 The state currently has two Democratic senators, and a 13–5 Democratic majority U.S. House of Representatives delegation.Many analysts consider Iowa the most evenly divided state in the country, but it has leaned Democratic for at least the past fifteen years.Iowa had a Democratic governor from 1999 until Terry Branstad was re-elected in the mid-term elections in 2010, and has had both one Democratic and one Republican senator since the early 1980s until the 2014 election when Republican Joni Ernst defeated Democrat Bruce Braley in a tightly contested race.