2022 Iowa gubernatorial election
The 2022 Iowa gubernatorial election will be on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Iowa. Incumbent Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, who is running for reelection to a second full term, was elected as lieutenant governor in 2014 and assumed the governorship on May 24, 2017, following the resignation of Governor Terry Branstad to take office as the U.S. Ambassador to China. She was elected in her own right in 2018.