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Christina Bohannan, a Democrat, law professor and former Iowa state representative, faces Republican incumbent Mariannette Miller-Meeks and independent Michael Bridgford in Iowa's 1st congressional district in 2026, her third race against Miller-Meeks.
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Though forecasters and polls show tight races in Iowa, Republicans retain a state lead in registered voters. GOP candidates and leaders have urged Republicans to mobilize and participate in the Nov.
“This is where the campaigns themselves are going to have to make sure that they've got a good plan for doing that local level get out to vote activity more than anything else,” Hagle said.
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Christina Bohannan was born on July 2, 1971, and grew up in Florida as the youngest of three children; her father was a construction worker and her mother worked at a daycare. She earned a Bachelor of Science in environmental engineering from the University of Florida in Gainesville and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Bohannan is married and has a daughter, and she and her husband live in Iowa City.
Christina Bohannan began her career in the 1990s as an environmental engineer with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. After law school she served as a law clerk for a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and in 2000 she moved to Iowa to become a professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she also served as president of the faculty senate.
Bohannan announced her candidacy for the 85th district seat in the Iowa House of Representatives in October 2019, defeated incumbent legislator Vicki Lensing by 32 percentage points in the Democratic primary, and won the general election unopposed.
She served from 2021 to 2023, sitting on the Natural Resources and Veterans Affairs committees, and helped advance bipartisan legislation on human trafficking and elder abuse. Bohannan was the Democratic nominee for Iowa's 1st congressional district in 2022 and lost to Mariannette Miller-Meeks.
She ran again in 2024 and lost a close race that was decided after a recount.
Iowa's 1st congressional district is based in the southeastern part of the state and includes the cities of Davenport and Iowa City. The incumbent is Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who was re-elected with 50.0% of the vote in 2024, the narrowest win of any incumbent House Republican that year.
Christina Bohannan announced her third campaign for the seat on June 17, 2025, and won the June 2026 Democratic primary with 42,862 votes, or 81.5%, over healthcare worker Travis Terrell.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Miller-Meeks in a rematch, along with independent financial advisor Michael Bridgford.
