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United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho, 2024
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Idaho were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected two candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's two U.S. House districts. The primary was May 21, 2024. The filing deadline was March 15, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Idaho -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Republican Party | 2 | 2 | |
| Total | 2 | 2 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Russ Fulcher (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Kaylee Peterson (Democratic Party)
- Brendan Gomez (Constitution Party)
- Matt Loesby (Libertarian Party)
- David Bot (Independent) (Write-in)
- Margot Dupre (Independent) (Write-in)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Russ Fulcher (Incumbent) ✔
Minor Party primary candidates
Constitution Party
Libertarian Party
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 2
General election candidates
- Michael K. Simpson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- David Roth (Democratic Party)
- Idaho Law (Constitution Party)
- Todd Corsetti (Libertarian Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Michael K. Simpson (Incumbent) ✔
- Scott Cleveland
- Sean Higgins
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Minor Party primary candidates
Constitution Party
Libertarian Party
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Idaho
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Idaho in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Idaho, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Idaho | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | 500[5] | $300.00 | 3/15/2024 | Source |
| Idaho | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 500[6] | $300.00 | 8/30/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Idaho.
| Idaho U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25.0% | 1 | 50.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25.0% | 1 | 50.0% | ||||
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | 2 | 100.0% | ||||
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | 2 | 100.0% | ||||
| 2014 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | 2 | 100.0% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Idaho in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 7, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Six candidates ran for Idaho’s two U.S. House districts, including two Democrats and four Republicans. That’s three candidates per district, less than in the previous three election cycles. There were four candidates per district in 2022, 3.5 candidates per district in 2020, and 6.5 in 2018.
The total number of candidates that ran for the U.S. House in 2024 is also lower than any other year this decade.
No seats were open in 2024, meaning all incumbents ran for re-election. There was one House seat open in 2018, the only election cycle this decade in which a House seat was open.
Four candidates—one Democrat and three Republicans—ran for the 2nd Congressional District, the most candidates that ran for a seat in 2024.
One primary—the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary—was contested in 2024. One primary was contested in 2022 and three primaries were contested in 2020.
Rep. Michael K. Simpson (R-2nd) was the only incumbent in a contested primary in 2024.
Candidates filed to run in the Democratic and Republican primaries in both districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Idaho, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Idaho's 1st | Russ Fulcher |  Republican |
R+22 |
| Idaho's 2nd | Mike Simpson | Republican |
R+14 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Idaho[7] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
|
Donald Trump
| ||
| Idaho's 1st | 29.5% | 67.7% | ||
| Idaho's 2nd | 36.9% | 59.8% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Alabama's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Idaho | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Idaho's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Idaho, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Brad Little
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| Lieutenant Governor | Scott Bedke
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| Secretary of State | Phil McGrane
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| Attorney General | Raúl Labrador
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State legislature
Idaho State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 7 | |
| Republican Party | 28 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 35 | |
Idaho House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 11 | |
| Republican Party | 59 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 70 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Idaho Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas • Thirty years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.
- ↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
