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.

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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.

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,