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Governor of Idaho, first elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022.

His campaign says he is committed to leading so Idahoans can thrive, so children and grandchildren choose to stay, and so people who have left choose to come back. The site calls that experienced leadership the state can trust.

• His campaign says he cut or simplified 95 percent of Idaho regulations and calls Idaho the least regulated state.
• His campaign says teacher pay rose, literacy funding increased five-fold, and school-facility spending also worked as property-tax relief, along with new school-choice options and the Idaho LAUNCH program.
• His campaign says he and the Legislature delivered tax relief with a balanced budget and a AAA credit rating, and that Idaho sent more missions to the border than any other state through an effort he calls Operation No Return.

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Candidate for governor of Idaho.

Her issues page says economic growth has to work for everyday Idahoans, not billionaires, and that a strong economy depends on education and a solid workforce. She says health care must be affordable and that small businesses need a stable tax structure and a living wage to compete.

• She says growth should rest on small business, a stable tax structure, a living wage, and health care that is affordable.
• She says she would repeal the school-voucher program, raise teacher pay, and fund rural districts, pre-K, and full-day kindergarten.
• She says public lands must stay public and open for recreation, hunting, and fishing, and that women, not the state, should make family-planning decisions.

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Former Idaho Supreme Court justice running for governor as an independent.

He is a lifelong Idahoan raised in Grangeville who served as a Latah County district judge and then on the Idaho Supreme Court, a judicial career he puts at 26 years. He says he helped pioneer drug and treatment courts and is running because he is frustrated with Idaho politics and is not a member of a party.

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Constitution Party candidate for governor; he says Pro-Life is his only name.

He says he ran for lieutenant governor in 2022 and is running for governor in 2026. The site, which he shares with his wife's legislative campaign, says they are organic farmers and that he will not compromise to get elected.

• He says legal personhood begins when sperm meets egg, that abortion is murder, and that as governor he would keep abortion facilities closed and block abortifacient drugs from being sold or shipped into Idaho.
• He says he would also bar transgender medical treatment at any age and would veto bills that expand government.
• He says education, welfare, health, and recreation should be phased out of government and returned to faith communities.

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Libertarian nominee for governor and a former city council member.

He says he won the Libertarian nomination for governor in the May 19, 2026 primary, after ten years on his local city council and 30 years as an Idaho property and business owner. He says his campaign is not endorsed by the Libertarian Party of Idaho or the national party.

• He says he would invert Idaho government so counties set their own rules, fund their own social programs, and collect taxes, with state revenue sharing running from the county upward.
• He says he opposes abortion, open borders, and legalizing narcotic drugs, and he supports large cuts to state agencies and state taxes.
• He says he opposes public benefits for any immigrant, whether here legally or not.

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Lieutenant governor, cattle rancher, and former Speaker of the Idaho House.

He says his family ranching in the Oakley Basin goes back to the 1870s. He was born in Twin Falls, graduated from Oakley High School, and started in public service on the Oakley City Council.

• He says he has an A+ rating from the NRA and a 100 percent pro-life record with Idaho Chooses Life.
• He says he led a fight to keep critical race theory out of Idaho schools.
• He says he was named legislator of the year by the Fraternal Order of Police and will oppose defunding the police, work to secure the border, and keep families safe.

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Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, and an entrepreneur.

He describes himself as a moderate Democrat, a father, and a brain-health advocate who wants government in the style of the late Governor Cecil Andrus. He says he came to Idaho after marrying Lesley, who is from Idaho Falls, and that they are raising two boys in the Treasure Valley.

• He says taxes should stay low, but that roads, schools, and senior care cannot be met by cuts alone.
• He says he will fight House Bill 328, which he says adds Medicaid work rules, shifts care to profit-driven companies, and lets officials cut benefits overnight.
• He says he will fully fund public schools, repeal the voucher program, and connect career training to jobs that keep young people in Idaho.

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U.S. senator from Idaho seeking another term.

He is a small-business owner, a farmer and beef producer, and a former county prosecuting attorney. He says that as governor he cut property taxes by 20 percent, and that he is a former chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee.

• He says he led the Senate fight against selling some of Idaho's public lands and will keep defending multiple use, including hunting, logging, and grazing.
• He says he will keep cutting taxes and red tape for small businesses and farms, and he cites a 100 percent approval rating from the American Farm Bureau.
• He says he supports border enforcement, Second Amendment rights, and returning natural-resource decisions to state and local leaders.

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Candidate for the U.S. Senate and an Army veteran.

He says he served as an Army officer, was trained on weapons, and deployed to the Persian Gulf. He describes himself as a capitalist who wants an economy that rewards work and strengthens Idaho's middle class.

• He says he will seek a constitutional amendment limiting senators to two terms and House members to three, ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, and close tax loopholes he says the wealthy and corporations use.
• He says he will protect health-insurance tax credits, require upfront medical prices, and build on a housing bill that limits large investors from buying single-family homes.
• He says he will oppose selling Idaho public lands, vote against new federal bans on firearms or magazines, and staff Customs and Border Protection while updating legal visas for farm work.

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Candidate for the U.S. Senate.

She says she was born in the Mountain West and has watched families work hard and still struggle under broken systems. Her campaign says she is running for Idahoans rather than for a party or for special interests.

• She says she will curb corporate landlords and reopen paths to homeownership and homesteading.
• She says personal data should be treated as private property, with a ban on exploitative surveillance by companies and government.
• She says the economy should favor small businesses, cooperatives, and local supply chains, and she wants the food supply shifted from global toward local, with regenerative farming and rural infrastructure.

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Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate.

His campaign says he grew up in a suburb south of Denver, worked in video game development, and bought a house in Idaho's Treasure Valley in 2020. He says he splits his time between his church, developing a video game, hiking in the Rockies, and work for the Libertarian Party of Idaho.

• He says the border should be closed except to people invited by citizen landowners who take financial responsibility for them, that uninvited immigrants should be deported, and that he would end birthright citizenship.
• He says he would repeal minimum-wage laws and the Affordable Care Act, end the Federal Reserve, and cut federal budgets rather than only slow their growth.
• He says no U.S. troops should be sent outside the country unless Congress declares war, that the government should send no money or weapons abroad, and that he would abolish the VA and pay veterans directly for care.

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Idaho attorney general.

The campaign site identifies him as Attorney General Raúl Labrador and says the campaign is about protecting Idaho families. It invites supporters to watch an ad titled as a fight for Idaho.

• The site's headline says he is protecting Idaho families.
• It highlights his defense of women's sports at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Attorney running for attorney general.

She says she never planned to run, and that she has practiced at a large New York firm, at Micron Technology, and for clients in Idaho. She says earlier attorneys general such as Jim Jones, Larry EchoHawk, and Lawrence Wasden kept the office on the law rather than on politics.

• She says she will give state agencies and the Land Board legal advice based on the law, and hire for ethics and skill rather than ideology.
• She says she will issue prompt opinions for legislators and state officials and follow the statute even when that is politically inconvenient.
• She says she will oppose selling federal public lands in Idaho or closing them to the public.

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Incumbent who says he has overseen Idaho elections and modernized services for voters and businesses.

He says that since taking office he has worked to strengthen elections, expand transparency, and modernize services for voters and businesses. He says he oversaw the largest election in Idaho history.

• He says he strengthened safeguards that keep Idaho elections secure, transparent, and accessible.
• He says he trained as a wildland firefighter and works with timber, mining, agriculture, and recreation on public-land challenges.
• He says he will protect faith, family, personal responsibility, and limited government.

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Member of Congress from Idaho

The campaign says Russ Fulcher has voted to fund a border wall, toured the border, and backed a balanced-budget amendment and a one-subject-at-a-time bill. It presents him as a conservative delivering on issues important to Idaho.

• He supports full enforcement of immigration law and an orderly legal process, and he opposes illegal immigration.
• He opposes breaching the lower four Snake River dams, which he says supply hydropower, irrigation, and a path for Idaho wheat to market.
• He says he is pro-life, will defend the Second Amendment, and wants local communities to have more say over Idaho's forests, minerals, and energy.

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Working mother and organizer running for Idaho's 1st District.

Her campaign says she is a 36-year-old working mother and a sixth-generation Idahoan. She says she has spent nearly five years, across three election cycles, organizing in a district she describes as about 500 miles long.

• She says she takes no corporate PAC money, would ban stock trades by members of Congress and their families, and supports term limits of six House terms and two Senate terms.
• She says she would cut taxes on middle-class families and local businesses, raise the federal minimum wage, repeal right-to-work laws, and direct USDA help to family farms.
• She says Idaho's public lands are not for sale, and she would fund the Forest Service, local timber, and wildfire work, and move health coverage to a universal single-payer system.

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U.S. representative for Idaho's 2nd District

The campaign says Mike Simpson is serving his eleventh term for Idaho's 2nd District. Born in Burley and raised in Blackfoot, he earned a dental degree and joined his family's dental practice before Congress. He sits on House Appropriations, including Energy and Water and Interior and Environment.

• He says securing the border is the country's top issue and that he is fighting to build a wall and add Border Patrol agents.
• He says promoting Idaho agriculture, including potatoes, sugar, and dairy, has been one of his top priorities.
• He says he wants the country to meet its obligations to veterans and to fully fund the VA.

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Lawyer and mediator running for Idaho's 2nd District.

Her campaign says she is a lawyer and mediator, not a career politician, and that she has spent more than twenty years helping businesses, schools, and communities work through conflict. She says she took an oath to uphold the Constitution when she was sworn in, and that her family chose Idaho and raised their children here.

• She says she would ban corporate purchases of single-family homes, expand the ROAD to Housing Act, and give counties the last word on data centers so they do not drain local water and power.
• She says she would keep public lands public, protect the Roadless Rule, and pass farm bills that give Idaho farmers and ranchers a stable plan.
• She says Congress should check executive power, ban stock trading by members and their immediate families, and ban dark money.

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