Joni K Ernst

Vec- 4 · OpenTenR 55%Att1

Joni K Ernst ran for U.S. Senate in IA in 2026 as a Republican.

American politician and military officer (born 1970)

IncumbentU.S. Senate - IARepublicanPast candidateVugol ID VM-BNS-NJW0 FEC S4IA00129

Ran for U.S. Senate, IA in 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/joni-k-ernst

Roster source: FEC filing (2026-08-26)

Headshot · unitedstates.github.io

Joni K Ernst, Photo — Photo · ernst.senate.gov

Joni K Ernst, Illustration · Vugol.me — Illustration · Vugol.me
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain

Races

2026 · U.S. Senate, IA · Primary · Republican · result not on file · incumbent
2020 · U.S. Senate, IA · General · Republican · won · 864,997 votes (51.7%) · source

Background

Joni Kay Ernst is an American politician and retired military officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Iowa. She is a member of the Republican Party.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-25 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Ernst

Campaign finance

$6,964,047total raised (2026 cycle)

$5,690,660total spent (2026 cycle)

$1,801,802cash on hand (2026 cycle)

As of 2026-09-30 · Source: FEC

Website and social

Official websitevia Wikidata

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Sources

Official portrait, public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
Background, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Ernst
Website and social links, Wikidata (CC0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13475242
Official social accounts, congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
Roster, FEC filing https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S4IA00129/
photo_headshot https://unitedstates.github.io/
photo_gallery https://www.ernst.senate.gov/about
photo_gallery https://www.ernst.senate.gov/about
photo_gallery https://www.ernst.senate.gov/about
photo_gallery https://www.ernst.senate.gov/about
photo_gallery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joni_Ernst_(43655548451).jpg
photo_gallery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joni_Ernst_(25540883566).jpg
FEC candidate status changed https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S4IA00129/?cycle=2026

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