← 1982 November 4, 1986 193,429 189,794 | November 4, 1986 1990 → 49.93% 48.99% | |
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The 1986 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1986 to elect the governor of the state of Idaho. Cecil D. Andrus, a former Democratic governor, was elected defeating the Republican Lieutenant Governor David H. Leroy.
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Nominations
Republican Lieutenant Governor David Leroy announced his candidacy for governor 14 months before the election in the autumn of 1985. Leroy was a former Ada County prosecutor and attorney general of Idaho.
Democrat former governor Cecil Andrus declared his bid for governor 6 months later in March 1986. Andrus was a former governor of Idaho between 1970 and 1977 and then United States Secretary of the Interior until 1981.
Neither Andrus or Leroy faced any opposition for the Democrat and Republican nominations for governor.
Campaign
As election day neared polls showed Democrat Andrus ahead in of the Republican Leroy.