Idaho Voter Guide 2026

Brad Little is Idaho's incumbent governor and a Republican candidate for another term. His record and campaign emphasize tax cuts, conservative budgeting, education, workforce development, public safety, and Idaho's rapid-growth challenges.

Priorities: Keep taxes low and manage state growth · Support education and workforce development · Maintain conservative budgeting and public safety

Maxine Durand is a Democratic candidate for Idaho governor and former Twin Falls transportation director. Her campaign emphasizes practical state management, infrastructure, affordability, education, and giving Idaho voters a competitive statewide alternative.

Priorities: Improve infrastructure and basic services · Address affordability and growth pressures · Support public education and practical management

Jill Kirkham is a Democratic candidate for Idaho governor and small-business owner. Her campaign emphasizes change in state leadership, affordability, education, health care access, and local communities.

Priorities: Address affordability for Idaho families · Support public schools and health care access · Bring small-business and community experience to state government

Terri Pickens is a Democratic candidate for Idaho governor, attorney, and former statewide nominee for lieutenant governor. Her campaign emphasizes rights, public services, education, and accountable state leadership.

Priorities: Protect rights and accountable government · Support education and public services · Address Idaho's affordability and growth pressures

Mark Fitzpatrick is a Republican candidate for Idaho governor, former police officer, and business owner. His campaign emphasizes lower taxes, public safety, property rights, and a sharper conservative challenge to state leadership.

Priorities: Lower taxes and reduce state burdens · Strengthen public safety and property rights · Advance a conservative change message

Jim Risch is Idaho's incumbent U.S. senator and a Republican candidate for re-election in 2026. A former governor and longtime statewide official, he emphasizes conservative federal policy, national security, energy, public lands, and Idaho's agricultural and rural interests.

Priorities: Advance conservative federal policy · Support Idaho agriculture, energy, and public lands priorities · Strengthen national security and fiscal restraint

David Roth is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Idaho and the party's 2022 nominee for the seat. His campaign emphasizes health care, affordability, public lands, democratic accountability, and giving Idaho voters a statewide Democratic alternative.

Priorities: Expand health care and affordability · Protect public lands and Idaho communities · Offer a statewide Democratic alternative

Todd Achilles is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Idaho and a former state representative. His campaign emphasizes congressional reform, fiscal responsibility, economic fairness, and a less partisan approach to federal representation.

Priorities: Reform Congress and reduce partisan gridlock · Promote fiscal responsibility · Focus on working Idahoans and economic fairness

Raul Labrador is Idaho's incumbent attorney general and a Republican candidate for re-election. A former U.S. representative, his office has emphasized conservative litigation, state sovereignty, public safety, and legal challenges to federal policy.

Priorities: Challenge federal policy through state litigation · Support law enforcement and public safety · Advance conservative legal priorities

Lori Hickman is a Democratic candidate for Idaho attorney general and an attorney. Her campaign presents a people-first legal agenda focused on consumer protection, accountability, civil rights, and restoring public confidence in the attorney general's office.

Priorities: Protect consumers and Idaho families · Improve accountability in state legal work · Defend civil rights and public trust

Phil McGrane is Idaho's incumbent secretary of state and a Republican candidate for re-election. His office oversees elections, business filings, campaign finance, lobbying registration, trademarks, and other statewide administrative services.

Priorities: Administer secure and accessible elections · Modernize business and public-record services · Oversee campaign finance and lobbying transparency

Shawn Keenan is the Democratic candidate listed for Idaho secretary of state and the 2022 Democratic nominee for the office. His candidacy gives Idaho voters a Democratic alternative for the office that administers elections, business filings, and public records.

Priorities: Offer a Democratic alternative for election administration · Support accessible and transparent public services · Improve public confidence in state records and filings

Brandon Woolf is Idaho's incumbent state controller and a Republican candidate for re-election. The controller's office manages statewide accounting, financial reporting, payroll, and transparency tools for Idaho government.

Priorities: Maintain accurate state accounting and payroll · Improve financial transparency · Modernize controller office services

Rakesh Mohan is a Democratic candidate for Idaho state controller and a public-policy educator. His campaign emphasizes fiscal transparency, accountability, modern public finance systems, and practical oversight of state accounting.

Priorities: Improve fiscal transparency · Strengthen state accounting accountability · Modernize public finance systems

Julie Ellsworth is Idaho's incumbent state treasurer and a Republican candidate for re-election. The treasurer's office manages state cash, investments, bond-related work, college savings programs, and public-finance services.

Priorities: Safeguard state cash and investments · Support college savings and public finance programs · Maintain conservative treasury management

Kevin Jones is the Democratic candidate listed for Idaho state treasurer and a chartered financial analyst. His campaign offers a Democratic alternative for the office responsible for investments, cash management, and public-finance oversight.

Priorities: Bring financial-analysis experience to treasury oversight · Improve transparency in state investments · Protect public funds

Debbie Critchfield is Idaho's incumbent superintendent of public instruction and a Republican candidate for re-election. Her office oversees K-12 education policy implementation, school support, literacy, workforce readiness, and state education administration.

Priorities: Improve literacy and student outcomes · Support workforce readiness and career pathways · Oversee state education services and school support

Becky Sundin Mitchell is a Democratic candidate for Idaho superintendent of public instruction and an educator. Her campaign emphasizes classroom experience, teacher support, student services, and improving public education across Idaho communities.

Priorities: Support teachers and classrooms · Improve student services and outcomes · Strengthen public education across Idaho