IOWA - 2nd CD 15 counties in South Eastern Iowa
County-Precincts County Seat Pop.Cnty
2001 est.
Appanoose -13 Centerville
8,641
2,949
Cedar -13 Tipton
11,618
2,772
Davis -8 Bloomfield
4,959
2,319
Des Moines -19 Burlington
28,088
13,029
Henry -18 Mount Pleasant
12,175
2,666
Jefferson -12 Fairfield
11,577
1,955
Johnson -57 Iowa City
74,060
27,991
Lee -23 Fort Madison
Keokuk
23,849
9,987
Linn -86 Cedar Rapids C&VB, CoC
114,871
33,393
Louisa -10 Wapello
6,863
1,712
Muscatine -27 Muscatine
24,063
5,648
Van Buren -9 Keosauqua
4,738
1,098
Wapello -24 Ottumwa
21,350
11,138
Washington -13 Washington
12,885
2,703
Wayne -10 Corydon
4,204
1,329
The Congressman for this district is U.S. Rep. Jim Leach (R):
2002 Results
Julie Thomas (D)
 94,767
 45.74%
Jim Leach (R) inc.
 108,130
52.19%
Kevin Litten (L)
4,178
2.02%
Write-In Votes
96
0.05%
Total
 207,171
  
 plurality: 13,363 -- Leach won in all of the district's 15 counties except Davis, Lee and Wapello

Democratic Elected Officials
State Senators
39 - Joe Bolkcom of Iowa City, Assistant Minority Leader
44 - Thomas Courtney of Burlington
15 - Robert Dvorsky of Coralville
46 - Eugene Fraise of Fort Madison
47 - Keith Kreiman of Bloomfield		 State Representatives
88 - Dennis Cohoon of Burlington
36 - Swati Dandekar of Marion 
29 - Ro Foege of Mt. Vernon 
38 - Robert Hogg of Cedar Rapids
93 - Mary Gaskill of Ottumwa
78 - Vicki Lensing of Iowa City 
30 - Dick Myers of Iowa City, Minority Leader
94 - Kurt Swaim of Bloomfield 
33 - Dick Taylor of Cedar Rapids 
34 - Todd Taylor of Cedar Rapids 
90 - John Whitaker of Hillsboro 
92 - Philip Wise of Keokuk

Democratic Party
County Chairs
Appanoose - Dale Fenton of Centerville
Cedar - Alan Bohanan of West Branch
Davis - Cheryll Jones of Bloomfield
Des Moines - Jeff Heland of Burlington
Henry - Kendra Wyse of Wayland     useful site by Joel Garretson
Jefferson - Phil Scott of Fairfield
Johnson - Rod Sullivan of Iowa City
Lee - Carmen Pholpeter of Fort Madison
Linn - Joel D. Miller of Robins
Louisa - Don Foor of Grandview
Muscatine - Betty McMahon of Muscatine & Don Paulson of Letts
Van Buren - Bruce Whitaker of Keosauqua
Wapello - Carl Keeton of Ottumwa
Washington - Robert McConnell of Washington
Wayne - Robert R. Shelton of Corydon

State Central Committee Members
Alan Bohanan of West Branch
Sandy Dockendorff of Danville

Second District Committee  old >

Media
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
KCRG-9 (ABC-Cedar Rapids)
KGAN-2 (CBS-Cedar Rapids)
WMT-AM 600 (Cedar Rapids)

Iowa City Press-Citizen
The Daily Iowan (Univ. of Iowa)

The Hawk Eye (Burlington)

Ottumwa Courier
The Muscatine Journal
The Fairfield Ledger
The Washington Evening Journal
Mount Pleasant News
Fort Madison Daily Democrat
Daily Gate City (Keokuk)
 

 Weeklies
Iowegian (Centerville),  515-856-6336
The Tipton Conservative & Advertiser,  319-886-2131
Democrat (Bloomfield),  515-664-2334
The Wapello Republican,  319-523-4631
Van Buren County Register,  319-293-3197
Times-Republican (Corydon),  515-872-1234

 

Copyright © 2003 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action.