Kathryn Larson

Kathryn Larson: Independent Candidate for Idaho House, District 1 Seat B

Kathryn Larson of Sagle is running as an Independent for Idaho House District 1, Seat B, on the November 3, 2026 general election ballot. She faces Republican incumbent Cornel Rasor, who won the May 19, 2026 GOP primary with 9,314 votes (63.17%). Larson filed as an Independent and had no primary contest.

Background

Larson works as a business strategy consultant in the Inland Northwest. In a May 2026 interview with the Bonner County Daily Bee, she said she is running because North Idaho's neighborly spirit is slipping away, and that she asks three questions of any policy: “Who decides? Who pays? And who benefits?”

Where She Stands

On her campaign site, Larson calls for eliminating Idaho's sales tax on groceries, tying the Homeowner's Exemption to median home values, tax incentives for workforce housing, full funding of public schools, and protecting rural hospitals from reimbursement cuts.

She has been critical of the Idaho Freedom Foundation's legislative scorecard, the Idaho Freedom Index. In an August 2026 post on her campaign blog, she wrote that the scorecard system holds “legislators accountable to and measured by a 3-min timer … instead of you, the constituents.”

Sources

Ballot status and certified results from the Idaho Secretary of State. Reporting from the Bonner County Daily Bee. Positions from Larson's own campaign site and blog.