Idaho Senate District 26

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Ron Taylor, a Democrat, is the sitting Idaho state senator for District 26, per the Idaho Senate's official roster. He worked as a firefighter and paramedic with Wood River Fire & Rescue for nearly 30 years, rising to captain, and has also worked as a landscaper, in hotel maintenance, as a baker and as a chef, per his campaign site. Taylor has received the President's Volunteer Service Award and volunteers with the Crisis Hotline, Mountain Humane, the Wood River Trails Coalition and the Wood River Land Trust, per his campaign site. He moved to Idaho in 1982 and lives in Hailey, per his campaign site.

Shaila has interned in the Idaho Legislature for four years and currently works for the Carey airport, and she serves on a local charter school board, per the Idaho Mountain Express. No campaign website was found as of September 18, 2026.

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Bryan Hyde, a Republican candidate for Idaho Senate District 26, is a longtime Southern Idaho resident who grew up in Twin Falls and now lives in Jerome, per his campaign site. He graduated from the College of Southern Idaho and has spent four decades in media as a talk radio host, program director, executive producer and advertising executive, also working as a public speaker, educator, columnist and freelance writer, per his campaign site. Hyde founded the company With One Voice LLC, per his campaign site.