Source notes · U.S. House by county, 2022 vs 2026
Utah: sources, checks and caveats
File: UT.csv (29 counties). Columns: d = Democratic, r = Republican, o = all other U.S. House votes (Libertarian, Constitution, Independent American, United Utah, unaffiliated, and write-ins). Votes are summed over every U.S. House district contest in the county.
Sources
- 2022 (certified): Utah Lieutenant Governor, signed 2022 General Election State Canvass, https://vote.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Signed-2022-General-Election-State-Canvass-Certification.pdf (linked from https://vote.utah.gov/historical-election-results/). The PDF is a scanned image with no text layer, so the county-by-candidate figures for U.S. House Districts 1–4 (PDF pages 4–7) were transcribed by hand from the page images. Check: every candidate column adds up to the canvass's printed candidate total, and every district's D, R and other add up to the FEC certified figures exactly. The transcription is kept in the work file
ut22_canvass_transcribed.csv in the scratchpad. OpenElections' 2022 Utah precinct file was not used, because it is missing Weber County for CD1 and is short about 24,000 D votes.
- 2026 (unofficial): Utah Lt. Governor results (Enhanced Voting), https://electionresults.utah.gov/results/public/Utah/elections/General11032026. API
.../results/public/api/elections/Utah/General11032026/data/ballot-item/{id} for "U.S. House District 1–4", with county breakdown.
As of: election asOf 2026-11-10 00:51:40 UTC (7:51 pm ET Nov 9). Last data upload 00:27:05 UTC.
- FIPS: Census
national_county2020.txt.
Validation (sum of county rows vs statewide totals)
| Year |
Column |
Our sum |
Reference |
Diff |
| 2022 |
D |
342,078 |
342,078 (FEC) |
0 |
| 2022 |
R |
670,924 |
670,924 |
0 |
| 2022 |
Other |
50,256 |
50,256 |
0 |
| 2026 |
D |
473,768 |
473,511 (Nov 9 6:10 pm ET aggregate) |
+257 |
| 2026 |
R |
478,300 |
478,175 |
+125 |
| 2026 |
Other |
68,138 |
(not reported) |
— |
Per-district 2022 checks against the FEC: CD1 D 87,986 / R 178,434. CD2 D 88,224 / R 154,883 / other 16,292. CD3 D 83,687 / R 182,497 / other 17,196. CD4 D 82,181 / R 155,110 / other 16,768. All match. The FEC marks Stewart (CD2) and Owens (CD4) as "R*". They are ordinary Republican nominees and are counted as R here, which matches the national aggregate statewide total. The 2026 gap comes from a slightly newer snapshot.
Districts without a D or R candidate
- 2022: none. All 4 districts had a DEM and a REP nominee.
- 2026: none. All 4 districts had a DEM and a REP nominee.
Caveats
- Redistricting: Utah's congressional map changed for 2026 under the court-ordered remedial map. For example, the new CD1 lies entirely in Salt Lake County, while in 2022 Salt Lake was split among all four districts. County totals can be compared across years, but which districts a county belongs to differs: in 2026 Salt Lake, Weber and Utah counties are split, and in 2022 Davis, Juab, Salt Lake, Summit and Utah were split.
- 2026 numbers are unofficial. Utah counts mail ballots for days after the election, and the canvass is due about two weeks after it.
- 2022 values come from a hand transcription of a scanned document. The column checks above leave little room for error, but two errors in the same candidate column that cancel out could not be detected.
These notes record where each number came from and how it was checked. 2026 figures are unofficial. See the methodology and disclaimer.