This year's filing deadline for candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Utah was March 13, 2026. 

These elections are the first to take place since Third District Court Judge Dianna Gibson struck down the congressional map the Utah Legislature adopted in 2021 in League of Women Voters v. Utah State Legislature. Gibson also ordered the plaintiffs in the case and the Legislature to submit new maps for the 2026 election cycle to her for consideration.

Gibson rejected the Legislature's proposed congressional map, which would have maintained four Republican-leaning districts, in favor of a proposal from the plaintiffs that added one Democratic-leaning district.

As a result of the new map, three incumbents are running in different districts than they currently represent:

• Blake Moore (R-1st) is running in the 2nd Congressional District.
• Celeste Maloy (R-2nd) is running in the 3rd Congressional District.
• Mike Kennedy (R-3rd) is running in the 4th Congressional District.

The state's fourth incumbent, Rep. Burgess Owens (R-4th), is retiring from public office, leaving the 1st Congressional District open. There was one open district in 2024, none in 2022, one in 2020, none in 2018, none in 2016, and one in 2014.

The open 1st Congressional District has attracted the most candidates. Five candidates — four Democrats and one Republican — are running for the district.

Of the incumbents running for re-election this year, two — Moore and Maloy — are running in contested primaries this year. There were two incumbents in contested primaries in 2024, four in 2022, none in 2020, one in 2018, two in 2016, and three in 2014.

In total, three primaries — one Democratic and two Republican — are contested this year. In total, there were three contested primaries in 2024, four in 2022, three in 2020, two in 2018, two in 2016, and six in 2014.

Thirteen candidates — seven Democrats and six Republicans — are running for Utah's four congressional districts. That's 3.3 candidates per district. There were 3.3 candidates per district in 2024, 3.3 in 2022, 3.8 in 2020, 2.5 in 2018, 2.5 in 2016, and 4.3 in 2014.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all four districts, meaning no districts are guaranteed to either party.

Utah and two other states — Maryland and New York — are holding U.S. House primaries on June 23, 2026.

In Utah, primary elections are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate with the highest number of votes wins even if they did not win an outright majority of votes cast.