US Midterms 2026
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Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican physician who has represented Iowa in the U.S. House since 2021, seeks re-election in Iowa's 1st congressional district in 2026 against Democrat Christina Bohannan and independent Michael Bridgford.
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Republican incumbent Mariannette Miller-Meeks is facing Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan in the race for Iowa’s District 1 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Mariannette Miller-Meeks was born Mariannette Jane Miller in Herlong, California, on September 6, 1955.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Texas Christian University in 1976, a Master of Science in education from the University of Southern California in 1980, and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1986.
She served on active duty in the United States Army from 1976 to 1982 and joined the Army Reserve in 1983, retiring in 2000. She is married to Curt Meeks, has two children, and is a Roman Catholic.
Mariannette Miller-Meeks operated a private ophthalmology practice in Ottumwa, Iowa, until 2008, served as the first female president of the Iowa Medical Society, and was the first woman in twenty years to be a faculty member of the University of Iowa's department of ophthalmology and visual sciences.
In 2010 Governor Terry Branstad appointed her director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, which she led until 2013.
She was the Republican nominee for Iowa's 2nd congressional district in 2008, 2010, and 2014, losing each time to Dave Loebsack, and she represented District 41 in the Iowa Senate from 2019 to 2021.
After Loebsack retired, Miller-Meeks won the 2nd district in 2020 over Democrat Rita Hart by six votes after a recount; Hart contested the result before the House and later withdrew her challenge.
Redistricting renumbered the seat as the 1st district for 2022, and she defeated Christina Bohannan that year by 53% to 47% and again in 2024 by 799 votes after a recount. In the 118th Congress she chaired the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
She chairs the Conservative Climate Caucus and is a member of the moderate Republican Governance Group.
Iowa's 1st congressional district is based in the southeastern part of the state and includes the cities of Davenport and Iowa City. Mariannette Miller-Meeks was re-elected there with 50.0% of the vote in 2024, the narrowest win of any incumbent House Republican that year.
In the June 2026 Republican primary she defeated David Pautsch, a ministry founder who had also sought the nomination in 2024 and who received 28.4% of the vote.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative, for the third consecutive time, along with independent candidate Michael Bridgford.
