Early in-person voting ended Friday in Bannock, Bonneville and Bingham counties, with more than 18,183 ballots cast across the three Idaho counties. The combined total was about 78 percent higher than the 10,229 early in-person votes recorded in 2022.
Officials said Proposition 1 is driving much of the interest, while contested races also appear on the ballot. The Pocatello-Chubbuck School District 25 supplemental levy is among the measures before Bannock County voters.
County totals
Bannock County recorded 8,491 early walk-in voters after offering three weeks of early voting, from Oct. 13 through Friday. The county received 2,655 absentee ballots, bringing the number of voters who had cast ballots to 11,146, or 24 percent of its 46,609 registered voters.
Bannock County recorded 5,122 early walk-in voters in 2022. Its combined early-voting total that year was 8,079, compared with 8,068 in 2018. The county recorded 22,177 early voters during the 2020 presidential election.
Bonneville County reported 7,698 early in-person voters after beginning early voting Oct. 19. The county had received 5,698 absentee ballots, for a combined early-voting and absentee total of 13,396. That compares with about 9,000 combined ballots roughly four years ago.
Bingham County reported 1,994 early voters as of Friday afternoon, compared with 966 in 2022. The county received 1,921 absentee ballots after sending out roughly 2,340. In all of 2022, Bingham County received 1,588 absentee ballots.
Across the three counties, 10,274 absentee ballots had been received, compared with 9,405 during all of 2022.
Election Day information
Polls will be open Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Absentee ballots must reach county elections offices by 8 p.m. that day.
Voters can locate their polling place through voteidaho.gov.