Via ShoBan News, May 30, 2025

Russell D. Haskett, Ladd R. Edmo (incumbent), Nathan Small and Louise S. Dixey were the top vote getters in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Fort Hall Business Council General Election May 30, 2025. The results are unofficial until the Tribal Election Board certifies them and the Fort Hall Business Council. The advisory vote regarding whether or not the Tribes should contract the remaining Indian Health Service programs went down to defeat with 313 no votes and 241 yes votes. Unless there are any challenges, the council members will be sworn into office June 10, 2025.

Images from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes General Election ballot counting May 30, 2025 at the Tribal Business Center Council Chambers. Election clerks in each reservation district assisted in sorting and inserting the ballots into the vote counting machine. (Joseph Wadsworth photos)