Iowa Code § 50.29: Certificate of election.

1. When any person is thus declared elected, there shall be delivered to that person a certificate of election, under the official seal of the county, in substance as follows:

STATE OF IOWA )

County. )

At an election held in said county on the day of (month), (year), (candidate’s name) was elected to the office of for the term of years from the day of (month), (year) [if elected to fill a vacancy, for the residue of the term ending on the day of (month), (year)], and until a successor is elected and qualified.

,

President of Board of Canvassers.

Witness, ,

County Commissioner of Elections

(clerk).

2. The certificate of election is presumptive evidence of the person’s election and qualification.