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File · Money Read
What the money shows
Joni Ernst has an estimated net worth of $790,000. The 2026 campaign raised $1.6M. Outside groups had $15,476 spent against Joni Ernst and $10,220 spent for Joni Ernst. Joni Ernst sits on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit and Emerging Threats and Capabilities.
Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC
Est. net worth
$790K
$255K+
Years in role
11
Senator since 2015
Net-worth filings
11
+$767K since 2015
File A — Net Worth
Net worth over time
Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.
Why negative? Financial disclosures require officials to report mortgages and loans as liabilities, but exclude personal residences and other non-income-producing assets. Someone whose main asset is their home can show a negative disclosednet worth in some years — it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re in debt. See methodology.
midpoint disclosed range govt salary
source filing →† Includes one or more open-ended top brackets (over $50M). The high end is a floor, so the true figure may be higher.
File C — Service
Term history
- SenatorIAR2021 – 2027 · 6 yrs
- SenatorIAR2015 – 2021 · 6 yrs
File D — Benchmark
If they'd just invested 20%
A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 10%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.
hypothetical retirement actual net worth salary
Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.
File — Background
Senator Joni Ernst, IA
Born July 1, 1970.
Studied at
Iowa State University · Columbus State University [wikidata]
File — The 2026 race
Iowa · Senate
General election 2026-11-03. Money figures are FEC filings for the 2026 cycle.
The read · Iowa · Senate
Joni Ernst ranks No. 4 in money raised.
Republican Ashley Arenholz leads the field with about $7.5M raised.
Joshua Turek reports 93% of campaign money from individuals.
The incumbent, Joni Ernst, ranks No. 4 in the money.
Public campaign-finance filings, 2026 cycle. Candidate rows are filers on record, not final ballot lists. Totals are rounded to whole dollars.
The tale of the tape
Money, side by side. Green marks the leader on each line.
Ashley Arenholz R · challenger AA | vs |  Joshua Turek D · challenger |
|---|---|---|
| $7.5M | Raised | $6.3M |
| $6.7M | Cash on hand | $2.4M |
| 29% | From PACs | 6% |
| 70% | From individuals | 93% |
| Too few to rank | Top donor sector | Too few to rank |
| No | Incumbent | No |
Contractor money
Federal contractors who funded this member
This is a documented association, not a claim that campaign money caused an award.
In your committees' jurisdiction - and funded you
SSAS · Department of Defense
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Bills
Recorded votes
31 votes · 25 Yea · 6 Nay. "Sector money" is this member's corporate and union money from the sector each bill touches. Receipts, not a claim about the vote. Money-linked votes first.
1–15 of 31
File — The Iowa delegation
Who else Iowa sends to Congress
2 senators and 4 of 4 House seats filled. Counting this seat.
- Chuck GrassleySenatorR
- Mariannette Miller-MeeksDistrict 1R
- Ashley HinsonDistrict 2R
- Zachary NunnDistrict 3R
- Randy FeenstraDistrict 4R
Seat counts come from the 2020 census apportionment. A seat shows as open when no current member holds it. Source
File — Where this page comes from
Joni Ernst · sources
Only sources that fed this profile are listed here.
| Source | What it gave this page | Last fetched |
|---|---|---|
| @unitedstates congress-legislators github.com | Roster, terms, identifiers, official site link | 2026-07-30 |
| Wikidata www.wikidata.org | Education, career before office, family ties | 2026-07-30 |
| Federal Election Commission (OpenFEC) api.open.fec.gov | How much the campaign raised, and who gave it | 2026-09-23 |
| The member's official site | Where to reach them. We link out rather than republishing office addresses and phone numbers. | - |