Things are moving fast in Utah’s rush to redraw its congressional boundaries ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Below is a brief explainer of what led up to this point, where things stand, where they’re headed and why it matters.

Question: How did we get here?

In a nutshell, in 2018, voters narrowly approved the Better Boundaries initiative (also known as Proposition 4) that, among other things, set up the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission and prohibited partisan gerrymandering — drawing political boundaries to benefit one party to the detriment of another.

The Legislature substantially repealed the initiative in 2020 and adopted maps that split Democratic areas in Salt Lake County into four different congressional districts, thus creating four safe Republican U.S. House

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