Utah's 4th congressional district
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Utah's 4th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
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| Current Representative | Mia Love (R–Saratoga Springs) |
| Population (2010) | 745,786 |
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| Cook PVI | R+14 |
Utah's 4th congressional district is a new congressional district created by the state legislature as a result of reapportionment by Congress after the 2010 Census showed population increases in the state relative to other states. Prior to 2010 reapportionment, Utah had three congressional districts.
Some 85 percent of the new district is concentrated in Salt Lake County and it includes a portion of Salt Lake City, which was divided among the four districts; it also includes parts of Utah County, Juab County, and Sanpete County. Candidates first appeared on the 2012 ballot.
As a result of redistricting, the 2012 party candidates included Democratic U.S. Congressman Jim Matheson, who had previously represented Utah's 2nd congressional district 2001–2013. The Republican nominee was Mia Love, mayor of Saratoga Springs and running for Congress for the first time. She is American-born and the daughter of Haitian immigrants. She won the Republican nomination in 2012 over two state representatives, Stephen Sandstrom and Carl Wimmer, at the Republican state convention.
Democratic candidate Matheson narrowly won the election against Love on November 6, 2012, and represented Utah's 4th Congressional District until January 2015. He decided not to seek re-election.
Mia Love ran again for the seat in 2014 and won in the general election, defeating Democratic candidate Doug Owens. She is the first Haitian American and the first black female Republican elected to Congress, and the first black woman elected to Congress from Utah.
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