1960 Iowa Senate election

1960 Iowa Senate election
29 out of 50 seats in the Iowa State Senate; 26 seats needed for a majority
Majority Leader before election; Jack Schroeder; Republican	Elected Majority Leader ; J. Kendall Lynes; Republican

The 1960 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1960 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 29 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.

A statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the year 1960 is provided by the Iowa General Assembly here.

The primary election on June 6, 1960 determined which candidates appeared on the November 8, 1960 general election ballot.^[1]^[2]

Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa state Senate with 33 seats to Democrats' 17 seats.

To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 9 Senate seats.

Republicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1960 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 35 seats and Democrats having 15 seats (a net gain of 2 seats for Republicans).

Summary of Results

Note: The 21 holdover Senators not up for re-election are not listed on this table.^[3]

State Senate District	Incumbent	Party		Incoming Senator	Party
2nd	Norval Evans	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Dewey Blake Phelps	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
3rd	Gene L. Hoffman	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem	Joe N. Wilson	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
4th	William C. Stuart	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	William C. Stuart	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
5th	Xavier Thomas Prentis	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Xavier Thomas Prentis	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
6th	Francis Austin Turner	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Orval C. Walter	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem
8th	William H. Harbor	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Edward Anderson Wearin	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
11th	J. Louis Fisher	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	J. Louis Fisher	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
14th	Carroll F. McCurdy	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem	John Gray	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
15th	Carroll Price	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Carroll Price	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
16th	Raymond R. Gillespie	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem	Joseph B. Flatt	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
17th	Gerald William Prince	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Harry L. Cowden	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
19th	Jim O. Henry	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Richard C. Turner	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
23rd	David Earl Elijah	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	David Earl Elijah	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
24th	Jans T. "J. T." Dykhouse	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Jans T. "J. T." Dykhouse	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
25th	Daniel Clifford "D. C." Nolan	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Daniel Clifford "D. C." Nolan	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
26th	Frank C. Byers	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Martin Wiley	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
27th	C. Joseph Coleman	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem	C. Joseph Coleman	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem
28th	Howard C. Buck	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Howard C. Buck	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
31st	Carl H. Ringgenberg	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Clifford N. Nystrom	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
32nd	Jack Richard Miller	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Charles S. Van Eaton	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
33rd	Irving D. Long	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Irving D. Long	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
36th	John J. O'Connor	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem	Adolph W. Elvers	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem
39th	J. Kendall Lynes	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	J. Kendall Lynes	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
40th	George Lindsey Scott	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	George Lindsey Scott	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
41st	Jacob Grimstead	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	Jacob Grimstead	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
43rd	Walter E. Edelen	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem	Leigh Raymond Curran	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
46th	Laurence M. Boothby	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	J. Henry Lucken	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
47th	LeRoy Getting	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	LeRoy Getting	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep
49th	Duane E. Dewel	style="background:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Rep	John J. Brown	style="background:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dem

Source:^[4]

Detailed Results

NOTE: The 21 districts that did not hold elections in 1960 are not listed here.

District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 8 • District 11 • District 14 • District 15 • District 16 • District 17 • District 19 • District 23 • District 24 • District 25 • District 26 • District 27 • District 28 • District 31 • District 32 • District 33 • District 36 • District 39 • District 40 • District 41 • District 43 • District 46 • District 47 • District 49

Note: The Iowa Secretary of State's website does not document any competitive intra-party primaries for state Senate races in 1960.^[5]

District 2

Iowa Senate, District 2 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dewey B. Phelps	7,233	61.2
	Democratic	Melvin D. Crist	4,582	38.8
Total votes			11,815	100.0
	Republican hold

District 3

Iowa Senate, District 3 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Joe N. Wilson	6,657	51.6
	Democratic	Gene L. Hoffman (incumbent)	6,241	48.4
Total votes			12,898	100.0
	Republican gain from Democratic

District 4

Iowa Senate, District 4 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	W. C. Stuart (incumbent)	6,311	56.2
	Democratic	B. D. Hellyer	4,924	43.8
Total votes			11,235	100.0
	Republican hold

District 5

Iowa Senate, District 5 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	X. T. Prentis (incumbent)	8,810	54.1
	Democratic	Herman Fenema	7,487	45.9
Total votes			16,297	100.0
	Republican hold

District 6

Iowa Senate, District 6 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Orval C. Walter	4,958	54.9
	Republican	Henry G. Bycroft	4,067	45.1
Total votes			9,025	100.0
	Democratic gain from Republican

District 8

Iowa Senate, District 8 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edward A. Wearin	8,003	65.1
	Democratic	Arleigh E. Odem	4,289	34.9
Total votes			12,292	100.0
	Republican hold

District 11

Iowa Senate, District 11 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	J. Louis Fisher (incumbent)	7,446	52.8
	Democratic	James E. Hatcher	6,657	47.2
Total votes			14,103	100.0
	Republican hold

District 14

Iowa Senate, District 14 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John Gray	5,468	53.5
	Democratic	Carroll F. McCurdy (incumbent)	4,761	46.5
Total votes			10,229	100.0
	Republican gain from Democratic

District 15

Iowa Senate, District 15 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Carroll L. Price (incumbent)	9,148	55.2
	Democratic	Edward G. Doughman	7,411	44.8
Total votes			16,559	100.0
	Republican hold

District 16

Iowa Senate, District 16 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Joseph B. Flatt	6,483	55.4
	Democratic	Merlyn Sulgrove	5,224	44.6
Total votes			11,707	100.0
	Republican gain from Democratic

District 17

Iowa Senate, District 17 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Harry L. Cowden	12,262	52.6
	Democratic	Robert C. Dailey	11,035	47.4
Total votes			23,297	100.0
	Republican hold

District 19

Iowa Senate, District 19 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Richard C. Turner	17,913	55.6
	Democratic	Gilbert C. Klefstad	14,301	44.4
Total votes			32,214	100.0
	Republican hold

District 23

Iowa Senate, District 23 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Earl Elijah (incumbent)	13,877	54.5
	Democratic	Richard C. Benischek	11,571	45.5
Total votes			25,448	100.0
	Republican hold

District 24

Iowa Senate, District 24 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	J. T. Dykhouse (incumbent)	17,503	100.0
Total votes			17,503	100.0
	Republican hold

District 25

Iowa Senate, District 25 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	D. C. Nolan (incumbent)	15,071	54.4
	Democratic	Carl J. Goetz, Jr.	12,613	45.6
Total votes			27,684	100.0
	Republican hold

District 26

Iowa Senate, District 26 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Martin Wiley	31,729	52.6
	Democratic	Robert F. Wilson	28,606	47.4
Total votes			60,335	100.0
	Republican hold

District 27

Iowa Senate, District 27 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	C. Joseph Coleman (incumbent)	14,327	54.2
	Republican	Forrest D. Bailey	12,098	45.8
Total votes			26,425	100.0
	Democratic hold

District 28

Iowa Senate, District 28 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Howard C. Buck (incumbent)	9,394	59.8
	Democratic	Max M. Brewster	6,328	40.2
Total votes			15,722	100.0
	Republican hold

District 31

Iowa Senate, District 31 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Clifford Nystrom	17,556	57.1
	Democratic	Eldon Dean Hastie	13,204	42.9
Total votes			30,760	100.0
	Republican hold

District 32

Iowa Senate, District 32 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Charles S. Van Eaton	24,055	51.4
	Democratic	Donald V. Doyle	22,765	48.6
Total votes			46,820	100.0
	Republican hold

District 33

Iowa Senate, District 33 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Irving D. Long (incumbent)	9,577	56.1
	Democratic	Edward B. Fitzpatrick	7,494	43.9
Total votes			17,071	100.0
	Republican hold

District 36

Iowa Senate, District 36 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Adolph Elvers	5,483	51.4
	Republican	F. E. Sharp	5,185	48.6
Total votes			10,668	100.0
	Democratic hold

District 39

Iowa Senate, District 39 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	J. Kendall Lynes (incumbent)	14,859	65.5
	Democratic	Chris Hansen	7,810	34.5
Total votes			22,669	100.0
	Republican hold

District 40

Iowa Senate, District 40 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	George L. Scott (incumbent)	12,314	59.2
	Democratic	Joseph F. Leehy	8,490	40.8
Total votes			20,804	100.0
	Republican hold

District 41

Iowa Senate, District 41 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jacob Grimstead (incumbent)	9,666	55.8
	Democratic	William H. Biedermann	7,657	44.2
Total votes			17,323	100.0
	Republican hold

District 43

Iowa Senate, District 43 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Leigh R. Curran	15,500	53.4
	Democratic	Walter E. Edelen (incumbent)	13,513	46.6
Total votes			29,013	100.0
	Republican gain from Democratic

District 46

Iowa Senate, District 46 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	J. Henry Lucken	14,182	62.4
	Democratic	R. A. Boatman	8,539	37.6
Total votes			22,721	100.0
	Republican hold

District 47

Iowa Senate, District 47 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	LeRoy Getting (incumbent)	12,640	57.5
	Democratic	A. M. Schoenewe	9,348	42.5
Total votes			21,988	100.0
	Republican hold

District 49

Iowa Senate, District 49 General Election, 1960
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John J. Brown	12,534	52.0
	Republican	Max M. Soeth	11,547	48.0
Total votes			24,081	100.0
	Democratic gain from Republican

References

^ "Primary Election 1960 For State Senator". Iowa Official Register. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
^ "General Election 1960 For State Senator". Iowa Official Register. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
^ "Holdover State Senators". Iowa Official Register. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
^ "Legislators". Iowa State Senate. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
^ "State Senate Primary Canvass 1960" (PDF). Iowa Secretary of State. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

[1] "Primary Election 1960 For State Senator". Iowa Official Register. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

[2] "General Election 1960 For State Senator". Iowa Official Register. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

[3] "Holdover State Senators". Iowa Official Register. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

[4] "Legislators". Iowa State Senate. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

[5] "State Senate Primary Canvass 1960" (PDF). Iowa Secretary of State. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

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