Balukoff, a businessman and President of the Boise School District Board of Trustees[4] comfortably defeated Terry Kerr, a former Republican candidate for local office,[3] for the Democratic nomination.
[7] Former state senator and candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2006 Bert Marley was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
[10] Polling Incumbent Republican attorney general Lawrence Wasden ran for re-election to a fourth term in office.
[15] Polling Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Ben Ysursa did not run for re-election to a fourth term in office.
[22] Polling Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Ron Crane is running for re-election to a fifth term in office.
[15] Polling Incumbent Republican Controller Brandon D. Woolf, who was appointed to the position in 2012 after Donna Jones resigned after suffering injuries in a car crash, ran for election to a first full term.
[15] Incumbent Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna did not run for re-election to a third term in office.