Editing Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (section)

==Government==
{{see also|List of mayors of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho}}
[[File:KootenaiCountyCourthouse.jpg|thumb|alt=Kootenai County Courthouse|[[Kootenai County Courthouse]]]]
The community operates on a [[mayor–council government]], where the mayor and the six councilors are each elected to four-year terms and the mayor leads the city council meetings on the first and third Tuesday of each month at Coeur d'Alene City Hall.<ref>{{cite web| title = City Council| publisher = City of Coeur d'Alene| url = https://cdaid.org/15/departments/council| access-date = August 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title = Council Members| publisher = City of Coeur d'Alene| url = https://cdaid.org/140/departments/council/council-members| access-date = August 8, 2020}}</ref> The city is also the [[county seat]] of [[Kootenai County, Idaho]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web| title=Find a County| publisher=[[National Association of Counties]]| url= https://ce.naco.org/?county_info=16055 | access-date=October 12, 2020}}</ref>

At the state level, The City of Coeur d'Alene is within [[Idaho Legislative District 2]] and [[Idaho Legislative District 4]] for the [[Idaho House of Representatives]] and [[Idaho Senate]]. At the federal level, north Idaho is within [[Idaho's 1st congressional district]] and represented by [[Russ Fulcher]] in the [[United States House of Representatives]] and the state of Idaho by [[Mike Crapo]] and [[James Risch]] in the [[United States Senate]].<ref>{{cite web| title = Find Your Representative| publisher = U.S. House of Representatives| url = https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative| access-date = August 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title = Senators of the 116th Congress| publisher = senate.gov| url = https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC| access-date = August 8, 2020}}</ref>

Coeur d'Alene, like the state of Idaho as a whole, is known for its conservative politics.<ref>{{cite web| last = Blanchard| first = Nicole| title = These are the 20 most liberal places in Idaho| newspaper = [[Idaho Statesman]]| date = July 26, 2018| url = https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article215493035.html| access-date = August 12, 2020}}</ref> The city and [[Kootenai County, Idaho|Kootenai County]] vote reliably conservative, and races at the federal and state level are often noncompetitive; local county and city partisan races are sometimes even uncontested.<ref name=SPR>{{cite web| title = State of the Re:Union – Coeur d'Alene and Ideology Migration| date = October 3, 2014| publisher = [[KPBX-FM|Spokane Public Radio]]| url = https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/post/state-reunion-coeur-dalene-and-ideology-migration#stream/0| access-date = August 8, 2020}}</ref> The changing demographics of the county and region have altered the political landscape of the community and can be viewed as part of a nationwide ideological [[Political polarization|polarization]] trend.<ref name=HCN>{{cite journal| last = Crane-Murdoch| first = Sierra| title = How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho| journal = [[High Country News]]| volume = 8| issue = 45| date = May 20, 2013| url = https://www.hcn.org/issues/45.8/how-right-wing-emigrants-conquered-north-idaho| access-date = August 8, 2020}}</ref> North Idaho had once been made up of largely [[Lunch pail Democrat|progressive]] districts populated by a significant proportion of union laborers who worked the mines in the [[Shoshone County, Idaho|Silver Valley]]; these districts moderated, particularly in the 1980s, after mine and mill closures and [[Right-to-work law|union busting]], and they had more competitive elections until the late 20th century.<ref name=HCN/><ref name=SPR/><ref>{{cite web| last = Siegler| first = Kirk| title = Leaving Urban Areas For The Political Homogeneity Of Rural Towns| publisher = [[NPR]]| series = [[Morning Edition]]| date = February 14, 2017| url = https://www.npr.org/2017/02/14/512875545/leaving-urban-areas-for-the-political-homogeneity-of-rural-towns| access-date = August 14, 2020}}</ref><ref name =BF>{{cite web| last = Petersen| first = Anne Helen| title = Here's What Happens When Republicans Have No One To Fight| publisher = [[BuzzFeed News]]| date = October 22, 2017| url = https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/wackadoodles-north-idaho| access-date = August 14, 2020}}</ref> Coeur d'Alene is among a small group of cities in the United States that has elected a [[List of elected socialist mayors in the United States|socialist mayor]]; they elected John T. Wood, a [[Socialist Party of America]] member, to office in 1911 on a [[Sewer socialism|campaign platform]] of clean water, better health and sanitation standards, and anti-corruption.<ref>Singletary (2019), p. 63</ref> Since the high-growth period beginning in the 1990s, continuing outmigration of conservatives from the [[Left Coast|west coast]] states has made elections in the [[two-party system]] less competitive over time as the newer residents see the city as a place that represents their social and political values, which are sometimes more conservative than the city as a whole.<ref name=SPR/><ref name=BF/> Many of the new migrants to the state of Idaho came from California, which accounted for over half the net in-migration between 1992 and 2000 and three of the top four counties that had out-migration to Kootenai County were from the birthplace of modern American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservatism]] in [[southern California]]–[[San Diego County, California|San Diego]], [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]], and [[Orange County, California|Orange]].<ref name=HCN/>