Staniela Nikolova

A candidate for U.S. Representative, Democratic Primary, Idaho Congressional District 1 in the 2016 Idaho Primary, May 17

Party: Democratic

City: Moscow, Idaho

A student at the University of Idaho, Nikolova served as an Idaho Senate page during her senior year of high school. She is self-funding her campaign, and has pledged that if she is elected, $50,000 of her salary from each year she serves in Congress would be donated to scholarships for Idaho college students. She advocates gradually increasing the minimum wage, national standards for police use of force, and rehabilitation rather than prison sentences for addicts.