The Democratic ticket for governor and lieutenant governor in Iowa is Hubbell-Hart. Fred Hubbell, the Democratic nominee for governor, has chosen state Senator Rita Hart as his running mate.

Hart is a farmer and former teacher from the small eastern Iowa town of Wheatland.

Hart and her husband have been operating his family’s century farm near Wheatland since 1986.

She’s been a state senator since January of 2013, representing all of Clinton County as well as northern and eastern parts of Scott County.

Lieutenant governors in Iowa were independently elected until 1990. That’s the year a constitutional change took effect and party nominees for governor began choosing a lieutenant governor as a running mate, in the same way the president and vice president run together as a team.