Utah's 4th congressional district

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Utah's 4th congressional district
Utah's 4th congressional district (since 2023).svg
Utah's 4th congressional district
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative
Distribution
  • 96.09% urban
  • 3.91% rural
Population (2023)885,524 [1]
Median household
income		$105,430 [1]
Ethnicity
Cook PVI R+16 [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]

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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] With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+16, it is the most Republican district in Utah, a state with an all-Republican congressional delegation. [2]

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 from 2001 to 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

YearOfficeResults [11] [12]
2008 President McCain 64% - 33%
2012 President Romney 77% - 23%
2016 President Trump 45% - 24%
Senate Lee 71% - 24%
Governor Herbert 69% - 26%
Attorney General Reyes 68% - 22%
2018 Senate Romney 66% - 27%
2020 President Trump 61% - 35%
Governor Cox 66% - 27%
Attorney General Reyes 63% - 31%

List of members representing the district

MemberPartyYearsCong
ress		Electoral historyCounties
District established 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.		2013–2023
Utah US Congressional District 4 (since 2013).tif
Parts of Juab, Salt Lake, Sanpete, and Utah
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
118th
119th 		Elected in 2020.
Re-elected in 2022.
Re-elected in 2024.
2023–present
Utah's 4th congressional district with inset (since 2023).svg
Sanpete; parts of Juab, Salt Lake, and Utah

Election results

2012

2012 election results [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jim Matheson (Incumbent) 119,803 48.84
Republican Mia Love 119,03548.53
Libertarian Jim L. Vein6,4392.63
Total votes245,277 100.0
Democratic win (new seat)

2014

2014 election results [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Mia Love 64,390 50.04
Democratic Doug Owens60,16546.75
Libertarian Jim L. Vein1,1540.90
Total votes125,709 97.7
Republican gain from Democratic

2016

2016 election results [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Mia Love (Incumbent) 147,597 53.76
Democratic Doug Owens113,41341.30
Constitution Collin R. Simonsen13,5594.94
Total votes274,569 100.0
Republican hold

2018

2018 election results [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Ben McAdams 134,964 50.13
Republican Mia Love (Incumbent)134,27049.87
Independent Jonathan Larele Peterson (write-in)370.0
Total votes269,271 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican

2020

2020 election results [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Burgess Owens 179,688 47.7
Democratic Ben McAdams (Incumbent)175,92346.7
Libertarian John Molnar13,0533.5
United Utah Jonia Broderick8,0372.1
Total votes376,701 100.0 [a]
Republican gain from Democratic

2022

2022 election results [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Burgess Owens (incumbent) 155,110 61.05
Democratic Darlene McDonald82,18132.35
United Utah January Walker16,7406.59
Independent Jonathan L. Peterson (write-in)250.01
Total votes254,056 100
Republican hold

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Notes

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