Joni K Ernst

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 · Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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

$6,959,699total raised (2026 cycle)

$5,553,636total spent (2026 cycle)

$1,934,478cash on hand (2026 cycle)

As of 2026-06-30 · 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_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joni_Ernst_(25540883566).jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joni_Ernst_(43655548451).jpg
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
FEC candidate status changed — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S4IA00129/?cycle=2026

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