Utah’s primary process and vote-by-mail system came under fire from losing campaigns in 2024 who criticized the privacy of candidate signature packets, the subjectivity of signature verification and the uncertainty of relying on the U.S. Postal Service to return ballots.
Utah voters delivered President-elect Donald Trump his highest vote share ever in the state on Election Day. Republican success extended down the ballot: statewide candidates glided to victory and the Legislature’s GOP supermajority maintained its same margin of dominance.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who was widely considered a top pick for AG, told the Deseret News in a statement that Trump’s Cabinet nominees represent the message Trump rode to a histori
Democrats are offering victory comments in two close Utah House races, while a Republican challenger has added to her lead in a third tight contest.
View live results of the Utah presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Preliminary election night results are in, and we’re getting our first look at the makeup of the Utah Legislature in 2025. All 75 Utah House seats and 15 out of 29 Senate seats are up for reelection — however,
Gov. Spencer Cox (R) is the projected winner of Utah’s gubernatorial race over state Rep. Brian King (D), according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ. His victory comes after the
Republican U.S. Rep. John Curtis has won Mitt Romney’s open U.S. Senate seat in Utah. Curtis breezed to victory over Democrat Caroline Gleich, a mountaineer and environmental activist from Park City.
Owens represents Utah’s 4th Congressional District, which includes parts of Salt Lake, Utah and Juab counties, plus all of Sanpete County. He serves on the House Education and Workforce Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Rep. John Curtis wins Utah's U.S. Senate seat, promising a bipartisan approach while advocating for public lands, energy production, and U.S.-China relations.
A wave of independent candidates this year wanted to “make history” and maybe even “reshape the state’s political landscape” by winning several seats in Utah’s long Republican-dominated Legislature. Those were their hopes,
A lot of the spending in Utah elections for statewide seats comes before convention and before the primary, likely because those seats are often considered safe for Republicans. That money is spent on things like ads and gathering signatures to make it onto primary ballots.