Democrat Catelin Drey won an Aug. 26 special election for Iowa Senate District 1, flipping a Republican-held seat and breaking the GOP’s supermajority in the chamber.
Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch with 4,208 votes (55 percent) to Prosch’s 3,411 votes (44 percent), according to preliminary returns from the Woodbury County Election Department.
Turnout was 23.9 percent, with 7,619 of the district’s 31,911 registered voters casting ballots. Absentee votes proved pivotal, with Drey receiving 1,883 to Prosch’s 1,310.
“I’m just really incredibly honored that the folks in Senate District 1 believed in this campaign as much as the team did and I am looking forward to representing them well,” Drey told the Des Moines Register….