Pottawattamie County voter turnout
How many people does one vote speak for in Pottawattamie County, Iowa?
Only 42% of eligible citizens in Pottawattamie County voted in the 2022 midterm.
2024 presidential: 64% turnout · 1.6 people per vote
Turnout in Pottawattamie County
In the November 2022 midterm, 29,080 of Pottawattamie County’s 70,006 eligible citizens voted: 41.5% turnout. That’s 9.8 points lower than Iowa overall (51.3%) and 4.5 points lower than the national rate (46.0%). With 40,926 eligible citizens sitting it out, each ballot cast spoke for 2.4 people.
In the 2024 presidential election, turnout was 63.9%, so each ballot spoke for 1.6 people. Midterm turnout here ran 22.4 points below the presidential year, which is why every vote in a midterm like 2026 carries extra weight.
Pottawattamie County ranks #4 of 99 counties in Iowa for vote power (#1 has the lowest turnout, so each vote there counts for the most people).
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026 — register or check your status at vote.org.
| County | Rank | Turnout | Per vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbury County | #1 | 39.4% | 2.5 |
| Crawford County | #2 | 40.7% | 2.5 |
| Buena Vista County | #3 | 41.1% | 2.4 |
| Pottawattamie County | #4 | 41.5% | 2.4 |
| Page County | #5 | 42.1% | 2.4 |
| Wapello County | #6 | 42.2% | 2.4 |
| Webster County | #7 | 42.6% | 2.3 |
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