Over $47,000 in super PAC money flooded a local mayoral runoff election and supported one candidate. What does that mean
IDAHO FALLS — Between the general election and the runoff election for the new Idaho Falls mayor — 28 days — the winning candidate’s campaign was supported with tens of thousands of dollars in Political Action Committee (PAC) money. The losing candidate was supported by none.
How much did these PACs affect the election results?
Idaho Falls Mayor-elect Lisa Burtenshaw won Tuesday’s runoff election against runner-up Jeff Alldridge by 772 votes, a decent margin in an election where only 12,098 people showed up to vote out of the 32,204 registered voters in Idaho Falls.
Alldridge was the winning candidate in the general election, earning 5,599 votes, which was 62 votes more than Burtenshaw, who received 5,537 votes at that time. Still, neither candidate achieved over 50% of the vote required to win the election.
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