All five of the congressional maps proposed by Utah’s Legislative Redistricting Committee include at least one competitive seat, according to an analysis of recent voting data by The Salt Lake Tribune, posing at least a possibility of the state sending a Democrat to Washington for the first time since Rep. Ben McAdams’ defeat in 2020.

While the vast majority of the seats favor Republicans, which is to be expected in a conservative state, each of the newly proposed maps would give a strong Democratic candidate a fighting chance — a better opportunity than the party has seen since at least the 2010 redistricting cycle.

How we did it

The Tribune uploaded the maps into an online tool called Redistricter , which provides the district-by-district results for each of the maps over multiple

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