Iowa's 3rd congressional district

Iowa's 3rd congressional district
Iowa's 3rd congressional district
	Iowa's 3rd congressional district since January 3, 2013
Representative
	Cindy Axne; D–West Des Moines
Distribution	73.07% urban; 26.93% rural;
Population (2019)	848,170
Median income	$67,681
Ethnicity	83% White; 4% Black; 3% Asian; 7% Hispanic; 0% Native American; 2% other;
Cook PVI	R+1

Iowa's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S state of Iowa. The district is in the southwest part of the state including Des Moines and the borders with Nebraska and Missouri. The district was created in 1863. The people who live in the district elect a person to represent the district in the United States House of Representatives. The district has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Cindy Axne since 2019.

Election history

Office	Year	District	Statewide	Nationwide
President	2000	Al Gore 49% – George W. Bush 48%	Gore	Bush
	2004	George W. Bush 50% – John Kerry 50%	Bush	Bush
	2008	Barack Obama 54% – John McCain 44%	Obama	Obama
	2012	Barack Obama 51% – Mitt Romney 47%	Obama	Obama
	2016	Donald Trump 48% – Hillary Clinton 45%	Trump	Trump
	2020	Donald Trump 49.1% – Joe Biden 49.0%	Trump	Biden

2002 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Leonard Boswell	115,367	53.41
	Republican	Stan Thompson	97,285	45.04
	Libertarian	Jeffrey J. Smith	2,689	1.25
	Socialist Workers	Edwin B. Fruit	569	0.26
	No party	Others	75	0.04
Total votes			215,985	100.00
Turnout
	Democrat hold

2004 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Leonard Boswell	168,007	55.21
	Republican	Stan Thompson	136,009	44.72
	No party	Others	213	0.07
Total votes			304,229	100.00
Turnout
	Democrat hold

2006 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Leonard Boswell	115,769	51.85
	Republican	Jeff Lamberti	103,722	46.45
	Socialist Workers	Helen Meyers	3,591	1.61
	No party	Others	205	0.09
Total votes			223,287	100.00
Turnout
	Democrat hold

2008 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Leonard Boswell	176,904	56.31
	Republican	Kim Schmett	132,136	42.06
	Socialist Workers	Frank Forrestal	4,599	1.46
	No party	Others	521	0.17
Total votes			314,160	100.00
Turnout
	Democrat hold

2010 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Leonard Boswell	122,147	50.73
	Republican	Brad Zaun	111,925	46.49
	Socialist Workers	Rebecca Williamson	6,258	2.60
	No party	Others	426	0.18
Total votes			240,756	100.00
Turnout
	Democrat hold

2012 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Tom Latham	202,000	50.56
	Democrat	Leonard Boswell	168,632	42.20
	[[Independent (politician)\|Template:Independent (politician)/meta/shortname]]	Scott G. Batcher	9,352	2.34
	Socialist Workers	David Rosenfeld	6,286	1.57
	No party	Others	572	0.14
Total votes			399,561	100.00
Turnout
	Republican gain from Democrat

2014 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	David Young	148,814	52.8
	Democrat	Staci Appel	119,109	42.2
	Libertarian	Edward Wright	9,054	3.2
style="background-color: Template:N/A/meta/color; width: 2px;" \|	[[N/A\|Template:N/A/meta/shortname]]	Bryan Jack Holder	4,360	1.5
	Write-ins		729	0.3
Total votes			282,066	100
	Republican hold

Map showing the results of the 2016 election in Iowa's 3rd congressional district by county

2016 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	David Young	208,598	53.45
	Democrat	Jim Mowrer	155,002	39.71
	Libertarian	Bryan Jack Holder	15,372	3.94
	Nominated by Petition	Claudia Addy	6,348	1.63
	Nominated by Petition	Joe Grandanette	4,518	1.16
		Write-ins	449	0.12
Total votes			390,287	100.00
	Republican hold

2018 Iowa's 3rd congressional district election^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democrat	Cindy Axne	169,888	49.0	+9.29
	Republican	David Young	164,667	47.49	-5.96
	Libertarian	Bryan Jack Holder	7,005	2.02	−1.92
	Legal Marijuana Now	Mark Elworth Jr.	1,906	0.55	+0.55
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	Independent	Joe Grandanette	1,271	0.37	−0.79
	Write-ins		178	0.05	+0.00
Turnout			346,710	100
	Democrat gain from Republican		Swing	+15.25

Iowa's 3rd congressional district, 2020^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democrat	Cindy Axne (incumbent)	219,205	48.9
	Republican	David Young	212,997	47.6
	Libertarian	Bryan Jack Holder	15,361	3.4
style="background-color: Template:Write-in/meta/color; width: 2px;" \|	Write-in		384	0.1
Total votes			447,947	100.0
	Democrat hold

Iowa's 3rd congressional district (since 2023)
William B. Allison - Brady-Handy
William G. Donnan (June 30, 1834 - December 4, 1908) was a pioneer lawyer, Civil War officer, and two-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant.
Lucien Lester Ainsworth, US Representative from Iowa
Theodore Weld Burdick (October 7, 1836 – July 16, 1898)
Thomas Updegraff (Iowa Congressman)
Benjamin P. Birdsall (restored)
Charles E. Pickett (Iowa Congressman)
Portrait of Maurice Connolly from the Iowa Official Register, Volume 25, 1913, page xxiii