Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...

is divided into 4

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s, each represented by a member of the

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. After the 2010 census, Utah gained one House seat, and a new map was approved by the

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and signed into law by Governor

Gary Herbert Gary Richard Herbert (born May 7, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 17th governor of Utah from 2009 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the National Governors Association during the 2015–2016 cycle. Herbert w ...

Current districts and representatives

Utah’s congressional districts are the subject of a court challenge and an example of partisan gerrymandering. In this instance, Republican lawmakers drew the boundaries to dilute the Democratic vote by splitting Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County across all four congressional districts. The

Utah Supreme Court The Utah Supreme Court is the supreme court of the state of Utah, United States. It has final authority of interpretation of the Utah Constitution. The Utah Supreme Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, an associate chief justice ...

ruled in July, 2024, that the legislature did not have the constitutional right to override 2018 Utah Proposition 4, which required districts be drawn by an independent redistricting commission. The lawsuit challenging the map was sent to a lower court for further consideration. The delegation has a total of four members, all

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Historical and present district boundaries

Table of United States congressional district boundary maps in the State of Utah, presented chronologically. All redistricting events that took place in Utah between 1973 and 2013 are shown.

Redistricting ballot measures

* 2018 Utah Proposition 4, a measure that would require the redistricting process to be done by a

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commission. This motion was passed by a margin of 0.68% however the Commission’s power ‘was stripped a year and a half later by the Legislature.’ * 2008 Utah Legislative Redistricting Requirement, Amendment D, a technical proposal that allowed the legislature to consider redistricting once census data was made public. Passed by a margin of 56.50%.

Obsolete districts

* Utah Territory's at-large congressional district * Utah's at-large congressional district

Current districts and representatives

Historical and present district boundaries

Redistricting ballot measures

Obsolete districts

References

See also