ELECTIONS
News and insights about the candidates and issues on the ballots in 2026
‘Everything on the table’: How parents and neighbors ended Salmon’s decades-long school bond drought
Voters rejected 12 straight proposals for a new school. Then a group of volunteers stepped in to rebuild trust.
The immediate focus of the leadership team will be to restore peace and harmony to the central committee
The self-styled Idaho Freedom Foundation bragged that the election was “historic” and concluded that “Idaho has spoken.”
“Even if it was one vote, that was all we really cared about.”
Fifteen incumbents lost on Tuesday. The Legislature appears poised to shift further to the right. And outside PAC money made the primaries more costly and more caustic.
INSIDE: A list of the 15 incumbents who lost Tuesday. Plus, one legislative race flipped in the middle of the night, and it’s potentially a big one for education.
Incumbent education leaders fared well in GOP contests — with one exception.
House Education’s anti-voucher wall may be coming down, while the Senate has lost its most powerful school choice proponent.
Measures pass in Salmon, Mountain View, and West Ada; McCall’s bond and West Bonner’s levy fail.
We asked candidates about their most important education priorities and where they stand on controversial education issues dividing the Legislature.
