Report analyzes the political impact of 3 Utah congressional maps being weighed by judge

A new analysis breaks down the political implications of three proposed congressional maps that have been submitted to a Utah judge for consideration — one from Utah lawmakers and two from the plaintiffs in the ongoing redistricting lawsuit against the state.

The three biggest takeaways from the report by the Better Utah Institute — a nonpartisan nonprofit that is related to the progressive advocacy group Alliance for a Better Utah — come down to the following:

The Utah Legislature’s map, Option C, “keeps the current partisan skew intact – uncompetitive, tilted strongly Republican, with a glaring efficiency gap.”

The plaintiffs’ Map 1 “corrects the partisan imbalance neatly by creating one safe Democratic district and three safe Republican ones,” the report says. “It’s fairer by the num