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The 2016 Utah general elections were held in the
U.S. state
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of Utah
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on November 8, 2016. Utah's governor
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and lieutenant governor
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, attorney general
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, auditor
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, and treasurer
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Government
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were elected, as well as one of Utah's U.S. Senate
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seats and all four seats in the United States House of Representatives
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, fifteen Utah Senate
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seats and all of the Utah House of Representatives
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seats. Primary election
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s were held on June 28, 2016.
Federal offices
U.S. Senate
Incumbent Republican senatorMike Lee
Michael Shumway Lee (born June 4, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee became Utah's senior senator in 2019, whe ...
was re-elected to a second term.
Misty Snow won the Democratic nomination, and the first transgender woman
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in the history of the United States to become a major party's nominee for the Senate.
U.S. House of Representatives
All of Utah's four seats in theUnited States House of Representatives
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were up for election in November.
State offices
Executive
Governor and lieutenant governor
Incumbent Republican governorGary Herbert
Gary Richard Herbert (born May 7, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 17th governor of Utah from 2009 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the National Governors Association during the 2015–2016 cycle.
Herbert w ...
was re-elected to a third term in office. Spencer Cox
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was Herbert's running mate.
Michael Weinholtz, former chairman and CEO of CHG Healthcare Services
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, ran as a Democrat
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. Kim Bowman, division manager at University of Utah Health Sciences, is Weinholtz's running mate.
Administrative
Attorney general
=Candidates
= *Sean Reyes
Sean David Reyes (born February 16, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the Attorney General of Utah from 2013 to 2025. Appointed to the office by Governor Gary Herbert following the resignation of John Swallow, Reyes w ...
, incumbent ( R)
* Jon Harper, private practice lawyer ( D)
* Andrew McCullough, private practice lawyer ( L)
* Michael Isbell, private practice lawyer (IAP)
Auditor
=Candidates
= * John Dougall, incumbent ( R) * Mike Mitchell, accountant ( D) * Jared Green,FedEx
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employee (IAP)
Treasurer
=Candidates
= *David Damschen
David C. Damschen is an American politician from the state of Utah. A member of the Republican Party, Damschen was the Utah State Treasurer.
Damschen worked for American West Bank and U.S. Bank, and then became the chief deputy to Richard Ell ...
, incumbent ( R)
* Neil Hansen, former state representative ( D)
* Richard Proctor, retired economist ( C)
Legislative
Utah State Senate
FifteenUtah State Senate
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seats were filled in 2016.
Utah House of Representatives
All 75 seats in theUtah House of Representatives
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were filled in 2016.
References
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