A judge completed a judicial review of the Nov. 4 election at the request of the Idaho Secretary of State and Elmore County clerk's offices.

A city in southeastern Idaho will no longer have runoff elections if a mayoral candidate does not receive a majority of the vote. At the Pocatello City Council meeting last week, the governing body addressed a motion to amend Pocatello’s municipal code to “eliminate the majority requirement and runoff process for the office of mayor,

While there will be far fewer ballot initiatives affecting abortion access in the 2026 midterm elections than there were in the previous national election, two in Republican-led states could be consequential.