page_title: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections
section_title: Iowa
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections / Iowa
context_page_description: The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2012. It coincided with the reelection of President Barack Obama. Elections were held for all 435 seats representing the 50 U.S. states and also for the delegates from the District of Columbia and five major U.S. territories. The winners of this election cycle served in the 113th United States Congress. This was the first congressional election using districts drawn up based on the 2010 United States Census.
  Although Democratic candidates received a nationwide plurality of more than 1.4 million votes in all House elections, the Republican Party won a 33-seat advantage in the state-apportioned totals, thus retaining its House majority by 17 seats. Democrats had picked up 27 seats, enough to win back control of the House, but most of these gains were canceled out due to Republican gains as well as reapportionment, leaving the Democrats with a net gain of eight seats.
context_section_description: Iowa lost one seat in reapportionment, forcing a pair of incumbents, a Democrat and a Republican, into the same district.
caption: Iowa's results