The 2024 Utah House of Representatives elections were held on November 5, 2024, as part of the biennial 2024 United States elections. All 75 seats in the Utah House of Representatives were up for election for the 66th Legislature. The filing deadline for candidates was January 8, 2024. Primary elections were held on June 24, 2024. The elections coincided with elections for other offices in Utah, including for Governor, US Senate, US House, and the Utah Senate.
Partisan background In the 2020 presidential election in Utah, Republican Donald Trump won the most votes in 58 House of Representatives Districts and Democrat Joe Biden won the most votes in 17 districts. Going into the 2024 Utah House of Representatives election, Democrats represented one district where Trump won the most votes in 2020: District 10, located in Ogden ( Trump + 3%). Going into the election, Republicans represented four districts where Biden won the most votes in 2020, all located in the suburbs of Salt Lake County: District 26 ( Biden + 4%); District 30 (Biden + 6%); District 42 (Biden + 0.08%) and District 43 (Biden + 5%).
Retirements Thirteen incumbents did not seek re-election.
Republicans District 3: Dan Johnson is retiring. District 9: Cal Musselman is retiring to run for State Senate. District 28: Tim Jimenez is retiring. District 30: Judy Weeks-Rohner is retiring to run for State Senate. District 42: Robert Spendlove is retiring. District 45: Susan Pulsipher is retiring. District 48: Jay Cobb is retiring. District 58: Keven Stratton is retiring to run for State Senate. District 61: Marsha Judkins is retiring. District 66: Steven Lund is retiring. District 69: Phil Lyman is retiring to run for Governor.
Democrats District 23: Brian King is retiring to run for Governor. District 35: Mark Wheatley is retiring.
Incumbents defeated
At convention One incumbent representative was defeated in the March 30 Salt Lake County Democratic convention.
Democrats District 31: Brett Garner lost nomination to a full term to Verona Mauga.
In primary election Two incumbent representatives, one Democrat and one Republican, were defeated in the June 25 primary election.
Democrats District 24: Joel Briscoe lost renomination to Grant Miller.
Republicans District 46: Jeff Stenquist lost renomination to Cal Roberts.
Predictions SourceRankingAs ofCNalysisMarch 26, 2024
Summary + Summary of the November 5, 2024 Utah House of Representatives election Party Candidates Votes Seats % Before Up Won After +/– Republican 74 944,629 69.94% 61 61 61 61 Democratic 50 372,020 27.54% 14 14 14 14 United Utah 7 11,859 0.88% 0 0 0 0 Utah Forward 3 4,783 0.35% 0 0 0 0 Constitution 2 1,560 0.12% 0 0 0 0 Libertarian 2 4,725 0.35% 0 0 0 0 Independent 2 14,100 1.04% 0 0 0 0 Total1,350,688100.0% 75 75 75 75
Close races Districts where the margin of victory was under 10%:
Uncontested elections In the following districts, only one candidate filed to run before the deadline:
Republicans HD 7 – Ryan Wilcox, incumbent HD 8 – Jason Kyle, incumbent HD 11 – Katy Hall, incumbent HD 14 – Karianne Lisonbee, incumbent HD 36 – Jim Dunnigan, speaker pro tempore, incumbent HD 50 – Stephanie Gricius, incumbent HD 51 – Jefferson Moss, majority leader, incumbent HD 54 – Brady Brammer, incumbent HD 55 – Jon Hawkins, incumbent HD 56 – Val Peterson, incumbent HD 60 – Tyler Clancy, incumbent HD 72 – Joseph Elison, incumbent HD 73 – Colin Jack, incumbent HD 74 – Neil Walter, incumbent
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Democratic primary Candidates Claudia Bigler Chris Reid (eliminated at convention)
Republican primary Candidate Thomas Peterson, incumbent
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House District 2 Democratic primary Candidate Tom Liljegren
Republican primary Candidates Mike Monson Michael Petersen, incumbent
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House District 3 Republican primary Candidates Jason Thompson Paul Borup
Independents Candidate Patrick Belmont
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House District 4 Democratic primary Candidate Kris Campbell Republican primary Candidate Kera Birkeland (incumbent) General election
House District 5 Republican primary Candidate Casey Snider (incumbent) Utah Forward primary Candidate Cary Youmans General election
House District 6 Democratic primary Candidate Amber Hardy Republican primary Candidates Jon Beesley Matthew Gwynn (incumbent)
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House District 7 Incumbent Ryan Wilcox is running unopposed in both the Republican primary and the general election.
House District 8 Incumbent Jason Kyle is running unopposed in both the Republican primary and the general election.
House District 9 Democratic primary Candidate Angela Choberka Libertarian primary Candidate Jacob Johnson Republican primary Candidate Jake Sawyer General election
House District 10 Democratic primary Candidate Rosemary Lesser (incumbent)
Republican primary Candidates Jill Koford Nacho Valdez
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House District 11 Incumbent Katy Hall is running unopposed in both the Republican primary and the general election.
House District 12 Democratic primary Candidate Sharon Hilton Republican primary Candidates Korry Green Mike Schultz (incumbent)
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House District 13 Democratic primary Candidate Lorri Rogers Republican primary Candidates Curtis Beames Karen M. Peterson (incumbent)
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House District 14 Incumbent Karianne Lisonbee is running unopposed in both the Republican primary and the general election.
House District 15 Republican primary Candidate Ariel Defay (incumbent) Utah Forward primary Candidate Josh Smith General election
House District 16 Republican primary Candidates Trevor Lee (incumbent) Daniela Harding Democratic primary Candidate Zeaid Hasan
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House District 17 Republican primary Candidates Stewart Barlow (incumbent) Jennifer Garner Libertarian primary Candidate Adam Feller
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House District 18 Republican primary Candidate Paul Culter (incumbent) Democratic primary Candidates Steve Hartwick Mark Whitaker
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House District 19 Republican primary Candidates Raymond Ward (incumbent) Tenna Hartman Democratic primary Candidates Erik Hans Fronberg Nick Wadsworth Constitution primary Candidate Cameron Dransfield
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House District 20 Republican primary Candidate Melissa Garff Ballard (incumbent) Democratic primary Candidate Lew Jeppson
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House District 21 Republican primary Candidates David Atkin Taylor Aaron Bunot Democratic primary Candidate Sandra Hollins (incumbent)
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House District 22 Republican primary Candidate Steve Harmsen Democratic primary Candidates Jennifer Dailey-Provost (incumbent) Jakey Sala Siolo
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House District 23 Republican primary Candidate M. Scott Romney Democratic primary Candidates Jeff Howell Hoang Nguyen United Utah primary Candidate Cabot Wm. Nelson
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House District 24 Republican primary Candidate David R. Spjut Democratic primary Candidates Joel Briscoe (incumbent) Ramón Barthelemy Grant Amjad Miller
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House District 25 Republican primary Candidates Richard Nowak 'Alama 'Ulu'ave Democratic primary Candidate Angela Romero (incumbent)
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House District 26 Republican primary Candidate Matt MacPherson (incumbent) Democratic primary Candidate Jeanetta Williams
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House District 27 Republican primary Candidate Anthony Edward Loubet Democratic primary Candidate Dawn Stevenson
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House District 28 Republican primary Candidates Nicholeen P. Peck Timothy Adrian Jimenez (withdrew) Democratic primary Candidate Fred L Baker
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House District 29 Republican primary Candidate Bridger Bolinder Democratic primary Candidates Ron Draper Brad Bartholomew (withdrew)
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House District 30 Republican primary Candidate Fred Cox Dave Parke Cindy Thompson
Democratic primary Candidate Jake Fitisemanu Sophia Hawes-Tingey
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House District 31 Republican primary Candidate Bill Swan Andrew G. Nieto (withdrew) Russ Moore (withdrew) Democratic primary Candidate Verona Mauga Brett Gardner
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House District 32 Republican primary Candidate Sarah Dawn Montes Jerry Schmidt (withdrew) Democratic primary Candidate Sahara Hayes United Utah primary Candidate Adam Christopher Bean (withdrew)
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House District 33 Republican primary Candidate Sheryl R Fraser Henry Billy Malone Democratic primary Candidate Doug Owens
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House District 34 Republican primary Candidate Karl J. Jurek Democratic primary Candidate Carol Spackman Moss United Utah primary Candidate Dennis Roach
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See also 2024 Utah gubernatorial election 2024 Utah Senate election 2024 United States Senate election in Utah 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah Notes
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