U.S. House — UT-01 · Utah · 2026
General election · 4 on the certified November ballot · Open seat (no incumbent)
Model rating Leans Republican (Held) on our experimental model — not a poll or a forecast.
No polls on file for this race. Model inputs: 3 of 7, updated today. Sources · What is validated
News attention 50/100 — how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated today. How it works
On the November ballot (2)
Certified by the state on 2026-08-28, checked 2026-09-30.
Also on the certified ballot: Elias Henry Montgomery (Unaffiliated), Jesse West (Libertarian).
Not on the certified ballot (6)
Filed or ran for this seat, but not on the state’s certified list for November.
Official source: https://vote.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-General-Election-Certification.pdf
Latest verified field polling
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Polling average
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Campaign money (FEC)
Candidate committee totals for the cycle from the Federal Election Commission (public domain), as of each committee's latest report.
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | Through |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben McAdams | $2,262,255 | $1,977,908 | $299,350 | 2026-06-30 |
| Derek Kitchen | $59,242 | $59,242 | $0 | 2026-04-09 |
| Eva Lopez Chavez | $52,800 | $52,334 | $466 | 2026-06-30 |
| Kathleen Riebe | $125,124 | $118,854 | $6,270 | 2026-06-30 |
| Liban Mohamed | $352,472 | $274,053 | $78,419 | 2026-06-30 |
| Michael Farrell | $313,062 | $300,293 | $12,769 | 2026-06-30 |
| Nate Blouin | $704,721 | $665,158 | $39,563 | 2026-06-30 |
| Riley Montgomery Owen | $132,533 | $122,965 | $9,568 | 2026-06-30 |
Results
Vote counts as reported by the state; transcribed from the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites the state's official results.
Democratic primary
| Ben McAdams won | 29,737 | 51.9% |
| Nate Blouin | 15,771 | 27.5% |
| Liban Mohamed | 9,542 | 16.7% |
| Michael Farrell | 2,245 | 3.9% |
Source: Wikipedia article revision (CC BY-SA 4.0), retrieved 2026-09-30 · parser wiki-race-1.0.0
Key dates
Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.
- 2026-04-10 — Convention: U.S. House — IAP
- 2026-04-11 — Convention: U.S. House — OTH
- 2026-04-18 — Convention: U.S. House — LIB
- 2026-04-25 — Convention: U.S. House — REP
- 2026-06-23 — Primary election: U.S. House
- 2026-11-03 — General election: U.S. House
Source: FEC election dates (public domain).
Primary and hypothetical polls (2)
Kept on file, never averaged into this race. Polls listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each linked to the pollster's own release.
- Democratic primary · Upswing Research · 2026-05-27–2026-05-29 · n=402 · Ben McAdams (D) 37%, Nate Blouin (D) 27%, Liban Mohamed (D) 13%, Michael Farrell (D) 7% · release
- Democratic primary · Data for Progress (partisan) · 2026-03-23–2026-03-26 · n=381 · Ben McAdams (D) 36%, Nate Blouin (D) 23%, Eva Lopez Chavez (D) 7%, Kathleen Riebe (D) 7%, Liban Mohamed (D) 2% · release
In the news
- McAdams offers a check on Trump. Owen offers a new kind of Republican. Utah voters will decide
- After push in D.C. to relax surrogacy laws, Utah congressmen says power should rest with states
- Young Democrats are embracing ‘democratic socialism.’ Should you be worried?
Headlines from outlets across the political spectrum, linked to the publisher. Vugol.me doesn’t write or endorse them. How we choose them · All election news
Signals (experimental)
Attention 50 Vector R · Held
Vugol Me Attention (attention intensity)
Attention intensity index 0–100 · not a poll · normalized nightly
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Daily precision telemetry
Per-source daily series, CSV export and Vector inputs · paid plans
Sources
- Roster — official filings; fundraising from FEC datapoints where on file (https://api.open.fec.gov/).
- Attention inputs — Wikipedia pageviews (https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/) and GDELT news volume and tone (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
- Polls and results — individual polls and primary results listed on the Wikipedia election article (CC BY-SA 4.0), each poll linked to the pollster's release; money and election dates from the FEC (public domain). How rows are checked.
- Models pulse-1.0.0 · vector-1.1.0 · attention inputs SHA-256 0ff0ec649e71 · methodology · license CC BY 4.0 (data license).
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