LOGAN – Following a year-long effort to connect with northern Utah voters on a personal level, Democratic candidate Peter Crosby of Providence fell to incumbent U.S. Rep. Blake Moore (R-1st Dist.) in Election Day balloting on Nov. 3.
The local challenger’s proudly grass-roots campaign, which rejected corporate dark money and support from political action committees, lost to the incumbent congressman by nearly 10,000 votes.
“Americans want Washington to focus on making life more affordable and getting back to common sense governing,” Moore said in a social media post following the announcement of his victory in the Nov. 3 balloting.
“And whether you voted for me or not, I want you to know that I’ll continue working hard to represent everyone in northern Utah.”
On Election Night, Crosby was hosting a gathering for his supporters in the Champions Club at Maverick Stadium on the campus of Utah State University.
“This isn’t the end,” he promised them. “We’ve still got a lot of work to do in this community.”
The final ballot count in the 2nd District congressional race was 83,099 votes (49 percent) for Moore and 73,182 ballots (43 percent) for Crosby.
In Salt Lake County, former congressman Ben McAdams carried the new 1st Congressional District by a nearly 3 to 1 margin over Republican hopeful Riley Owen.
Residents of the court-ordered district gave McAdams a total of 102,104 votes for about 72 percent of the ballots cast in that race, while Owen could muster only 35,653 votes (25 percent).
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT) easily won in Utah 3rd Congressional District over environmentalist Kent Udell. The final ballot count in that contest was 60,416 for Maloy (61 percent) compared to 32,345 for Udell (32 percent).
Finally, incumbent Rep. Mike Kennedy (R-UT) defeated challenger Jonny Larsen in the newly created 4th Congressional District.
Kennedy won 49,719 votes (50 percent) in that contest, compared to 42,341 (43 percent) for Larsen.