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 Idaho Sunshine Report currently reflects financial filings up until the date this article was published. More filings are expected to be reported by the Dec. 10, 2025, deadline, potentially increasing the PAC money totals.

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.

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.

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.

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

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,

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.

Idaho Falls has chosen a new mayor in Lisa Burtenshaw, who defeated Jeff Alldridge in a runoff election Tuesday.

Canyon County has audited the 2024 and 2025 elections and worked with the Idaho State Police on other cases, according to Clerk Rick Hogaboam. In 2025, Hogaboam said, he has referred 10 cases to the Canyon County Prosecutor and Sheriff's Office, none of which involved noncitizens voting.