Joni Ernst
Republican · IA · U.S. Senate
Joni Ernst is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026. Josh Turek vs. Ashley Hinson.
D +13 points of win probability since January.
Bio
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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.7 years
- First took office
- 2015 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 63 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 56
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair · 2019–2023
- Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair · 2023–2025
- Cedar Rapids, IA · 319-365-4504
- Davenport, IA · 563-322-0677
- Des Moines, IA · 515-284-4574
- Sioux City, IA · 712-252-1550
- Council Bluffs, IA · 712-352-1167
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $355k – $1.4M
- Liabilities
- $50k – $100k
- Net worth
- $255k – $1.3M
- Since 2018
- +$1.3M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Joni Ernst's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Joni Ernst (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Ernstsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Ernst's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
'MAGA morons' and 'insanity': Retiring GOP senator unleashes ruthless Trump onslaughtA Republican senator on the outs has dedicated an entire book to criticizing the "MAGA morons" surrounding President Donald Trump, whom he predicts will trigger an election day disaster for the GOP that will last for years, a quietly released excerpt reveals.…
Raw Story · October 2, 2026
Eric Schmitt's bad Jack Smith intel came directly from White House: Top GOP senatorWASHINGTON, D.C. — A top Republican senator suspects Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was handed his bad intel directly by the White House before his possibly career-ending Jack Smith slam dunk.Schmitt was massively humiliated as his gotcha moment — unveiling proof t…
Raw Story · September 30, 2026- 10,000 US households with million-dollar incomes have collected unemployment
Ten thousand U.S. households that earned over $1 million collected unemployment benefits in 2024, receiving nearly $100 million in taxpayer money, according to data shared with The Washington Times. The data was given to the newspaper by Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Er…
Freerepublic.com · September 29, 2026 
GOP senator voices fear about 'dying in office' — and having a Dem governor replace himA Republican senator who was elected to his seat eight years before Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico was even born is worried he could die in office — and that a Democratic governor could pick his replacement.The Washington Post reports that 93-…
Raw Story · September 28, 2026
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