Utah News Dispatch

04/11/2026 01:51

Utah Legislature 2026 election night results: Here’s who is on track to win and lose

Tim Schorzman prepares to verify and sort paper ballots at the Salt Lake County Government Center on Tuesday, Nov 3, 2026. (Photo by Marco Lozzi for Utah News Dispatch)

With a blue wave sweeping the nation, preliminary election night results in Utah show at least 12 Republican state lawmakers could be on track to lose reelection to Democrats and one unaffiliated candidate.

For House District 26, Rep. Matt Macpherson, of West Valley City, was trailing with only 34% of the vote to Democrat Michael Finch’s 64%
In House District 27. Rep. Anthony Loubet was trailing Democrat Liz Oats, who had 63% to Loubet’s 37%
For House District 36, Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, had only 46% of the vote behind Democrat Blake Townsend, who had about 54%
For House District 3, unaffiliated candidate Patrick Belmont, with nearly 58% of the vote, was on track to unseat Rep. Jason Thompson
For House District 48, Republican incumbent Rep. Jake Hunsaker was trailing Democrat Benyde Walker. Walker had 51.4% of the vote to Hunsaker’s 48.5%
In House District 4, Republican Rep. Tiara Auxier was on track to lose her seat to Democrat Zane Woolstenhulme, trailing him 52% to 48%
For House District 9, Republican incumbent Rep. Jake Sawyer was trailing Democrat Angela Choberka, who had 54% to Sawyer’s nearly 46%
For House District 20, Republican incumbent Rep. Melissa Ballard was trailing Democrat Phil Graves, 51.8% to 48.2%
For House District 43, Republican incumbent Rep. Steve Eliason was on track to lose to Democrat Ofa Matagi, 55.4% to 44.6%
For House District 44, Republican Rep. Jordan Teuscher was trailing Democrat Jess Birtcher, who had 53.6% to Teuscher’s 46.4%
For House District 8, Democrat Kim James was leading Republican incumbent Rep. Jason Kyle with 50.44% to 46%. Forward Party candidate Libby Shelton had 3.6% of the vote
In the Senate, incumbent Republican Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore was trailing Democrat Shana Anderson, with nearly 44% to Anderson’s 57%

In the Senate, Democrat “CJ” Christina Hernandez was on track to flip the open District 5 from red to blue. She had nearly 58% of the vote to Republican Jill Koford’s 42.5%, who left her seat in the House to vie for the seat left open by retired Sen. Ann Milner.

For the open House District 10 seat, Democrat Rosemary Lesser had 63% of the vote to Republican Jim Alvey’s 36%, putting her on track to flip Koford’s former Republican seat.

At least three races had tight margins.

For Senate District 11, Sen. Emily Buss — the Forward Party’s only sitting legislator in the country — was narrowly leading with 50.07% of the vote to Republican Brooks Benson’s 49.93%
For House District 59, Democrat Celeste Johnson held a narrow lead against Republican Luke Searle. Johnson had 50.23% of the vote to Searle’s 49.77%
For House District 11, Republican incumbent Rep. Katy Hall had 50.01% of the vote to Democrat Dave Calder’s 49.99%

From the Utah Republican Party’s election night watch party in Draper, Utah GOP Chair Rob Axson told Utah News Dispatch early election night results skewed Democratic and he expects legislative races to “change dramatically” as more results are tallied.

“It’s too early of a snapshot,” he said. “I mean, obviously it’s always good to be in the lead from the start of the race to the end of the race, but the only thing that matters is when it’s finalized. So we’ll see where we are moving forward. But there’s a lot of really good candidates, and I’m confident that we’re going to have a great Republican legislature.”

Axson also acknowledged “it’s a very difficult election year” for Republicans, but he wouldn’t go as far as saying the national blue wave had hit Utah.

“I wouldn’t say that. We’ll have to see where the results are,” he said. “Certainly, Democrats have done well nationally. They’re going to outperform their traditional performance here locally. But until we’re done, it’s too early to say with the results we’re seeing so far.”

Fifteen of Utah’s 29 state Senate districts and all 75 House districts were up for election this year.

Here’s a list of where unofficial election night results stand after polls closed at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Results aren’t final until after the county and state canvass in two weeks.

Utah House

State House District 1

Thomas Peterson (Republican): 6,763 (69.25%)
Chris Reid (Democratic): 2,145 (21.96%)
Jason O’Dell (Constitution): 858 (8.79%)

State House District 2

Mike Petersen (Republican): 5,385 (61.23%)
Barbara J. Haggerty (Democratic): 3,410 (38.77%)

State House District 3

Patrick Belmont (Unaffiliated): 3,984 (57.76%)
Jason E. Thompson (Republican): 2,914 (42.24%)

State House District 4

Zane Woolstenhulme (Democratic): 4,791 (52.01%)
Tiara Auxier (Republican): 4,421 (47.99%)

State House District 5

Casey Snider (Republican): 6,097 (63.54%)
Kendra Penry (Democratic): 3,499 (36.46%)

State House District 6

Rob Bishop (Republican): 7,321 (68.24%)
James Rich (Forward): 3,407 (31.76%)

State House District 7

Ryan D. Wilcox (Republican): 5,217 (52.08%)
Bianca Mittendorf (Democratic): 4,801 (47.92%)

State House District 8

Kim James (Democratic): 5,911 (50.17%)
Jason B Kyle (Republican): 5,414 (45.96%)
Libby Shelton (Forward): 456 (3.87%)

State House District 9

Angela Choberka (Democratic): 4,669 (53.65%)
Jake Sawyer (Republican): 4,033 (46.35%)

State House District 10

Rosemary T Lesser (Democratic): 5,661 (62.95%)
Jim Alvey (Republican): 3,332 (37.05%)

State House District 11

Katy Hall (Republican): 4,384 (50.47%)
Dave Calder (Democratic): 4,303 (49.53%)

State House District 12

Mike Schultz (Republican): 5,717 (56.49%)
Anna Graff (Democratic): 4,403 (43.51%)

State House District 13

Erik R. Craythorne (Republican): 3,858 (51.56%)
Jeffrey Anderson (Democratic): 3,112 (41.59%)
Tony De Mille (Forward): 513 (6.86%)

State House District 14

John Taylor (Republican): 3,936 (54.27%)
Brandon Young (Democratic): 3,317 (45.73%)

State House District 15

Ariel Defay (Republican): 5,256 (59.50%)
Anne Berbert (Democratic): 3,577 (40.50%)

State House District 16

Bob J Stevenson (Republican): 4,452 (51.73%)
Abigail Treasure (Democratic): 4,154 (48.27%)

State House District 17

Lili Bitner (Republican): 5,665 (58.13%)
Eric Last (Democratic): 4,081 (41.87%)

State House District 18

Paul Cutler (Republican): 6,102 (58.46%)
Scott Troxel (Democratic): 4,336 (41.54%)

State House District 19

Raymond P. Ward (Republican): 8,108 (100.00%)

State House District 20

Phil Graves (Democratic): 4,572 (51.97%)
Melissa Ballard (Republican): 4,225 (48.03%)

State House District 21

Stephen Otterstrom (Democratic): 4,272 (100.00%)

State House District 22

Jen Dailey-Provost (Democratic): 7,493 (86.96%)
Char Varga (Republican): 1,124 (13.04%)

State House District 23

Hoang Nguyen (Democratic): 10,523 (83.04%)
Franklin D. Robinson (Republican): 1,883 (14.86%)
Cabot W Nelson (Forward): 266 (2.10%)

State House District 24

Grant Amjad Miller (Democratic): 7,435 (89.81%)
Braeden J. Oswald (Republican): 844 (10.19%)

State House District 25

Angela Romero (Democratic): 2,708 (75.94%)
Richard T Nowak (Republican): 858 (24.06%)

State House District 26

Michael E Finch (Democratic): 3,692 (64.07%)
Matt Macpherson (Republican): 2,070 (35.93%)

State House District 27

Liz Oates (Democratic): 3,627 (63.19%)
Anthony Loubet (Republican): 2,113 (36.81%)

State House District 28

Nicholeen Peck (Republican): 4,333 (52.84%)
Anita Dalrymple (Democratic): 3,275 (39.93%)
Wales Nematollahi (Forward): 593 (7.23%)

State House District 29

Sheldon Birch (Republican): 6,458 (67.26%)
Sara Snow (Democratic): 2,296 (23.91%)
Tynley Bean (Forward): 458 (4.77%)
Jonathan Garrard (Constitution): 390 (4.06%)

State House District 30

Jake Fitisemanu (Democratic): 4,061 (63.88%)
Dave Parke (Republican): 2,296 (36.12%)

State House District 31

Verona Mauga (Democratic): 3,687 (69.29%)
Melody Jones (Republican): 1,634 (30.71%)

State House District 32

Sahara Hayes (Democratic): 6,328 (83.29%)
Aileen Hampton (Republican): 1,270 (16.71%)

State House District 33

Doug Owens (Democratic): 9,661 (78.21%)
Anna Reeves (Republican): 2,691 (21.79%)

State House District 34

Julie Jackson (Democratic): 7,687 (100.00%)

State House District 35

Rosalba Dominguez (Democratic): 5,099 (66.45%)
Monique I. Ketcham (Republican): 2,574 (33.55%)

State House District 36

Blake Townsend (Democratic): 4,549 (54.09%)
Jim Dunnigan (Republican): 3,861 (45.91%)

State House District 37

Ashlee Matthews (Democratic): 3,338 (64.19%)
Casey Saxton (Republican): 1,862 (35.81%)

State House District 38

Sergio Sotelo (Unaffiliated): 3,067 (56.63%)
Chris Mcconnehey (Republican): 2,349 (43.37%)

State House District 39

Drew Howells (Democratic): 3,829 (59.87%)
Ken Ivory (Republican): 2,567 (40.13%)

State House District 40

Andrew Stoddard (Democratic): 5,210 (100.00%)

State House District 41

John Arthur (Democratic): 7,947 (67.74%)
Darren Croft (Republican): 3,785 (32.26%)

State House District 42

Iva Williams (Democratic): 6,835 (55.77%)
Clint Okerlund (Republican): 5,421 (44.23%)

State House District 43

Ofa Matagi (Democratic): 4,858 (55.42%)
Steve Eliason (Republican): 3,908 (44.58%)

State House District 44

Jess Birtcher (Democratic): 4,839 (53.62%)
Jordan Teuscher (Republican): 4,185 (46.38%)

State House District 45

Tracy Miller (Republican): 4,520 (52.83%)
Rod Moser (Democratic): 4,036 (47.17%)

State House District 46

Cal Roberts (Republican): 3,761 (52.59%)
Braxten Rutherford (Democratic): 3,391 (47.41%)

State House District 47

Mark A. Strong (Republican): 4,656 (100.00%)

State House District 48

Benyde Walker (Democratic): 3,635 (51.43%)
Jake Hunsaker (Republican): 3,433 (48.57%)

State House District 49

Candice B. Pierucci (Republican): 3,158 (51.94%)
Lillian Bowles (Democratic): 2,922 (48.06%)

State House District 50

Stephanie Gricius (Republican): 2,835 (56.52%)
Kristin Meyer (Democratic): 2,181 (43.48%)

State House District 51

Leah Hansen (Republican): 3,530 (53.05%)
Brett Nielsen (Democratic): 3,124 (46.95%)

State House District 52

Cory Maloy (Republican): 3,207 (52.05%)
Nicole Melling (Democratic): 2,888 (46.88%)
Write-In (None): 66 (1.07%)

State House District 53

Kay J. Christofferson (Republican): 3,527 (51.54%)
John Boyd (Forward): 2,219 (32.43%)
Kevin R Slater (Democratic): 1,097 (16.03%)

State House District 54

Kristen S. Chevrier (Republican): 5,316 (65.92%)
Kristina Robinson (Democratic): 2,748 (34.08%)

State House District 55

Jon Hawkins (Republican): 4,550 (64.01%)
Travis Hysell (Democratic): 2,558 (35.99%)

State House District 56

Val L. Peterson (Republican): 2,887 (57.01%)
Natassja Grossman (Democratic): 2,177 (42.99%)

State House District 57

Nelson Abbott (Republican): 3,772 (80.86%)
Write-In (None): 893 (19.14%)

State House District 58

David Shallenberger (Republican): 5,423 (62.32%)
Karli Black (Democratic): 3,279 (37.68%)

State House District 59

Celeste T. Johnson (Democratic): 6,039 (50.23%)
Luke Searle (Republican): 5,984 (49.77%)

State House District 60

Grant Pace (Republican): 1,302 (100.00%)

State House District 61

Lisa Shepherd (Republican): 2,634 (51.00%)
Alan Jimenez (Democratic): 2,363 (45.75%)
Jennifer K Doud (Constitution): 168 (3.25%)

State House District 62

David Chappell (Democratic): 2,443 (54.02%)
Norm Thurston (Republican): 2,079 (45.98%)

State House District 63

Stephen L. Whyte (Republican): 5,145 (64.90%)
Mark Youngquist (Democratic): 2,084 (26.29%)
Julie Smith (Forward): 699 (8.82%)

State House District 64

Jackie Larson (Republican): 4,423 (63.01%)
Alan Wessman (Unaffiliated): 2,596 (36.99%)

State House District 65

Doug Welton (Republican): 5,076 (100.00%)

State House District 66

Troy Shelley (Republican): 5,241 (73.38%)
Breanne Mashek (Democratic): 1,285 (17.99%)
Russ Hatch (Constitution): 616 (8.63%)

State House District 67

Jr Bird (Republican): 7,857 (74.90%)
Carl Ingwell (Democratic): 2,633 (25.10%)

State House District 68

Scott H Chew (Republican): 6,437 (85.79%)
Sonya Ray (Constitution): 1,066 (14.21%)

State House District 69

Logan J. Monson (Republican): 7,293 (59.24%)
Tracie Yellowman Tso (Democratic): 5,018 (40.76%)

State House District 70

Carl R. Albrecht (Republican): 8,688 (82.65%)
Stacey D. Pendergraft (Democratic): 1,602 (15.24%)
Zeno B. Parry (Forward): 222 (2.11%)

State House District 71

Rex P Shipp (Republican): 6,244 (69.39%)
Thomas Loveheart (Democratic): 2,754 (30.61%)

State House District 72

Joseph Elison (Republican): 7,380 (68.37%)
Eva M Weldon (Democratic): 2,953 (27.36%)
April A Pinkston (Constitution): 461 (4.27%)

State House District 73

Colin W. Jack (Republican): 5,978 (69.37%)
Glenn D Webb (Democratic): 2,640 (30.63%)

State House District 74

R. Neil Walter (Republican): 7,835 (64.99%)
Jeffrey N Lipe (Democratic): 4,221 (35.01%)

State House District 75

Walt Brooks (Republican): 5,850 (70.10%)
Rebecca Winsor (Democratic): 2,495 (29.90%)

Utah Senate

State Senate District 1

Scott Sandall (Republican): 16,181 (64.79%)
Claudia Bigler (Democratic): 6,780 (27.15%)
Julie Quinlan (Forward): 2,012 (8.06%)

State Senate District 5

“Cj” Christina Hernandez (Democratic): 13,508 (57.27%)
Jill F. Koford (Republican): 10,078 (42.73%)

State Senate District 6

Tami Tran (Republican): 11,522 (56.01%)
Jared Neal (Democratic): 7,601 (36.95%)
Josh Smith (Forward): 1,449 (7.04%)

State Senate District 7

Stephanie Hollist (Republican): 14,828 (56.28%)
Garret Rushforth (Democratic): 10,287 (39.05%)
Jeffrey Ostler (Constitution): 1,231 (4.67%)

State Senate District 9

Jen Plumb (Democratic): 18,328 (84.89%)
Thaddeus A Evans (Republican): 2,692 (12.47%)
J. Lowry Snow (Forward): 571 (2.64%)

State Senate District 11

Emily Buss (Forward): 8,683 (50.07%)
Brooks Benson (Republican): 8,659 (49.93%)

State Senate District 12

Karen Kwan (Democratic): 9,629 (67.56%)
Deidre Tyler (Republican): 4,624 (32.44%)

State Senate District 13

Silvia Catten (Democratic): 14,334 (77.90%)
Ryan L. Mahoney (Republican): 3,426 (18.62%)
Colin Smith (Forward): 641 (3.48%)

State Senate District 14

Stephanie Pitcher (Democratic): 24,049 (100.00%)

State Senate District 18

Doug Fiefia (Republican): 8,837 (55.93%)
A. Dane Anderson (Democratic): 6,964 (44.07%)

State Senate District 19

Shana Anderson (Democratic): 14,734 (57.03%)
Kirk Cullimore (Republican): 11,100 (42.97%)

State Senate District 20

Ronald M Winterton (Republican): 14,485 (62.90%)
Annette Mcrae (Forward): 8,544 (37.10%)

State Senate District 21

Brady Brammer (Republican): 11,088 (56.65%)
Kandee Myers (Democratic): 5,722 (29.23%)
Wayne Woodfield (Forward): 2,763 (14.12%)

State Senate District 23

Keith Grover (Republican): 7,883 (55.18%)
Tucker Smith (Democratic): 6,404 (44.82%)

State Senate District 28

Evan J Vickers (Republican): 18,408 (75.48%)
Richard S Robillard (Democratic): 5,979 (24.52%)

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