Secretary of State Pate v Peterman; Treasurer Smith v Norwood; Agriculture Naig v Jones; Attorney General Bird v Willems; Auditor Cournoyer v Wettach — only Cournoyer recorded, as the sitting Lt. Governor); SD-7 (Kevin Alons, R, sitting, sole name on the ballot), HD-1 (J.D. Scholten D is the sitting member; the ballot lists Josh Steinhoff R v Shawn Olorundami D) and HD-14 (Jacob Bossman R, sitting, sole name) — outside City Hall; county offices, judges and measures.
- Statewide rows (Grassley, Ernst, Senate and Governor candidates, Reynolds, Cournoyer) are carried from us-davenport (2026-10-31) and the names were checked against the Woodbury ballot — identical.
- Districts: Census Geocoder at City Hall (405 6th St) gave Sioux City city, CD-4, SD-1, HD-2. A 0.025-degree grid matched 31 points to 'Sioux City city' — 5 of them were South Sioux City, NE / North Sioux City, SD (CD-3, at-large, NE LD-17); of the 26 Iowa points all were CD-4; SD-1 (18) and SD-7 (8); HD-2 (12), HD-14 (8), HD-1 (6). Only City Hall's legislators are recorded.
- State: legis.iowa.gov Senate and House member lists (robots allows; 91st GA), retrieved 2026-11-01: SD-1 Catelin Drey (Democrat), HD-2 Bob Henderson (Republican). Governor and Lt. Governor rows from governor.iowa.gov via us-davenport. Federal from CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (retrieved 2026-11-01).
- Municipal: City of Sioux City 'City Council' page (www.sioux-city.org/247; robots.txt group naming ClaudeBot disallows only admin/search/calendar/CivicAlerts/RSS/FAQ-type paths), retrieved 2026-11-01: Mayor Bob Scott; Mayor Pro Tem Julie Schoenherr; Councilmembers Craig Berenstein, Rick Bertrand, Ike Rayford — five members elected city-wide (the page does not label seats; 'At-Large' is used here). Terms from the Woodbury County Auditor 'Elected Officials: City' page: Scott and Schoenherr end 2027, Berenstein, Bertrand and Rayford end 2029 (4-year terms). That county page prints gmail/business addresses for Scott, Berenstein, Bertrand and Rayford — not copied; only Schoenherr's @sioux-city.org address is recorded. The county page's office phones not copied.
- City election: none in 2026 (Iowa regular city elections are in odd-numbered years). Next: November 2027 — Mayor and the seat held by Schoenherr (terms ending 2027). Non-partisan.
- standsFor null for everyone. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. No web searches used for Sioux City.
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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.
- Woodbury County Auditor — Official Ballot (sample), 2026 General Election, November 3, 2026, Precinct 12 Perry Creek Elementary School (Sioux City) 11
- City of Sioux City — City Council 5
- @unitedstates congress-legislators — legislators-current.json 2
- Office of the Governor of Iowa 2
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json) 1
- Iowa Legislature — House members (91st General Assembly) 1
- Iowa Legislature — Senate members (91st General Assembly) 1