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Lisa Sanchez
Image of Lisa Sanchez
Prior offices
Boise City Council Seat 2 (Historical)

Boise City Council Seat 3

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 4, 2025

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Lisa Sanchez was a member of the Boise City Council in Idaho, representing Seat 3. She assumed office on January 11, 2022. She left office on January 13, 2023.

Sanchez ran for election to the Boise City Council to represent Seat 6 in Idaho. She lost in the general election on November 4, 2025.

Biography

Lisa Sanchez lives in Boise, Idaho.[1] Her career experience includes working as a bilingual paralegal helping low-income victims of domestic violence and as a civil rights investigator for the Idaho Human Rights Commission. She was elected to serve on the Boise City Council in 2017.[2]

Elections

2025

See also: City elections in Boise, Idaho (2025)

General election

General election for Boise City Council Seat 6

Incumbent Jimmy Hallyburton defeated Lynn Bradescu and Lisa Sanchez in the general election for Boise City Council Seat 6 on November 4, 2025.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jimmy Hallyburton
Jimmy Hallyburton (Nonpartisan)
 
70.7
 
8,482
Image of Lynn Bradescu
Lynn Bradescu (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
22.1
 
2,651
Image of Lisa Sanchez
Lisa Sanchez (Nonpartisan)
 
7.2
 
865

Total votes: 11,998
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Endorsements

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2021

See also: City elections in Boise, Idaho (2021)

General election

General election for Boise City Council Seat 3

Incumbent Lisa Sanchez defeated Greg MacMillan, Maria Santa Cruz-Cernik, and Nicholas Domeny in the general election for Boise City Council Seat 3 on November 2, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Lisa Sanchez
Lisa Sanchez (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
57.2
 
5,758
Greg MacMillan (Nonpartisan)
 
37.0
 
3,722
Maria Santa Cruz-Cernik (Nonpartisan)
 
3.8
 
383
Nicholas Domeny (Nonpartisan)
 
2.0
 
199

Total votes: 10,062
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2017

See also: Municipal elections in Boise, Idaho (2017)

The city of Boise, Idaho, held elections for city council on November 7, 2017. Three of the six seats on the city council were up for election. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was September 8, 2017.[3] Lisa Sanchez defeated Frank Walker, Logan Kimball, Rachel Misnick, and Paul Fortin in the Boise City Council Seat 2 general election.[4]

Boise City Council, Seat 2 General Election, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Lisa Sanchez 44.14% 10,396
Frank Walker 25.38% 5,979
Logan Kimball 18.46% 4,347
Rachel Misnick 7.60% 1,791
Paul Fortin 4.42% 1,041
Total Votes 23,554
Source: Ada County Clerk's Office, "November 2017 Consolidated Election Official Results," November 14, 2017

Campaign themes

2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2021

Candidate Connection

Lisa Sanchez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sanchez's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I love Boise. It has been my home for thirty years, and I wouldn’t live anywhere else. Our quality of life, our public lands, and the people who choose to live here are among many of the facets that make Boise unique. Not everyone shares the same quality of life, or access to the many things that make Boise great. My line of work puts me in direct contact with people who are struggling, people who feel left out, and people who are acutely affected by our city’s growing pains.

My family taught me how to work with a tight budget, and how to keep working even though you feel exhausted. My family also showed me the importance of helping others in the community, because as hard as we had it, we knew there were others who had it worse. I learned that being a PROUD community means being there for each other, no matter what.

In many ways, my upbringing and work experience have been preparing me to serve in this office for just about my whole life: Through watching my mother sacrifice her time with her own children in service of the greater good; In my work as a fair housing tester to enforce the Fair Housing Act; In my work as the only Spanish-speaking civil rights investigator for the Idaho Human Rights Commission; In my work with the Girl Scouts to increase services to Native American and Latino communities; and in my current work, helping to connect survivors of domestic violence and child abuse with volunteer lawyers. I know how to help.
As a city, we must balance the needs of renters with property owners. We need to address access to affordable and safe housing and those that are in crisis now. I know first hand the urgency of the rising housing market. I’m a renter and a single person. I often worry that the market will price me out of the neighborhood and away from the support system that I have built over the past decade. This reflects the experience of the growing number of single households.

We need to ensure that we continue to implement our diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plan. That means that at the center of our conversations at the city, we are ensuring that we are talking with those that are most vulnerable and including them in the solution generation for issues like transportation, land use, and planning and zoning.

Local transparency is important to me. That is why I share our council meetings, notes, and other interactions with the whole city on social media. I want to make sure that we are pulling back the curtain so that folks can see inside and learn what it looks like to engage in public service in real time. When we know better, we do better.

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