With polls closed and results released, election season has officially come to a close in the state of Utah.
The Associated Press called the winners for the offices of president, governor, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representatives and for state constitutional amendments through early Wednesday morning. Winners were called before poll reports were completed, a practice not uncommon in election season.
“All of this reporting and analysis is aimed at determining the answer to a single question: Can the trailing candidates catch the leader? Only when the answer is an unquestionable ‘no’ is the race ready to be called,” The Associated Press website stated.
The Associated Press called Tuesday evening that the state’s six electoral college votes went to now President-elect Donald Trump. Unofficial results from the state’s election website and The Associated Press showed that Republican Spencer J. Cox was re-elected as Utah’s governor and Rep. John Curtis, also a Republican, won the seat for U.S. Senate left vacant by Sen. Mitt Romney. Blake Moore, Celeste Maloy, Mike Kennedy and Burgess Owens — all Republicans — were selected for Utah’s four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In other state positions, Derek Brown was elected as Attorney General, Tina Cannon won the bid for State Auditor and Marlo Oaks was chosen as State Treasurer; all three are Republicans. For the Utah Senate and House seats, 72 were won by Republicans and 18 by Democrats. Seven Republicans and one Democrat were elected to the State School Board. For Utah’s judicial district, all judges on the ballot retained their court district positions.
2024 Utah ballots also contained state constitution Amendment B, which would increase school spending through permanent state funds, and Amendment C, which gave citizens the power to vote for county sheriff positions. Both of the amendments passed with majority votes.