Mike Moyle
District 10 House A
2024 Primary - won
2024 General Election - won
Mike Moyle: Idaho Republican Incumbent for House District 10A
Mike Moyle is a Republican member of the Idaho House of Representatives and the Speaker of the Idaho House, seeking a fifteenth term in District 10A, which covers the Star area in Ada County. Moyle lives in Star and is Idaho’s longest-serving current state legislator, having served continuously since 1998. He is running unopposed in the May 19, 2026 Republican primary. The general election is November 3, 2026.
Background
Moyle was born December 7, 1964, in Rexburg and graduated from Meridian High School in 1983. He worked briefly as a hunting guide before attending Brigham Young University, where he left college after his father was injured in an ATV accident and returned to take over the family farm, as described on his campaign website. He is a farmer and rancher in Star, where he also served as a volunteer fireman and fire commissioner. He has served on the Far West Spearmint Committee and the Middleton Irrigation District Board. He and his wife Janet have five children and ten grandchildren.
Political Career
Moyle was first elected to the Idaho House in 1998, defeating incumbent Dave Bivens by 14 votes in the Republican primary before winning the general election unopposed. He served as assistant majority leader beginning in 2003 and became House majority leader in 2006, a position he held until December 2022, when the Idaho House voted unanimously to make him Speaker, as documented by the Idaho Capital Sun.
In 2024, Moyle became the named plaintiff in a significant federal abortion case when he and the Idaho Legislature challenged a federal requirement that hospitals provide emergency abortion care under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court as Moyle v. United States, which dismissed the case on procedural grounds on June 27, 2024, without resolving the underlying constitutional question.
As Speaker, Moyle’s legislative agenda has centered on tax reduction. In the 2025 session, he introduced House Bill 40, which reduced Idaho’s individual and corporate income tax rates from 5.695% to 5.3%, and House Bill 74, which directed $50 million annually to the school district facilities fund. Combined with other measures, the 2025 session produced more than $400 million in tax relief across income, property, and sales taxes, as reported by the Idaho Capital Sun. The 2026 session was dominated by the resulting revenue shortfall. Idaho entered the year facing a projected $40.3 million deficit for fiscal year 2026 and an estimated $555 million deficit for fiscal year 2027, in part due to the cumulative effect of prior tax cuts and Idaho’s conformance to federal tax changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Legislature responded with broad agency budget reductions, including significant cuts to Medicaid, and conformed to most federal tax changes, as reported by Boise State Public Radio. The 2026 session produced a record 1,018 pieces of legislation over 82 days.
Moyle also advanced school choice legislation, immigration enforcement measures, and gender-related bills during his tenure as Speaker, including legislation clarifying sex definitions and pronoun use in state law, as reported by the Idaho Capital Sun.
Policy Positions
Moyle has stated repeatedly that tax reduction is the primary reason he sought elected office and remains his central legislative priority. He told reporters during the 2025 session: “Those of you that know me know that the only reason I ran for the Legislature is to cut taxes,” as reported by the Idaho Capital Sun. He supports reductions across income, property, and sales taxes, school choice through a student-centered funding model, zero-based budgeting for state agencies, immigration enforcement including e-verify requirements, and fiscal conservatism as the foundation of state governance.
He has also expressed concern about the rightward drift of some factions within Idaho’s Republican Party. After the Idaho Freedom Foundation gave him an “F” on its legislative scorecard, Moyle told InvestigateWest: “Even their own guys have said ‘IFF has gone crazy.’ Their own guys are saying they’re nuts.”
Political Alignment
Moyle is a Traditional Conservative Republican. His 27-year record reflects a consistent focus on tax reduction, agricultural interests, and business-oriented fiscal policy. He has drawn endorsements from the Idaho Farm Bureau, the Idaho Fraternal Order of Police, the Idaho Majority Club, and the Professional Firefighters of Idaho, as documented in campaign finance and endorsement records. The Idaho Freedom Foundation has given him failing scores on its legislative ratings, and Moyle himself has publicly criticized the organization’s direction, positioning himself at odds with the activist right while advancing conservative governance priorities through institutional channels.
Campaign and Endorsements
Moyle is running unopposed in the May 19, 2026 Republican primary. Documented endorsements include the Idaho Farm Bureau, the Idaho Fraternal Order of Police, the Idaho Majority Club, the Professional Firefighters of Idaho, and Rep. Bruce Skaug, per campaign records. He is the longest-serving current member of the Idaho House, now seeking his fifteenth term. The general election is November 3, 2026.
FAQ
Who is Mike Moyle, Idaho? Mike Moyle is a Republican state representative from Star, Idaho, currently serving his fourteenth term in the Idaho House of Representatives for District 10A. He is the Speaker of the Idaho House and Idaho’s longest-serving current state legislator, having served continuously since 1998.
What district does Mike Moyle represent? Moyle represents House District 10A, which covers the Star area in Ada County.
Is Mike Moyle an incumbent? Yes. Moyle was first elected in 1998 and is seeking a fifteenth term in 2026. He is running unopposed in the Republican primary.
What is Mike Moyle’s role in the Idaho Legislature? Moyle serves as Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, a position he has held since December 2022. He previously served as House majority leader from 2006 to 2022.
What are Mike Moyle’s main policy positions? Moyle’s stated priorities center on tax reduction across income, property, and sales taxes, school choice through student-centered funding, zero-based budgeting for state agencies, and immigration enforcement.
2024 Primary Election Results Moyle 4,994 / Hazelip 4,195
2024 General Election Results Moyle 26,668 / Parker 6,077
Profile published by IdahoVoters.com. Last updated April 2026. This profile will be updated as additional information becomes available.
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The single most powerful legislator in the Statehouse, Moyle showed this session that he’s willing to pull any arrow from the quiver...With 26 years’ experience in the Statehouse, including 18 years in House leadership, Moyle carries a considerable edge in name ID. Moyle can also tap into fundraising streams unavailable to newbies: as of the end of March, he has more than $108,000 in his campaign.
House Speaker Mike Moyle is proposing his own changes to address concerns over the complex, multi-pronged school facilities bill that the Legislature approved this session.
House Speaker Mike Moyle, R-Star, told reporters Wednesday that he felt the biggest accomplishment was the school facilities legislation, House Bill 521, which will inject $1.5 billion of new funding into schools and was Little’s top priority. “That for me is the centerpiece of this legislative session,” Moyle said.
“I think that we just want to make it clear — male and female — and make it clear that pronouns, if you want to have them — fine,” Moyle said. “But you don’t have to force people to use them.” In response to concerns over lawsuits related to those bills, Moyle said he does not think the laws are discriminatory, and he hopes they’ll be upheld in court.
Despite the criticism, Scott and several members of the Freedom Caucus were ready to come to his defense this spring. They were preparing to send a letter to the Young Americans for Liberty, declaring their support for Moyle and objecting to YAL’s attempts to defeat him. They credited Moyle with the “largest income tax relief in 10 years” and with”pushing back on the woke agendas creeping into Idaho.”
But others on the right viewed such a letter as a betrayal that undermined their efforts to oust Moyle. The Idaho Freedom Foundation, which has long been considered the most influential right-wing think tank in the state, had given Moyle an F for his “freedom score” and an F — a 22 out of a possible 100 — in the “spending” category.
Yet at least half of the Freedom Foundation’s top-six-scoring legislators had endorsed him, suggesting that the foundation’s power may have waned.
“Even their own guys have said ‘IFF has gone crazy,’” Moyle told InvestigateWest. “Their own guys are saying they’re nuts.”
Nate warned Scott repeatedly that there could be consequences to sending the letter supporting Moyle.
“If you do this thing with Moyle … the ramifications you could have outside of this building, to your allied partners could be very, very devastating,” Nate warned on the recording.
“Do you think I’m stupid and don’t know that?” Scott said. “Don’t you think I would take that into consideration?”
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