primary elections

The losing candidate for state House District 72, Willie Billings, called for the recount and wanted it to be by hand. County elections officials said they couldn’t do that.

Plumb’s primary win was the easy part. There’s still an election, the rest of Senate District 9 and the Republican-led Legislature to worry about.

Washington County election officials say for the first time they’re holding a recount for a razor-thin race, and the losing candidate wants it to be done by hand.

Plumb won’t face a Republican challenger in the general election. Instead, she’ll face an unaffiliated write-in candidate.

Over the last couple of years, the ideological split in the Republican party has become more apparent.

The two-term senator said his victory shows Utahns don’t support Democratic policies and leadership.

After polls closed at 8 p.m. on June 28, every current serving politician kept their race pole positions.

Concerns about election security have led some people to question the mail-in voting system, but it isn’t on every in-person voter’s mind.

Mike Lee wins the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Utah's 2022 primary election. The Associated Press called the race at 8:20 p.m. MDT.

A law passed this year requires all unattended ballot drop boxes to have cameras to ease voter fraud concerns. However, there could be unintended consequences.

Utah's 2022 Senate primary election will be held on June 28. County clerks will start to mail out ballots on June 7.

The GOP-sponsored debate happened the day before the Utah Debate Commission’s event, which Lee declined to participate in.