Two years after a turbulent election laden with partisan overtones, the College of Western Idaho’s trustee races are a non-election.

Four trustees will run unopposed in November: Vice Chair Cherie Buckner-Webb, Jim Reames, Gary Smith and Nicole Bradshaw. No other candidates filled out paperwork to run, CWI spokesman Ashley Smith said.

Community college trustee elections are nonpartisan — and normally nondescript.

But in 2022, a slate of upstart candidates ran on what they billed as a Republican Party ticket, vowing to cut spending and property tax levies and stamp out what two candidates called “agenda-based curricula.”

A status-quo ticket — including Reames and Bradshaw — swept the elections soundly.