US EditionUtah GOP redistricting push fails to make ballot
A coordinated campaign led by Better Boundaries convinced nearly 1,000 voters to remove signatures, causing the GOP initiative to miss the ballot by 258 signatures in Senate District 15.
- A proposal to repeal a 2018 redistricting measure failed to make the Utah ballot, according to reports.
- The Republican Party vowed to continue the fight to repeal the redistricting measure through litigation or future initiatives.
- The current map splits Democratic-leaning Salt Lake City into multiple Republican-favored districts, but a new map will create a Democratic-favored district.
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Trump-endorsed effort to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law fails to make the ballot
Utah's new congressional map, which gives Democrats a high likelihood of picking up a U.S. House seat in the Salt Lake City area, is likely to remain in place beyond this election cycle because a Republican-led initiative to repeal the state's anti-gerrymandering law failed to make the November ballot.
Effort to repeal Utah anti-gerrymandering law falls short after losing signatures
Protesters rally in support of Proposition 4 in the rotunda of the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)The effort to ask Utah voters this fall to repeal an anti-gerrymandering law they approved in 2018 appears to have fallen short. Thousands of the GOP-led petition signers have removed their signatures across the state — including hundreds in a key Senate district that dr…
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