# Iowa's 10th Senate district

The 10th District of the Iowa Senate is located in Western Iowa, and is currently composed of the cities of Council Bluffs and Carter Lake in Pottawattamie County.

## Current elected officials

Dan Dawson is the senator currently representing the 10th District.
The area of the 10th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives:
* The 19th District (represented by Brent Siegrist)
* The 20th District (represented by Josh Turek)
The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.

## List of representatives

Source:
| Representative | Party | Dates | Residence | Notes |
| Richard Harbour | Democrat | 1846-1849 | Mahaska County | |
| Joseph Lowe | Democrat | 1851-1851 | Keokuk County | |
| Hadley Johnson | Democrat | 1852-1853 | Council Bluffs, Iowa | |
| James Test | Democrat | 1854-1855 | Council Bluffs, Iowa | |
| John Warner | Democrat | 1856-1859 | Decatur County | |
| James F. Wilson | Republican | 1860-1861 | Fairfield, Iowa | Wilson was elected to the US House of Representatives for Iowa's 1st congressional district in 1861. |
| Joshua Shaffer | Republican | 1862-1863 | Jefferson County | |
| Theron Woolson | Republican | 1864-1867 | Henry County | |
| Charles Matthies | Republican | 1868 | Burlington, Iowa | Senator Matthies died in office in 1868. |
| Charles Beardsley | Republican | 1870-1873 | Burlington, Iowa | |
| John Williams | Republican | 1874-1877 | Des Moines County | |
| John Woolson | Republican | 1878-1881 | Mount Pleasant, Iowa | |
| Lot Abraham | Republican | 1882-1885 | Mount Pleasant, Iowa | |
| John Woolson | Republican | 1886-1891 | Mount Pleasant, Iowa | |
| David Palmer | Republican | 1892-1899 | Washington, Iowa | |
| Amos Alberson | Democrat | 1900-1901 | Washington, Iowa | |
| John Alex Young | Republican | 1902-1906 | Washington, Iowa | |
| William Seeley | Republican | 1907-1910 | Mount Pleasant, Iowa | |
| Samuel Neal | Republican | 1911-1914 | Washington, Iowa | |
| John Lindly | Democrat | 1915-1918 | Winfield, Iowa | |
| James Brookhart | Republican | 1919-1926 | Washington, Iowa | Senator Brookhart died in office in 1926. |
| William Carden | Republican | 1927-1934 | Henry County | |
| Arthur C. Dewey | Republican | 1935-1942 | Washington, Iowa | |
| Harlan Foster | Republican | 1943-1950 | Henry County | |
| Carl Anderson | Republican | 1951-1958 | Washington County | |
| Clifford Vance | Republican | 1959-1962 | Mount Pleasant, Iowa | |
| Richard Stephens | Republican | 1963-1966 | Ainsworth, Iowa | |
| Bass Van Gilst | Democrat | 1967-1970 | Mahaska | |
| Ralph Potter | Republican | 1971-1972 | Linn County | |
| Mike Blouin | Democrat | 1973-1974 | Dubuque County | |
| Robert Carr | Democrat | 1974-1982 | Dubuque County | |
| Alvin Miller | Democrat | 1983-1992 | Cerro Gordo County | |
| Merlin Bartz | Republican | 1993-2001 | Worth County | Senator Bartz resigned in 2001 to take a position in the US Department of Agriculture. |
| Amanda Ragan | Democrat | 2002 | Cerro Gordo County | |
| Donald Redfern | Republican | 2003-2004 | Black Hawk County | |
| Jeff Danielson | Democrat | 2005-2012 | Black Hawk County | |
| Jake Chapman | Republican | 2013-2022 | Adel, Iowa | |
| Dan Dawson | Republican | 2023-Present | Council Bluffs, Iowa | |

## Historical district boundaries

| Description | Years effective | Notes |
| Keokuk County Mahaska 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. |
| Keokuk County Mahaska County Poweshiek County | 1850-1851 | |
| Pottawattamie County | 1852-1855 | |
| Appanoose County Decatur County Wayne County | 1856-1859 | |
| Jefferson County | 1860-1863 | |
| Henry County | 1864-1867 | |
| Des Moines County | 1868-1877 | |
| Henry County | 1878-1883 | |
| Henry County Jefferson County | 1884-1887 | |
| Henry County Washington County | 1888-1962 | |
| Louisa County Washington County | 1963-1966 | |
| Keokuk County Mahaska County | 1967-1970 | |
| Buchanan County Delaware County (partial) Linn County (partial) | 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. |
| Dubuque County (partial) Dubuque | 1973-1982 | |
| Cerro Gordo County (partial) Winnebago County (partial) Worth County | 1983-1992 | |
| Cerro Gordo County Mitchell County (partial) Worth County | 1993-2002 | |
| Black Hawk County (partial) Black Hawk Township Cedar Falls Township Lincoln Township Union Township Cedar Falls Hudson Western half of Waterloo | 2003-2012 | |
| Adair County Cass County (partial) Benton Township Franklin Township Grant Township Lincoln Township Anita Wiota Dallas County (partial) Excluding Waukee West Des Moines Guthrie County Polk County (partial) Madison Township Union Township Granger Polk City Sheldahl | 2013-2022 | |
| Pottawattamie County (partial) Carter Lake Council Bluffs Excluding neighborhoods to the east of Interstate 80 | 2023-present | |