Pocatello City Council ends mayoral runoff elections
POCATELLO – A city in southeastern Idaho will no longer have runoff elections if a mayoral candidate does not receive a majority of the vote.
At the Pocatello City Council meeting last week, the governing body addressed a motion to amend Pocatello’s municipal code to “eliminate the majority requirement and runoff process for the office of mayor,” the agenda reads. The council voted unanimously in favor of the motion, ending the practice of mayoral runoff elections.
Rick Cheatum, an outgoing council member and member of the Idaho House of Representatives, was the first councilman to advocate for ending the runoff process.
“All other local and state races, except for those that have primaries, are decided in the first vote. … They come to the November election and the winner takes all,” Cheatum said.
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