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Idaho Senate

upper state chamber of a state of the United-States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1494863 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Idaho State Senate is the upper chamber of the Idaho Legislature. It consists of 35 senators elected to two-year terms, each representing a district of the state. The Senate meets at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise, Idaho.

Composition of the Senate

Since 1992, the Republican Party has won more than half of the seats of the state Senate.

Editorial summary

“Idaho Senate” enters the record as upper state chamber of a state of the United-States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Idaho, Senate and upper can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Idaho, Senate and upper.
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“Idaho Senate” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Idaho, Senate and upper provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1494863. VIAF identifies the subject as 147857938. The Library of Congress control number is n88199730. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Idaho Senate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.