Utah's 4th congressional district

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]

Utah's 4th congressional district
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	83.7% White 16.45% Hispanic 7.17% other 2.99% Asian 1.67% Black 0.76% Native American
Cook PVI	R+13[2]

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.[2] In 2020, Republican Burgess Owens narrowly defeated McAdams to regain the congressional seat for the Republican Party.

Recent election results from statewide races

Source: "Presidential Election Results, by district" – via Daily Kos.

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
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	Saratoga Springs	Republican	January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2019	114th 115th	Elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Lost re-election.
Ben McAdams	Salt Lake City	Democratic	January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2021	116th	Elected in 2018. Lost re-election.
Burgess Owens	Salt Lake City	Republican	January 3, 2021 – Present	117th	Elected in 2020.

Election results

2012

2012 election results[10]

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[11]

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[12]

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[13]

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[14]

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[lower-alpha 1]
	Republican gain from Democratic

References

1. "My Congressional District, Utah - Congressional District 4". Bureau of Census.
2. "PVI Map and District List". The Cook Political Report. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
3. "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. 2012 Preliminary Election Results, Clerk of the House
11. "Utah Election Results". The New York Times. December 17, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
12. "Utah U.S. House 4th District". The New York Times. November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
13. "US Congressional District 4". Utah Election Preliminary Results. 2018.
14. https://electionresults.utah.gov/elections/uscongress/4

Notes

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