BOISE, Idaho — The State of Idaho Board of Canvassers, made up of Secretary of State Phil McGrane, Controller Brandon Woolf and Treasurer Julie Ellsworth met at the Capitol on Tuesday to certify the results of 2024 General Election. During the meeting, the group canvassed and reviewed the election results for the federal, state and district offices.
Throughout the meeting, board members discussed what went well in this election and the results. McGrane spoke about the elections conference coming up in January and successful practices election offices ran in this election. McGrane said the entire canvass report was over 350 pages of data down to the precinct level. The data within the report is publicly accessible on voteidaho.gov.
The 2024 General Post-Election Audit confirmed the reliability of the voting systems across eight audited counties in Idaho. The audit randomly selected eight counties and chose Bear Lake, Bingham, Clearwater, Custer, Elmore, Jerome, Latah, and Minidoka counties. The audit identified minor discrepancies in the hand counts that were attributed to human error and procedural issues. The audit report is also available on voteidaho.gov.
"We had over 917,000 ballots cast in this election, which I can't say officially yet but unofficially makes it the largest election in Idaho's history," said Gabe Osterhout, data visualization specialist for the Idaho secretary of state. "We had 121,000 Election Day registrations and if you factor those into the total registration, we are at about 78% turnout. The 78% is slightly lower than [the 2020 election]. 2020 was a very unique election when we peaked over 80% turnout."
At the end of the canvass, the board unanimously agreed to certify the results of the election. The certification kicks off the electoral college process of sending the state's election results to Washington, D.C. The result also certifies President-elect Donald Trump as the official candidate for the State of Idaho. The meeting adjourned with a thanks from McGrane directed to all of the poll workers for their hard work.