Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson on Tuesday said she did not want to place personal blame on Utah County Clerk Aaron Davidson for election night problems that led to voters waiting hours at some polling locations Tuesday night.

Utah voters said ‘yes’ to both constitutional amendments on the Nov. 5 ballot, according to preliminary results projected by the Associated Press.

Once the first Utah election results were released Tuesday night, it became clear that the Utah Legislature will largely stay the same, both in terms of party control, and in incumbents returning.

The Associated Press called Utah’s 2nd District for Rep. Celeste Maloy in the early hours of Wednesday morning. This will be Maloy’s first full term in office after she won a special election in 2023.

The Utah Legislature’s Republican supermajority caucuses voted to keep the two top leaders in place, but in the Senate some new faces will head the GOP.

GOP challenger Jill Koford has overtaken Rep. Rosemary Lesser, a Democrat, in the race for the District 10 Utah House race, updated vote totals show.

Utah counties already elect their sheriffs, but Amendment C will enshrine the election of the position in the Utah Constitution.

Rep. John Curtis wins Utah's U.S. Senate seat, promising a bipartisan approach while advocating for public lands, energy production, and U.S.-China relations.

Governor Spencer Cox and Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson defended the directive to not post vote totals in Utah until the very last person on election night cast

Some Utah House seats appear in play, according to early vote returns, but a big shakeup in the Republican-dominated Legislature isn't in the offing.

Utahns supported former president Donald Trump more than they did Gov. Spencer Cox in all but two of Utah’s 29 counties, based on early returns from the 2024 election. Trump and Cox were the frontrunners in the race for U.S. President and Utah governor ...