Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter is an American businessman and politician who served as the 32nd governor of Idaho from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he was elected in 2006,and reelected in 2010,and 2014. Otter served as lieutenant governor from 1987 to 2001 and in U.S. Congress from the first district from 2001 to 2007.
Philip Eugene Batt is an American politician who served as the 29th governor of Idaho from 1995 to 1999. Batt had previously served as the 35th lieutenant governor of Idaho,Chair of the Idaho Republican Party,and as a member of the Idaho Legislature. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Richard Keith Armey is an American economist and politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Texas's 26th congressional district (1985–2003) and House Majority Leader (1995–2003). He was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s,in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades. Armey was one of the chief authors of the Contract with America. Armey is also an author and former economics professor. After his retirement from Congress,he has worked as a consultant,advisor,and lobbyist.
George Vernon Hansen was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 14 years,representing Idaho's 2nd district from 1965 to 1969 and again from 1975 to 1985.
James Elroy Risch is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party,he served as lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2003 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2009,and as governor of Idaho from 2006 to 2007.
The Idaho Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Idaho.
William Thomas Sali is an American lawyer and politician who served as a congressman from Idaho. A Republican,he served a single term in the United States House of Representatives,representing Idaho's 1st congressional district from 2007 to 2009. Sali previously served in the Idaho Legislature as a member of the House.
Russell Mark Fulcher is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he represented the 21st district in the Idaho Senate from 2005 to 2012 and the 22nd district from 2012 until 2014.
Raúl Rafael Labrador is an American lawyer and politician who was the chair of the Idaho Republican Party. He previously served as a U.S. representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2019. He also represented the 14B district in the Idaho House of Representatives from 2006 to 2010. Labrador opted not to seek another term in Congress to run for governor of Idaho in the 2018 election;he lost the Republican primary to Idaho Lieutenant Governor Brad Little.
Kathleen Sims was an American politician. She served as a Republican Idaho State Representative for District 4 in the B seat for 2010 to 2016. She was previously appointed as the Idaho State Senator for District 4 to fill the vacancy when Jack Riggs resigned to serve as lieutenant governor;Sims served from 2000 until 2002.
Add The Words,Idaho is an LGBTQ2A activist group and political action committee (PAC) in the United States,extant since 2010,which advocates adding the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the state's human rights act;this group grew out of several others which had been advocating the same. After ten years,however,Add The Words activist have been unable to achieve even one state-wide protection for LGBTQ2A Idahoans. An associated all-volunteer direct action group,Add The 4 Words Idaho,under the leadership of former state senator Nicole LeFavour,undertook a series of civil disobedience protests beginning on February 3,2014 at the Statehouse.
The 2016 Idaho Democratic presidential caucuses took place on March 22 in the U.S. state of Idaho as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
The 2018 Idaho gubernatorial election took place on November 6 to elect the next governor of Idaho. Incumbent Republican Governor Butch Otter chose not to run for a fourth term,and the state's primaries were held on May 15.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,to elect the two U.S. representatives from the U.S. state of Idaho;one from each of the state's two congressional districts. Primaries were held on May 15,2018. The elections and primaries coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Idaho on November 6,2018. All of Idaho's executive officers were up for election as well as both of Idaho's two seats in the United States House of Representatives.
Barry Peterson is a former Idaho Republican Party chairman and hardware store owner in Mountain Home.
Norm Semanko is a former Idaho Republican Party chairman and currently practices law at Moffatt Thomas.
John Thomas Ahlquist III is a business owner,commercial real-estate developer,and retired physician from Idaho. He is the CEO of the development firm,Ball Ventures Ahlquist (BVA). Prior to that,he was the COO of the Gardner Company where he helped develop projects like the Eighth &Main building and City Center Plaza in downtown Boise. He was a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for Governor of Idaho in the 2018 Idaho gubernatorial election.
Jonathan Parker is an American politician. He is a former Idaho Republican Party Chairman.
The 2018 election for Lieutenant Governor of Idaho took place on May 15,2018. The primary election selected the candidates from each party to run in the November 6,2018 general election for lieutenant governor of Idaho. Lieutenant governors serve a four-year term or terms. In 2018,the incumbent lieutenant governor,Brad Little,won the Republican nomination for governor and declined to run for re-election in order to run for governor.
