Democrats hold 15 of the 105 seats in the Idaho Legislature, but that may change.
Every seat in the Senate and House is on the ballot. Polls close at 8 p.m., and results will come in throughout the night. EdNews will update this story with outcomes from the most important races.
In a Republican supermajority, most GOP incumbents are expected to win. Eyes will be on three key swing districts that have a mix of Republicans and Democrats in office: District 15 in west Boise, District 26 in central Idaho and District 29 in Pocatello.
Check out our series of election profiles for more coverage on these battleground districts.
Without reliable polling on legislative elections, PAC spending provides some insight into where the closest races may be tonight. The bulk of political action committee money is focused on supporting Republicans in these races:
- District 15 Senate: Republican Desi Burbank, secretary of the Idaho PTA, and Democrat Nancy Gregory, a longtime school district trustee, compete in west Boise. Sen. Codi Galloway did not seek re-election. Read more here.
- District 29 House Seat A: Republican Rep. Dustin Manwaring faces a rematch with Democrat Mary Shea in Pocatello. They are both lawyers. Read more here.
- District 26 House Seat A: Republican Rep. Mike Pohanka is in the middle of a three-way race with Democrat Anita Janis and independent Christian conservative Bella Schiffler in central Idaho. Read more here.
Secretary of state expects high turnout
In a Zoom call with reporters at 2 p.m., Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane said it has been a busy election so far.
A total of 451,841 voters had cast their ballots — including absentee, early and Election Day voting — for a turnout of 42%. McGrane said he expects turnout to exceed 60%.
“I think it’s going to be high for a midterm election,” he said.
By 5:30 p.m., a total of 567,253 Idahoans had cast their votes, bringing the turnout figure to 52%. In another call with McGrane at 7:30, he reported a total of 644,732 ballots cast, for 58% turnout.
There have been reports of lines at some polling locations around the state, McGrane said, and much of that is due to the length of the ballot. In addition to legislative races, Idahoans are voting on three statewide ballot questions, all seven state constitutional officers, various local elections and U.S. Congress races.
Voters can check their registration, find their polling location and view their sample ballot on VoteIdaho.gov. But those online tools were briefly unavailable yesterday and for several hours this morning.
McGrane said the outage yesterday was due to a planned bandwidth upgrade to prepare for Election Day, and the outage this morning was unanticipated. He said the voter tools page was down from about 3:50 a.m. to 6:52 a.m. due to a “bug in the system” related to an update from last week.
“All of that was restored again before 7 a.m.,” McGrane said. “But those voters who woke up first thing in the morning and were looking at their polling locations were reporting issues at that time.”
McGrane said results will not be posted until 9 p.m. Mountain Time, when polls close in North Idaho. He said he expects a data drop just after 9 p.m., mostly from early and absentee voting, but Election Day voting results will take a while to be posted due to the length of the ballot.
“It’s gonna be a long night,” he said.
Full results
When results for individual races are complete, EdNews will mark winners in the table below with a ✅ next to their name. Incumbents are marked in bold. These results are unofficial and collected from VoteIdaho.gov.
| District | Seat | Candidates |
| 1 | Senate |
Scott Herndon (Republican) Steve Johnson (Independent) |
| House A |
Jane Sauter (Republican) Karen Matthee (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Cornel Rasor (Republican) Kathryn Larson (Independent) |
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| 2 | Senate |
Phil Hart (Republican) Valerie Wade (Democrat) |
| House A |
Heather Scott (Republican) Birgid Niedenzu (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Dale Hawkins (Republican) Sabine Krier (Democrat) |
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| 3 | Senate |
Doug Okuniewicz (Republican) Brian Seguin (Democrat) |
| House A |
Vito Barbieri (Republican) Melissa Mateer (Democrat) |
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| House B | Jordan Redman (Republican) | |
| 4 | Senate |
Ben Toews (Republican) Carissa Brewer (Democrat) |
| House A |
Joe Alfieri (Republican) Maxwell McSwain (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Elaine Price (Republican) Aaron Hayes (Democrat) |
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| 5 | Senate |
Carl J. Bjerke (Republican) Adam Chapman (Democrat) |
| House A |
Ron Mendive (Republican) Mirna Pleines (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Tony Wisniewski (Republican) Lee Wallace (Democrat) |
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| 6 | Senate |
Dan Foreman (Republican) Robin Weldy (Democrat) |
| House A |
Colton Bennett (Republican) Trish Carter-Goodheart (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Brandon Mitchell (Republican) Kathy Dawes (Democrat) |
|
| 7 | Senate |
Cindy Carlson (Republican) Patrice Yeatter (Democrat) |
| House A |
Kyle Harris (Republican) Larry Nostrant (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Charlie Shepherd (Republican) Pete Gertonson (Democrat) |
|
| 8 | Senate | Christy Zito (Republican) |
| House A |
Rob Beiswenger (Republican) Heather S. Lewis (Independent) |
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| House B |
Brian Beckley (Republican) Jared Dawson (Democrat) |
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| 9 | Senate |
Brandon Shippy (Republican) Janice Martell (Democrat) |
| House A | John C. Shirts (Republican) | |
| House B |
Judy Boyle (Republican) Lupita Connor (Democrat) |
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| 10 | Senate |
Tammy Nichols (Republican) Nancy M. Parker (Democrat) |
| House A |
Mike Moyle (Republican) Michael Hofferber (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Bruce D. Skaug (Republican) Beth Ann McFalls (Democrat) |
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| 11 | Senate |
Camille Blaylock (Republican) Susan Counsil (Democrat) Esther Ma (Constitution) |
| House A | Kent Marmon (Republican) | |
| House B |
Debbie Geyer (Republican) Joshua Preminger (Democrat) |
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| 12 | Senate |
Ben Adams (Republican) Krystal Flippence (Democrat) |
| House A |
Jeff Cornilles (Republican) Sterling Barnett (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Jaron Crane (Republican) Curtis James (Democrat) |
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| 13 | Senate |
Brian Lenney (Republican) Letishia Silva (Democrat) |
| House A |
Brent J. Crane (Republican) Cliff Hohman (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Steven Tanner (Republican) Cody Gorman (Democrat) |
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| 14 | Senate |
C. Scott Grow (Republican) Kirsten Faith Richardson (Constitution) |
| House A |
Ted Hill (Republican) Jo Daly (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Josh Tanner (Republican) Valerie Ruxton (Democrat) |
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| 15 | Senate |
Desi Burbank (Republican) Nancy Gregory (Democrat) |
| House A |
Steve Berch (Democrat) Steve Keyser (Republican) |
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| House B |
Dori Healey (Republican) Jae Etchart (Democrat) |
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| 16 | Senate |
Soñia Galaviz (Democrat) Geoffrey Surbeck (Republican) |
| House A |
Megan Woller (Democrat) Jackie Davidson (Republican) |
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| House B |
Annie Haws (Democrat) Chandler Stewart Hadraba (Republican) |
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| 17 | Senate |
Carrie Semmelroth (Democrat) Benjamin Chafetz (Republican) |
| House A |
John Gannon (Democrat) James R. Nechwedowich (Republican) |
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| House B |
Megan Egbert (Democrat) Justin Alexander Peter Hughes (Republican) |
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| 18 | Senate | Janie Ward-Engelking (Democrat) |
| House A | Ilana Rubel (Democrat) | |
| House B |
Brooke Green (Democrat) Joseph Bishop (Libertarian) |
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| 19 | Senate |
Melissa Wintrow (Democrat) Melissa J. Christian (Republican) |
| House A |
Monica C. Church (Democrat) Bryan Hopkins (Republican) |
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| House B |
Chris Mathias (Democrat) Stanley Roach (Republican) |
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| 20 | Senate |
Josh Keyser (Republican) Pamela Renee Wilson (Democrat) |
| House A |
Joe A. Palmer (Republican) Jennifer Stephens (Democrat) |
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| House B |
James D. Holtzclaw (Republican) Mary A. Mosley (Democrat) |
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| 21 | Senate | Treg A. Bernt (Republican) |
| House A |
James Petzke (Republican) Camille Allan (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Jeff Ehlers (Republican) Casey Hess (Democrat) |
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| 22 | Senate |
Lori Den Hartog (Republican) Karlie Easley (Democrat) |
| House A |
Kelly Walton (Republican) Loren Petty (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Jason A. Monks (Republican) Amanda Easley (Democrat) |
|
| 23 | Senate |
Todd Lakey (Republican) Paul Morgan (Democrat) |
| House A |
Chris Bruce (Republican) Paul M. Smith (Constitution) |
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| House B |
Shawn R. Dygert (Republican) Joe Fuller (Democrat) |
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| 24 | Senate |
Brent D. Reinke (Republican) Mary Jo Durfee (Democrat) |
| House A |
Clint Hostetler (Republican) Kevin Moxley (Independent) |
|
| House B | Chance Requa (Republican) | |
| 25 | Senate |
Casey Swensen (Republican) W. Lane Startin (Democrat) |
| House A |
Grayson Stone (Republican) Marla Palmer (Democrat) |
|
| House B |
Cherie Vollmer (Republican) Liyah Babayan (Independent) |
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| 26 | Senate |
Ron Taylor (Democrat) Bryan Hyde (Republican) Shaila Tate (Independent) |
| House A |
Mike Pohanka (Republican) Anita Janis (Democrat) Bella Schiffler (Independent) |
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| House B |
Lyle Johnstone (Republican) Kevin Marsh (Democrat) |
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| 27 | Senate |
Kelly Arthur Anthon (Republican) Margo Saunders (Democrat) |
| House A | Douglas T. Pickett (Republican) | |
| House B | Clay Handy (Republican) | |
| 28 | Senate |
Jim Guthrie (Republican) Mandy Peace (Democrat) |
| House A |
Richard “Rick” Cheatum (Republican) Kim Jackman (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Dan Garner (Republican) Jayson Meline (Democrat) |
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| 29 | Senate |
James D. Ruchti (Democrat) John Crowder (Republican) |
| House A |
Dustin W. Manwaring (Republican) Mary Shea (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Jennifer Miles (Republican) Nate Roberts (Democrat) |
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| 30 | Senate |
Julie VanOrden (Republican) Joni Lin Sorensen (Democrat) |
| House A | David Cannon (Republican) | |
| House B |
Ben G. Fuhriman (Republican) Bree Buckingham (Democrat) |
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| 31 | Senate |
Van T. Burtenshaw (Republican) Kevin Gerrard (Democrat) |
| House A |
Jerald Dallas Raymond (Republican) Kindsey Smith (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Rod Furniss (Republican) Wendy Norman (Democrat) |
|
| 32 | Senate |
Kevin J. Cook (Republican) Konnor Whitfield (Democrat) |
| House A | Stephanie Mickelsen (Republican) | |
| House B |
Erin Bingham (Republican) Kamber Weninger (Democrat) |
|
| 33 | Senate |
Dave Lent (Republican) Jan Brown (Democrat) |
| House A |
Barbara Ehardt (Republican) Chance Marshall (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Marco Erickson (Republican) Todd DeVries (Democrat) |
|
| 34 | Senate |
Doug Ricks (Republican) Ethan Sanford (Democrat) |
| House A | Jon O. Weber (Republican) | |
| House B | Britt Raybould (Republican) | |
| 35 | Senate |
Mark Harris (Republican) Marty Rotz Kilhefner (Democrat) |
| House A |
Mike Veile (Republican) Walter Boyd (Democrat) |
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| House B |
Joshua D. Wheeler (Republican) Mary Kaufman (Democrat) |
