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In November, roughly one out of every three Utahns voted for a Democrat to represent them in the state and federal Houses of Representatives.
But up at the Utah Legislature, only one-fifth of the House chamber are members of the state s minority party. And following January s swearing-in of Congressman Burgess Owens, Democrats are completely shut out of the state s federal delegation.
The disparity is nothing new. For the last decade if not longer Democratic candidates have regularly received around a third of the state s votes while winning considerably fewer than a third of Utah s electoral districts.
And that s unlikely to change when new districts are drawn this year, according to local political scientists, even with the unknown variable of a new independent redistricting commission that will recommend maps to lawmakers in what is ostensibly a check on gerrymandering, or the strategic and intentional grouping of voters to induce an electoral outcome. ....

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