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Utah is the heavily Republican completely Mormon dominated state in the West.

1 Introduction
2 Congressional Delegation
3 State Government
4 Cities & Counties
5 Elections
6 Drug War
7 Utah News, Etc
8 Political Blogs
9 See also

Introduction

The state legislature is heavily Republican but there are Democratic strongholds in the Salt Lake City area, and in Carbon County (Price) and San Juan County (Moab) in the southeastern part of the state. The mayor of Salt Lake City is [[Ralph Becker, Jr.] (D).

Utah's politics are closely tied with the state's status as the headquarters of and strongest base of membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a/k/a, the "Mormons". This has led to some unusual shifts in party affiliation at various times in the state's history. Currently, Mormons tend Republican in their voting but this was not always the case. During the early 20th century they tended Democratic. This changed starting in the 1950s when Dwight Eisenhower appointed a Mormon leader as his Secretary of Agriculture and continued when Jerry Falwell and other religious right leaders courted Mormons as part of their New Right coalition during the 1980s. However, Mormons despite their socially conservative views cannot be considered a staunch part of the religious right nor even the conservative coalition, and the current alliance is an uneasy one at best. The three counties (Salt Lake, Carbon, and San Juan) with Democratic strongholds are not coincidentally, the only three counties in Utah where the percentage of Mormons is below 50%.

Congressional Delegation

Senate
- Senior Senator: Orrin Hatch (R)
- Junior Senator: Mike Lee (R)

House of Representatives
- UT-01 Rep.: Rob Bishop (R)
- UT-02 Rep.: Jim Matheson (D)
- UT-03 Rep.: Jason Chaffetz (R)

US Congressional Delegations from Utah (Wikipedia)

State Government

Executive Branch
- Governor: Gary Herbert (R)
- Lt.Gov: Greg Bell (R)
- Treasurer : Richard Ellis (R)
- Attorney General: Mark Shurtleff (R)
- Auditor: Auston G. Johnson

Legislative Branch
- Utah State Legislature

Judicial Branch
- Utah Judiciary

Utah State Constitution
- Utah State Constitution

Cities & Counties

Elections

Election Results
Utah State Elections Office (Lt. Governor's Office)
Utah election results
see U.S. elections

Drug War

Weldon H. Angelos

Utah News, Etc

Utah Newspapers (NewsLink.org)
Newspapers and News Media Guide(ABYZ News Links)
Politicians On The Issues (OnTheIssues.org)

Political Blogs

Democrats: DNC, DSCC, DCCC, Young Democrats of America, College Democrats of America

Activist organizations: Democracy for America, USDemocrat Network, Progressive Democrats of America, Progressive Majority

Important U.S. elections: United States presidential election, 2004, United States elections, 2008

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