Josh Turek Defeats Ashley Hinson, Flipping Iowa’s US Senate Seat

Newsweek · Anna Skinner, Anna Commander · 2026-11-04 04:51 UTC

Iowa is among several key Senate races unfolding this year as Republicans seek to defend their House and Senate majorities.

Democrat Josh Turek won Iowa's U.S. Senate race on Tuesday, defeating Republican U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson in a contest closely watched as a measure of political sentiment in the rural Midwest.

Turek, an Iowa state representative and two-time Paralympic gold medalist, received 50.5 percent of the vote to Hinson's 46.4 percent.

Turek said in his victory speech that the system has been broken for too long.

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