(Radio Iowa) – Iowa has four congressional districts and, once the votes are counted in this election, at least two but perhaps three of the four districts will be represented by women. University of Northern Iowa political science professor Donna Hoffman says getting more female representation, at all levels, is a national trend — and national studies show women are better than men at constituent case work. “The more experience that voters have with diverse models of representation, quite frankly the better off representation in the United States will be,” Hoffman says.

Iowa currently has two congresswomen, both seeking reelection to a second term. Democrat Cindy Axne of West Des Moines is in a rematch in the third district with former Republican Congressman David Young, a Republican. In Iowa’s first district, incumbent Abby Finkenauer, a Democrat from Cedar Rapids, faces Republican Ashley Hinson of Marion. She’s a former T-V reporter in the Cedar Rapids market. Hoffman says both have emphasized how they have responded to derecho victims in the district. “This is one of the races that people across the country are watching,” Hoffman says, “the parties are sinking money into, lots of people are sinking money into.”

Hinson, who spoke with Radio Iowa this weekend, raised one-point-six million dollars for her campaign in the third quarter. “It shows the strength of our campaign and I think it shows that we are going to win this race on Tuesday,” Hinson said. Hinson has highlighted her votes as a member of the state legislature to reduce state taxes. During the president’s rally in Dubuque Sunday, she declared Iowa “Trump Country” and this was her message to a crowd in Maquoketa.”Abby Finkenauer is marching in lockstep with Pelosi and Biden as well,” Hinson said this weekend in Maquoketa. Finkenauer spoke Saturday at a rally with other Democrats in Marion.”We are going to keep this congressional district blue. We are going to send Joe Biden to that White House,” she said.

Finkenauer worked on Biden’s 2008 Iowa campaign and she endorsed him before this year’s Iowa Caucuses. In Iowa’s second congressional district, two women — Democrat Rita Hart of Wheatland and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottuwma — are competing for that seat. Dave Loebsack, a Democrat from Iowa City, is not seeking reelection .