It currently has no members of Congress from Iowa, superminorities in both houses of the state legislature, and 1 out of 7 statewide elected officials.

[6] In 2007, Democratic governor Chet Culver signed legislation easing limitations on stem-cell research.

[7] Later in 2009 and 2010, Democratic governor Chet Culver signed into law $875 million to go towards the I-Jobs program.

[9] Democratic governor Chet Culver signed legislation in 2007 that created the Iowa Power Fund.

[12] In 2010, Culver signed House File 2532 which allows benefits paid for by the Veterans Trust Fund to be exempted from individual income taxes.

This reversed the trend of the prior twenty years, when Republicans had consistent success in Iowa's presidential elections.

Following Vilsack's decision to not run for reelection then-Secretary of State Chet Culver ran in 2006 and won.

In the 2018 Iowa elections, Democrat Rob Sand defeated incumbent Republican Mary Mosiman to become State Auditor.

In the 2022 Iowa elections, Democrats lost every statewide office except that of State Auditor.

By that time, new waves of immigrants and their descendants, and working-class unions in industry in Iowa's largest cities had aligned with the Democratic Party.

This demographic change translated into Democratic success first in Iowa's largest city Des Moines.

They used computer models to analyze voters on a precinct-by-precinct basis, and ran issue-driven campaigns attuned to local issues.

Republicans regained dominance in the late 1970s in state government, but Democrats remained a competitive party in Iowa.

Democratic presidential candidates were historically unsuccessful in capturing the state's electoral votes.

Southern Democrat Woodrow Wilson won Iowa in the 1912 presidential election against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.

It was twenty years before another Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the state, and that during the Great Depression and a time of national crisis.

Following Gillette's defeat in 1944, Iowa Democrats did not control a U.S. Senate seat until the election of Harold Hughes in 1969.

In 1963 Harold Hughes was elected Governor of Iowa; he was twice re-elected, serving a total of three two-year terms, from 1963 to 1969.

As Republicans became more successful in the Midwest, Fulton was the last Democratic governor of Iowa until Tom Vilsack was elected in 1999.