November 8, 2016 2022 → 60.1% 35.7% | 926,007 549,460 Date 8 November 2016 | |
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Winner Chuck Grassley | ||
The 2016 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Iowa, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
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Incumbent Republican Senator Chuck Grassley won re-election to a seventh term in office. Primary elections were held on June 7, 2016. with Grassley winning the Republican nomination, and Patty Judge winning the Democratic nomination. Grassley won on November 8, 2016.
Background
Republican Chuck Grassley was first elected to the Senate in 1980, defeating Democratic incumbent John Culver by 53% to 46%. Since then, Grassley has been re-elected five times, most recently in 2010, on each occasion taking at least 64% of the vote.
Despite speculation that Grassley, who turned 83 years old in 2016, might retire, he announced in September 2013 that he was "making plans to run for re-election", but added that "it's not taking much of my time. I’m concentrating on doing my job for Iowans."