The 1912 Iowa Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1912 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 29 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 1912 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly here.
The primary election on June 3, 1912, determined which candidates appeared on the November 5, 1912 general election ballot.
Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 34 seats to Democrats' 16 seats.
To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 10 Senate seats.
Republicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1912 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 32 seats and Democrats having 18 seats (a net gain of 2 seats for Democrats).
Results Note: 21 districts with holdover Senators not up for re-election are not listed on this table.
Senate districtIncumbent PartyElected Senator Party 2nd William Sylvester Allen Rep John H. Taylor Rep 3rd Lewis Leroy Taylor Dem James M. Wilson Rep 4th George McCulloch Rep John H. Darrah Rep 5th John Dana Brown Rep Charles H. Thomas Rep 6th Theophilus W. Bennett Rep Albert D. Nye Rep 8th Shirley Gillilland Rep Frank F. Jones Rep 11th Aaron VanScoy Proudfoot Rep LeMerton Edson Crist Rep 14th John Fletcher Ream Dem John Fletcher Ream Dem 15th John Thomas Clarkson Dem John Thomas Clarkson Dem 16th Arthur Craig Savage Rep Arthur Craig Savage Rep 17th Anthony Milroy McColl Rep Anthony Milroy McColl Rep19thCharles George SaundersRep Mack C. Goodwin Dem Clement F. Kimball Rep 23rd Lyman Bradley Parshall Dem George Earl Hilsinger Rep 24th Horace Ray Chapman Rep William David Sheean Dem 25th James A. White Dem James A. White Dem 26th Willard Coldren Stuckslager Rep Francis A. Heald Rep 27th Frederic Larrabee Rep Frederic Larrabee Rep 28th Comfort Harvey Van Law Rep Wallace H. Arney Rep 31st Joseph Andrew Fitchpatrick Rep Justin R. Doran Rep 32nd Robert Hunter Rep Edgar P. Farr Dem 33rd Edwin Hiram Hoyt Rep Eli Cushman Perkins Rep 36th Robert Pollok Quigley Dem Robert Pollok Quigley Dem 39th Charles Gates Rep Charles Gates Rep 40th Henry L. Adams Rep Albert M. Fellows Rep 41st James Albert Smith Rep Lars W. Boe Rep 43rd John Hammill Rep Thomas J. B. Robinson Rep 46th James Uriah Sammis Rep Guy Mark Gillette Dem 47th Leslie E. Francis Rep Leslie E. Francis Rep 49th Nicholas Balkema Rep Nicholas Balkema Rep
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Detailed results Note: The 21 districts that did not hold elections in 1912 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__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
Originally the 1912 general election in the nineteenth senatorial district was deemed a victory for Democrat Mack C. Goodwin. Goodwin would serve for a month in 1913. However, the senators would remove Goodwin and replace him with Republican Clem F. Kimball following Kimball's contestation of the results.
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
See also United States elections, 1912 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 1912 Elections in Iowa
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