Treasure Valley voters cast their ballots for their preferred candidates in numerous races on Tuesday, including Boise City Council Districts 2 and 6, the Garden City Mayoral race, and the Boise open-space levy. Two Boise City Council incumbents were seeking reelection, but each faced two challengers.

Many officials in North Idaho will stay in office after Tuesday’s election. Two exceptions are the mayors of Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls.

Boise residents voting for District 1, 4 and 6 council seats. Caldwell, Garden City and Nampa cast ballots for mayor.

Lisa Burtenshaw (left) and Jeff Alldridge (right) will see a runoff election. | Courtesy photos IDAHO FALLS — With a mayoral race split by only 62 votes, and a city council race differing by just 13%,

As the final tallies are processed from Idaho Falls' municipal election, the results show two City Council seats have been secured, while the highly contested Mayoral race and City Council Seat 2 are officially heading to a runoff election.

Voter turnout was mixed across Southeast Idaho on Tuesday, despite local counties having multiple contested municipal and school board races.

Rick Hogaboam, a familiar name in Nampa, emerged victorious in the four-candidate race. He served as Debbie Kling's chief of staff from 2020 to 2023.

Polling locations for both Ada County and Canyon County will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and anyone in line by 8 p.m. will still be able to vote.

A runoff election will take place on Dec. 2 for two races in Idaho Falls and one in Pocatello. Just a handful of Idaho cities have runoff elections, which are required if no candidate receives 50% of the vote plus one,

East Idaho cities are no strangers to run-off elections, and there is a reason for that. With the prospect of run-offs in our current local elections, Local News 8 spoke to Secretary of State Phil McGrane.