Election Update
Find the results of the elections in Caribou County on a print sheet inside this paper! Due to our production schedule, which requires us to send the print contents of the paper to the printer on Tuesday afternoon, we are not able to include the official results of the 2025 municipal elections in the main, “fixed” sections of the paper. However, we do want to make sure that those results are available as soon as possible to readers. There are a variety of ways to locate election returns, the most universal being the website https://results.voteidaho.gov/results/public/caribou-county-id/elections/nov2025, which tracks election results for the county. The time between the closing of the polls and the results is variable, of course, but given that this is an off-year municipal election the results should be widely available on Wednesday morning. While this is being written ahead of time, barring any unforeseen calamities this paper should contain a print sheet with the results of the mayoral elections in Bancroft, Grace, and Soda Springs, as well as the city council and special district/levy results. The changes resulting from any and all of those elections will be significant on the county as a whole, and we will bring you analysis of the potential impacts as the picture takes clearer shape. In past off-year elections, the number of total voters out of the possible registered number has been fairly low, with around 30 percent or so on average. This is partly due to the number of residences which are in the county, but not within city limits for the municipal elections. The fact that all three major towns in the county are holding mayoral elections is predicted to increase the percentage of voters a bit, but we should know by Wednesday morning.
Another story related to this election is that it represents an unofficial kickoff to the county’s use of the Event Center for civic events. The Event Center meeting area was used during construction for some of the events held during the Caribou County Fair this summer, and while the edifice was not completed at the time the space served the purposes of the county quite well for fair week. By Wednesday afternoon we should have a decent sense of the how the same space functioned for an official, governmental function of the type the Event Center was partially greenlit to accommodate. In addition to functions like voting and emergency sheltering, the building will house the county’s Extension Office and EMS facilities, as well as rentable space for public and private events.
As of Tuesday morning, there are no reports of major problems or issues with either the voting across the county itself or the Event Center location.
