Local voters return GOP incumbents, approve school levies and water bonds

Southeast Idaho voters returned Republican incumbents to every contested legislative seat on the Nov. 3 ballot, approved two school levies and two city water bonds, and rejected a permanent levy for the Bear Lake Fire District.

Republican incumbents won all three Legislative District 35 races. The district covers all of Bear Lake and Caribou counties, eastern Bonneville County, part of eastern Bannock County and part of Teton County.

Sen. Mark Harris, R-Soda Springs, received 15,042 votes, or 70 percent, to Democrat Marty Rotz Kilhefner’s 6,447, or 30 percent…

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