A local commercial real estate developer and lifelong Idaho Falls resident won the runoff election for Seat 2 on the Idaho Falls City Council after none of the seven original candidates won the required 50% of the vote in November.

The 2025 election wraps up tonight, Tuesday, December 2, 2025, as polls are now open for critical runoff elections in both Idaho Falls and Pocatello. This is the final chance for residents in both cities to cast their ballots and decide the leadership that will guide their communities over the next four years.

A runoff race for the next Idaho Falls mayor ended Tuesday night, electing a lifelong Idaho Falls resident and former city council member to the city’s top spot. Burtenshaw was elected as the new mayor of Idaho Falls,

The following are results from runoff races in east Idaho on Dec. 2, 2025. The candidates here did not receive the required majority of the votes in the general election in November. Idaho Falls Mayor Lisa Burtenshaw,

Lisa Burtenshaws won the runoff election for Idaho Falls mayor. The unofficial results show Burtenshaw received 6,435 votes, or 53.1%, of the votes over Jeff Alldridge 5,663 votes, or 46.8%. In the Idaho Falls City Council race for Seat 2,

Runoff elections are happening in Idaho Falls and Pocatello on Tuesday, Dec. 2, and polling locations are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. These runoff elections are occurring because no candidate in these races received more than 50% of the vote in the general election on Nov.

After the November elections, Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon celebrated the “strong conservative campaigns” she witnessed in Caldwell, Post Falls and Pocatello. Those were all nonpartisan races, she acknowledged — but that label is a “farce,” she wrote in a Nov. 6 post.

Local voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide who will lead the Gate City for the next four years, as Greg Cates and Mark Dahlquist face

McGrane was in Kootenai County to watch the canvassing of votes. He said the voting tallies were accurate and there is strong voter confidence in the integrity of Idaho elections. “Idaho is in a really good place,

North Idaho’s largest Republican Party may have lost every race it contested in Coeur d’Alene in this year’s municipal election, but that doesn’t mean Republicans aren’t still in charge.

That elections for mayor and city council are “nonpartisan” is unambiguous Idaho law. Current partisan efforts to force such offices under their umbrella are a pure power grab.