Utah State Senate

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Utah State Senate
Utah State Legislature
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Type
Type
Term limits
None
History
New session started
January 22, 2018
Leadership
President of the Senate
Majority Leader
Minority Leader
Structure
Seats29
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Political groups
Majority
  •    Republican (23)

Minority

Length of term
4 years
AuthorityArticle VI, Utah Constitution
Salary$130/day + per diem
Elections
Last election
November 6, 2018
(14 seats)
Next election
 November 3, 2020
(15 seats)
RedistrictingLegislative control
Meeting place
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State Senate Chamber
Utah State Capitol
Salt Lake City, Utah
Website
Utah State Senate

The Utah State Senate is the upper house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The Utah Senate is composed of 29 elected members representing an equal number of senate districts. Each senate district is composed of approximately 95,000 people. [1] Members of the Senate are elected to four-year terms without term limits. The Senate convenes at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City.

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Composition of the Senate

AffiliationParty
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
Total
Republican Democratic Libertarian Vacant
End of the 59th legislature2180290
Beginning of the 60th Legislature2450290
End 60th2351
61st Legislature2360290
62nd Legislature2450290
63rd Legislature2360290
The beginning of the 64th Legislature2360290
Latest voting share

Leadership, 64th session

PositionNamePartyDistrict
President of the Senate J. Stuart Adams Republican22
Majority Leader Evan Vickers Republican28
Majority Whip Ann Millner Republican18
Assistant Majority Whip Kirk Cullimore Republican9
Minority Leader Karen Mayne Democratic5
Minority Whip Luz Escamilla Democratic1
Assistant Minority Whip Jani Iwamoto Democratic4

Members of the 64th Senate

DistrictNamePartyFirst electedCounties
Represented		Margin [lower-alpha 1]
1 Luz Escamilla Dem2008 Salt Lake -29.4 [lower-alpha 2]
2 Derek Kitchen [3] Dem2018 Salt Lake -53.4 [lower-alpha 3]
3 Gene Davis Dem1998Salt Lake-40 [lower-alpha 4]
4 Jani Iwamoto Dem2014Salt Lake-34.2 [lower-alpha 5]
5 Karen Mayne Dem2008Salt Lake-37.4 [lower-alpha 6]
6 Wayne Harper Rep2012Salt Lake11.2 [lower-alpha 7]
7 Mike McKell Rep2020Utah55.4 [lower-alpha 8]
8 Kathleen Riebe Dem2018Salt Lake-13.2 [lower-alpha 9]
9 Kirk Cullimore Jr. Rep2018Salt Lake31.4 [lower-alpha 10]
10 Lincoln Fillmore Rep2015Salt Lake30.4 [lower-alpha 11]
11 Daniel McCay Rep2018Salt Lake, Utah 35.4 [lower-alpha 12]
12 Daniel Thatcher Rep2010Salt Lake, Tooele 5.2 [lower-alpha 13]
13 Jake Anderegg Rep2016Salt Lake, Utah100 [lower-alpha 14]
14 Mike Kennedy Rep2020↑Utah100 [lower-alpha 15]
15 Keith Grover Rep2018Utah63.4 [lower-alpha 16]
16 Curt Bramble Rep2000Utah, Wasatch 100 [lower-alpha 17]
17 Scott Sandall Rep2018 Box Elder, Cache, Tooele55.6 [lower-alpha 18]
18 F. Ann Millner Rep2014 Davis, Morgan, Weber 33.8 [lower-alpha 19]
19 John Johnson Rep2020Morgan, Summit, Weber 14.2 [lower-alpha 20]
20 D. Gregg Buxton Rep2016Davis, Weber100 [lower-alpha 21]
21 Jerry Stevenson Rep2010↑Davis43.4 [lower-alpha 22]
22 J. Stuart Adams Rep2009↑Davis100 [lower-alpha 23]
23 Todd Weiler Rep2012↑Davis, Salt Lake87.8 [lower-alpha 24]
24 Derrin Owens Rep2020 Garfield, Juab, Kane, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Utah, Wayne 80.4 [lower-alpha 25]
25 Chris H. Wilson Rep2020 Cache, Rich 42.8 [lower-alpha 26]
26 Ronald Winterton Rep2018 Daggett, Duchesne, Summit, Uintah, Wasatch,27.8 [lower-alpha 27]
27 David Hinkins Rep2008 Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Utah, Wasatch100 [lower-alpha 28]
28 Evan Vickers Rep2012 Beaver, Iron, Washington 58.2 [lower-alpha 29]
29 Don Ipson Rep2008Washington54 [lower-alpha 30]

↑: Senator was originally appointed

Notes

  1. ↑ Republican margin in last election
  2. ↑ 2020 [2]
  3. ↑ 2018 [4]
  4. ↑ 2018 [5]
  5. ↑ 2018 [6]
  6. ↑ 2018 [7]
  7. ↑ 2020 [8]
  8. ↑ 2020, against a United Utah candidate [9]
  9. ↑ 2020 [10]
  10. ↑ 2018, against a United Utah candidate [11]
  11. ↑ 2020 [12]
  12. ↑ 2018 [13]
  13. ↑ 2018 [14]
  14. ↑ 2020 unopposed [15]
  15. ↑ 2020, Appointed [16]
  16. ↑ 2018, against a United Utah candidate [17]
  17. ↑ 2020 [18]
  18. ↑ 2018 [19]
  19. ↑ 2018 [20]
  20. ↑ 2020 [21]
  21. ↑ 2020 [22]
  22. ↑ 2018 [23]
  23. ↑ 2018 [24]
  24. ↑ 2020, against a write-in candidate [25]
  25. ↑ 2020, against an Independent American Party of Utah candidate [26]
  26. ↑ 2020 [27]
  27. ↑ 2018 [28]
  28. ↑ 2020 [29]
  29. ↑ 2018 [30]
  30. ↑ 2020 [31]

Legislative Website

Utah Senate staff, under direction of Senate Presidents Waddoups and Niederhauser worked with the House of Representatives, the LFA, and other staff to develop what many have called the best legislative website in the nation. In 2014, le.utah.gov won the NCSL Online Democracy Award. [32] The Utah Legislature had previously won this award in 2005. [33]

Past composition of the Senate

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Mackun, Paul; Wilson, Steven. "U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. CENSUS BUREAU Population Distribution and Change: 2000 to 2010" (PDF). 2010 Census Briefs. United States Census. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  2. "Luz Escamilla". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Gay rights pioneer Derek Kitchen says goodbye to Salt Lake City Council, looks back on his triumphs, ahead to his future in the Utah Senate," The Salt Lake Tribune, November 27, 2018
  4. "Derek Kitchen". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  5. "Gene Davis". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  6. "Jani Iwamoto". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  7. "Karen Mayne". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  8. "Wayne Harper". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  9. "Mike McKell". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  10. "Kathleen Riebe". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  11. "Kirk Cullimore". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  12. "Lincoln Fillmore". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  13. "Dan McCay". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  14. "Daniel W. Thatcher". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  15. "Jake Anderegg". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  16. "Republican Mike Kennedy dominates special election to open Utah Senate seat". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  17. "Keith Grover". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  18. "Curtis Bramble". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  19. "Scott Sandall". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  20. "Ann Millner". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  21. "John Johnson (Utah)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  22. "David Buxton". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  23. "Jerry Stevenson". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  24. "Stuart Adams". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  25. "Todd Weiler". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  26. "Derrin Owens". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  27. "Chris Wilson (Utah)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  28. "Ronald Winterton". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  29. "David Hinkins". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  30. "Evan Vickers". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  31. "Don Ipson". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  32. ↑ Legislatures, National Conference of State. "2014 Online Democracy Award". www.ncsl.org. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
  33. ↑ Legislatures, National Conference of State. "Online Democracy Award Winners". www.ncsl.org. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
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