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ID Lt. Governor-R Primary
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> United States > Idaho > Lieutenant Governor
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| Office | Lieutenant Governor |
| Honorific | Lieutenant Governor - Abbr: Lt. Gov. |
| Type | Republican Primary Election |
| Filing Deadline | March 01, 1986 - 11:55pm Central |
| Polls Open | May 27, 1986 - 08:00am Central |
| Polls Close | May 27, 1986 - 08:00pm Central |
| Term Start | January 03, 1987 - 12:00pm |
| Term End | January 03, 1991 - 12:00pm |
| Contributor | ev |
| Last Modified | Paul 🇺🇦 July 31, 2019 02:56am |
| Data Sources | Idaho Secretary of State |
| Description |
Overview of race from [Link]
When the lieutenant governor's seat opened up in 1986, Otter pondered a political comeback. The state was in an economic slump, and Otter had firsthand knowledge of how to get companies to trade with Idaho and provide jobs. His new campaign had less to do with ideology than with the nuts and bolts of business and economics.
Otter was the party's choice and the overwhelming favorite for the nomination, but he was challenged by an eastern Idaho Republican organizer named Chuck Lempesis. A political nobody, Lempesis started to gain traction by slamming Otter's pornography bill vote, his statements on drug use, and his unwillingness to ban abortion. (Though a practicing Catholic, Otter has been reluctant to involve the state in that issue.) On primary day, Lempesis held Otter to 58 percent, robbing him of eastern Idaho and the Mormon vote. On election day, Otter barely won--he was almost felled, again, by weak support in the east.
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