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2022 Iowa Secretary of Agriculture election

The 2022 Iowa Secretary of Agriculture election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Secretary of Agriculture of Iowa, concurrently with elections to the United States Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, governor, and other state and local elections. Primary elections were held on June 7, 2022.

Incumbent Republican agriculture secretary Mike Naig won re-election to a second full term in office against Polk County commissioner John Norwood in a landslide. Naig received the highest percentage of the vote of any Republican statewide candidate in 2022, and was the only statewide Republican in 2022 to win Linn County, which contains Cedar Rapids.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

  • Mike Naig, incumbent agriculture secretary (2018-present)

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

  • John Norwood, businessman and Polk County soil and water commissioner

Results

General election

Results

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Naig won 10 counties that voted for Democrat Tim Gannon in 2018.

By congressional district

Naig won all four congressional districts.

See also

References