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,

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 thousands of votes, a candidate in Idaho Falls and a candidate in Pocatello found success Tuesday night, with many voters deciding to hit the polls in a second go-around runoff election. In November,

Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to make their final choice in the run-off election for Idaho Falls Mayor and City Council Seat 2. As the hard-fought campaign winds up, Local News 8 interviewed both candidates for mayor the day before the run-off to learn how race dynamics have changed in the past month.

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,

As the runoff election was underway, the mayors of Idaho Falls and Ammon spoke at the Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday about their time in office and their outlook for each city as it prepares for new leadership.

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

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.

Key to ensuring trustworthy elections, voter registration lists (“voter rolls”) have received heightened scrutiny from both federal and state lawmakers in recent years. Citizenship verification for voters was a particularly high priority for the Trump administration,