Iowa Code section 68A.404 requires individuals or organizations that spend over $1000 to advocate for or against a state candidate or ballot issue to file a statement within 48 hours. The State of Iowa provides these filings, which detail independent expenditures made without campaign coordination. The data was last updated on March 14, 2026.
Use Cases
- Tracking independent spending patterns in state elections based on expenditure reporting requirements.
- Analyzing advocacy for or against ballot issues based on the independent expenditure filings.
- Identifying major non-campaign spenders in Iowa politics based on the $1000 reporting threshold.
- Studying the timing of political communications based on the 48-hour filing requirement.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from official state filings required by Iowa Code 68A.404.
- Includes expenditures for both state candidates and ballot issues.
- Available in multiple machine-readable formats including XML, RDF, JSON, and CSV.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- State of Iowa
- Collection Method
- Mandatory filings by individuals or organizations under Iowa campaign finance law.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-14 21:44:48.004506; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Iowa, United States