Utah's 4th congressional district

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Utah's 4th congressional district
Utah US Congressional District 4 (since 2013).tif
Utah's 4th congressional district since January 3, 2013
Representative
  Burgess Owens
R–Salt Lake City
Distribution
  • 96.09% urban
  • 3.91% rural
Population (2019)850,432 [1]
Median household
income		$80,918[1]
Ethnicity
Cook PVIR+6[2]

Utah's 4th congressional district is a congressional district created by the state legislature as a result of reapportionment by Congress after the 2010 Census showed population increases in the state relative to other states.[3] Prior to 2010 reapportionment, Utah had three congressional districts.[3]

Some 85 percent of the new district is concentrated in Salt Lake County and it includes a portion of Salt Lake City, which is shared with the 2nd and 3rd districts; it also includes parts of Utah, Juab, and Sanpete counties.[4][5][6][7] Candidates first appeared on the 2012 ballot.

As a result of redistricting, the 2012 party candidates included Democratic U.S. Congressman Jim Matheson, who had previously represented Utah's 2nd congressional district 2001–2013. The Republican nominee was Mia Love, mayor of Saratoga Springs and running for Congress for the first time. She won the Republican nomination in 2012 over two state representatives, Stephen Sandstrom and Carl Wimmer, at the Republican state convention.

Democratic candidate Matheson narrowly won the election against Love on November 6, 2012, and represented Utah's 4th congressional district until January 2015.[8] He decided not to seek re-election.[9] In 2014, Mia Love ran again for the seat and won in the general election, defeating Democratic candidate Doug Owens. She became the first Haitian American and the first black female Republican elected to Congress, as well as the first black person of either sex elected to Congress from Utah.

In the 2018 elections, Love ran for a third term, losing to Salt Lake County mayor Ben McAdams by 694 votes out of almost 270,000. As a result of McAdams's election, the district became the most Republican district in the country to be represented by a Democrat.[10] In 2020, Republican Burgess Owens narrowly defeated McAdams to regain the congressional seat for the Republican Party.

Recent election results from statewide races[]

Source:[11]

Year Office Result
2012 President Romney 67.2 - 30.2%
2016 President Trump 39.1 - 32.4%
2020 President Trump 52.4 - 43.3%

List of members representing the district[]

Member District Home Party Years Cong
ress 		Electoral history
District created January 3, 2013
Mathesonbio.jpg
Jim Matheson 		Salt Lake City Democratic January 3, 2013 –
January 3, 2015 		113th Redistricted from the 2nd district and re-elected in 2012.
Retired.
Mia Love Congressional Photo.jpg
Mia Love 		Saratoga Springs Republican January 3, 2015 –
January 3, 2019 		114th
115th 		Elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2016.
Lost re-election.
Ben McAdams, official portrait, 116th Congress.jpg
Ben McAdams 		Salt Lake City Democratic January 3, 2019 –
January 3, 2021 		116th Elected in 2018.
Lost re-election.
Burgess Owens 117th U.S Congress.jpg
Burgess Owens 		Salt Lake City Republican January 3, 2021 –
Present 		117th Elected in 2020.

Election results[]

2012[]

2012 election results[12]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jim Matheson (Incumbent) 119,803 48.84
Republican Mia Love 119,035 48.53
Libertarian Jim L. Vein 6,439 2.63
Total votes 245,277 100.0
Democratic win (new seat)

2014[]

2014 election results[13]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mia Love 64,390 50.04
Democratic Doug Owens 60,165 46.75
Libertarian Jim L. Vein 1,154 0.90
Total votes 125,709 97.7
Republican gain from Democratic

2016[]

2016 election results[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mia Love (Incumbent) 147,597 53.76
Democratic Doug Owens 113,413 41.30
Constitution Collin R. Simonsen 13,559 4.94
Total votes 274,569 100.0
Republican hold

2018[]

2018 election results[15]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ben McAdams 134,964 50.13
Republican Mia Love (Incumbent) 134,270 49.87
Independent Jonathan Larele Peterson (write-in) 37 0.0
Total votes 269,271 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican

2020[]

2020 election results[16]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Burgess Owens 179,688 47.7
Democratic Ben McAdams (Incumbent) 175,923 46.7
Libertarian John Molnar 13,053 3.5
United Utah Jonia Broderick 8,037 2.1
Total votes 376,701 100.0[a]
Republican gain from Democratic

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "My Congressional District, Utah - Congressional District 4". Bureau of Census.
  2. ^ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 117th Congress". The Cook Political Report. April 15, 2021. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Census 2010 shows Red states gaining congressional districts". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  4. ^ "District Map of Congressional Voting Districts for Utah". Utah.gov. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  5. ^ Gehrke, Robert (December 15, 2011). "Matheson will run in newly created 4th District". The Salt Lake Tribune.
  6. ^ Gehrke, Robert (November 20, 2012). "Matheson holds on to win by whisker, but Utah GOP questions results". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  7. ^ "2012 General Election Canvass Report". Election Results 2012. Utah Lieutenant Governor's Office. November 2012. p. 4. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  8. ^ "Mia Love Election Results: Jim Matheson Bests Republican Challenger". Huffington Post. November 7, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  9. ^ Livingston, Abby (December 17, 2013). "Democrat Jim Matheson Announces Retirement". Roll Call.
  10. ^ "PVI Map and District List". The Cook Political Report. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  11. ^ "Presidential Election Results, by district" – via Daily Kos.
  12. ^ 2012 Preliminary Election Results, Clerk of the House
  13. ^ "Utah Election Results". The New York Times. December 17, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  14. ^ "Utah U.S. House 4th District". The New York Times. November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  15. ^ "US Congressional District 4". Utah Election Preliminary Results. 2018.
  16. ^ https://electionresults.utah.gov/elections/uscongress/4

Notes[]

  1. ^ Reported

External links[]

Coordinates: 40°40′12″N 111°55′48″W / 40.6700°N 111.9300°W / 40.6700; -111.9300

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