Idaho general election results
Votes by candidate and party, and by Yes/No on statewide ballot measures, for President, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Governor and the other statewide constitutional offices, cast at each Idaho general election, with county turnout.
Figures
Source: Idaho Secretary of State, General election canvass results, by county. Data period 2024. Published .
| Measure | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Registered voters2024 | 1,178,750 | 2024 |
| Ballots cast2024 | 917,469 | 2024 |
| Voter turnout2024 | 77.83% | 2024 |
Pages built on this dataset
Publisher
- Organization
- Idaho Secretary of State
- Publisher’s dataset
- General election canvass results, by county
- File or API used
- https://archive.sos.idaho.gov/elections/data/results/2024/raw_races_general.xlsx
- Methodology
- https://voteidaho.gov/on-the-ballots/
Coverage
- Geography
- State and counties
- Time coverage
- 1990-2024
- Update frequency
- Every general election (even years)
- Published
- November 2024
- Retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. Idaho state government work.
- Rows
- 24,761 observations, 1990-2024
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| President votes | Votes cast for President, by candidate and party. | count |
| U.S. Senate votes | Votes cast for U.S. Senate, by candidate and party. | count |
| U.S. House District 1 votes | Votes cast for U.S. House, Idaho's 1st District, by candidate and party. | count |
| U.S. House District 2 votes | Votes cast for U.S. House, Idaho's 2nd District, by candidate and party. | count |
| Governor votes | Votes cast for Governor, by candidate and party. | count |
| Lieutenant Governor votes | Votes cast for Lieutenant Governor, by candidate and party. | count |
| Secretary of State votes | Votes cast for Secretary of State, by candidate and party. | count |
| State Controller votes | Votes cast for State Controller (State Auditor before the office was renamed), by candidate and party. | count |
| State Treasurer votes | Votes cast for State Treasurer, by candidate and party. | count |
| Attorney General votes | Votes cast for Attorney General, by candidate and party. | count |
| Superintendent of Public Instruction votes | Votes cast for Superintendent of Public Instruction, by candidate and party. | count |
| Ballot measure votes | Votes cast Yes or No on a statewide constitutional amendment, initiative, referendum or advisory question. | count |
| Registered voters | Total registered voters as of the general election. | people |
| Ballots cast | Total ballots cast at the general election. | count |
| Voter turnout | Ballots cast as a share of registered voters at the general election. | percent |
Caveats
- General election only: primary election results are not included.
- Idaho elects a President only in presidential years, a U.S. Senator only in the year each of its two Senate seats is up, and a Governor and the other statewide constitutional offices only in gubernatorial years; a metric with no observation for a year is not a gap, that office simply was not on that year's general election ballot.
- State legislative races, county races, and judicial races (Idaho's Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and district judge elections are nonpartisan) are outside this dataset's scope of federal and statewide offices.
- The office now called State Controller was named State Auditor before Idaho's voters approved the rename; this dataset uses one metric for both.
- Idaho's two U.S. House districts have been redrawn after each decennial census (2001, 2011 and 2021); which counties sit in District 1 or District 2 has changed across this dataset's 1990-2024 span, so a district's results are not a consistent set of counties over time.
- A candidate's county figure is omitted, not zero, where the source prints a blank or a dash for that county (a write-in candidate who received no county-clerk-certified votes there, for instance); a zero means the source printed a zero.
- A candidate's party is stored exactly as the Secretary of State's canvass workbook prints it for that year, which is sometimes a full word, sometimes an abbreviation, and occasionally a candidate's own filed write-in party label; it is not standardized across years.
- State totals are the canvass workbook's own printed state total row, not a sum of counties computed here, except for 2024, whose source file is precinct-level with no separate state-total row; that year's state figures are this puller's own sum of the county figures the same file gives.
- A small number of 2008 write-in presidential and U.S. Senate candidates, printed on a supplementary sheet with a nonstandard layout, are not captured; write-in candidates are a small share of the total vote.
- In two small counties, the canvass workbook's own vote count and its own ballots-cast count for the same election disagree with each other: 1996 Caribou County's presidential candidates sum to 151 more votes than its reported ballots cast, and 2016 Clark County's to 37 more. Both figures are printed as-is; neither is corrected here.
- 2022 general election turnout comes from a table on voteidaho.gov's own election-results page rather than the Secretary of State's canvass workbook, which unlike every other year here does not carry a county voting-statistics sheet.
- Ballot measure names are the Secretary of State's own printed title for each measure (a joint resolution number, an initiative or proposition number, or an advisory question), which is not always the same as its official ballot title.
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “General election canvass results, by county”, compiled from Idaho Secretary of State, General election canvass results, by county. Retrieved September 25, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/idaho-sos-elections-general/.
Cite Idaho Secretary of State directly for the figures themselves.
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