2026 Utah Senate election

2026 Utah Senate election

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15 of the 29 seats in the Utah Senate 15 seats needed for a majority
Leader Stuart Adams Luz Escamilla Daniel Thatcher Party Republican Democratic Forward Leader's seat 7th–Salt Lake 10th–Salt Lake 11th–West Valley Last election 23 seats; 68.0% 6 seats; 22.8% 0 seats; 0.0% Current seats 22 6 1 Seats needed 9 14
Map of incumbents:      Republican incumbent     Democratic incumbent      Utah Forward incumbent     No election
Incumbent Senate President Stuart Adams Republican

The 2026 Utah Senate election is scheduled to be held on November 3, 2026, as part of the 2026 United States elections. Fifteen of the twenty-nine seats in the Utah Senate are up for election to the 67th Legislature. The elections will coincide with elections for other offices in Utah, including for U.S. House and the state house. Newly-elected senators will take office on January 1, 2027. ^[1]

The Republicans currently hold a supermajority in the chamber, controlling twenty-two of the twenty-nine seats. The Democrats hold the second-most seats with six, and the Utah Forward has held one seat since Senator Daniel Thatcher from Salt Lake County switched from the Republican Party during the 2025 legislative session. Thatcher is the first third-party state senator in Utah since Republican senator Mark B. Madsen switched to the Libertarian Party in 2016. ^[2]

Districts 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 28 will be up for election in 2026.

Partisan background

In the 2024 presidential election in Utah, the Republican nominee Donald Trump won twenty-two state senate districts, while the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris won seven districts.

2024 Presidential results by Senate district:

  Trump

•   50–60%
•   60–70%
•   70–80%
•   80–90%

  Harris

•   40–50%
•   50–60%
•   60–70%
•   70–80%

By seat

This table lists which presidential candidate won each district in 2024 that is up for election in 2026. ^[3]

District	County(ies) represented	Incumbent	2024 Pres. margin
District 1	Box Elder, Cache, Tooele	Scott Sandall (R)	R+54.7
District 5	Davis, Morgan, Weber	Ann Millner (R)	R+11.4
District 6	Davis	Jerry Stevenson (R)	R+30.4
District 7	Salt Lake	J. Stuart Adams (R)	R+25.2
District 9	Salt Lake	Jen Plumb (D)	D+56.7
District 11	Salt Lake, Tooele	Daniel Thatcher (Fwd)	R+34.9
District 12	Salt Lake	Karen Kwan (D)	D+6.3
District 13	Salt Lake	Nate Blouin (D)	D+39.1
District 14	Salt Lake	Stephanie Pitcher (D)	D+31.6
District 18	Salt Lake, Utah	Daniel McCay (R)	R+30.6
District 19	Salt Lake	Kirk Cullimore Jr. (R)	R+8.9
District 20	Daggett, Duchesne, Summit, Uintah, Wasatch	Daniel McCay (R)	R+35.3
District 21	Utah	Brady Brammer (R)	R+42.6
District 23	Utah	Keith Grover (R)	R+31.0
District 28	Beaver, Iron, Washington	Evan Vickers (R)	R+58.4

References

1. "Utah State Senate elections, 2026". Ballotpedia. Retrieved March 9, 2025.
2. Gehrke, Robert (March 7, 2025). "Sen. Dan Thatcher is leaving Utah's Republican Party to 'break the deadlock' in politics". Salt Lake City Tribune. Retrieved March 9, 2025.
3. "UT 2022 State Senate - 2024 Presidential Election". Dave's Redistricting. Retrieved March 9, 2025.