SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah judge ruled late Monday that a map drawn by state lawmakers and submitted by the Utah Legislature unfairly favored Republicans.

Judge Dianna Gibson of Utah’s 3rd District Court made the late-night ruling and selected a map, referred to as “Map 1,” brought by plaintiffs in the case: the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government . The ruling narrowly upheld the Nov. 10 deadline to select a new map in the state ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

The map drawn by lawmakers, referred to as “ Map C ,” was submitted to the court in September after Gibson initially ordered the existing map be redrawn to better align with the state’s redistricting law, Proposition 4.

Map 1 was drawn to include nearly the whole of Salt Lake County, w

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