With strong backing from Utah’s rural voters, a former staffer for Utah Rep. Chris Stewart won a three-way Republican primary in a special election to succeed him after he resigns from office.
Celeste Maloy, a Donald Trump supporter, defeated former state Rep. Becky Edwards in what was a tight race. Businessperson Bruce Hough finished a distant third.
Maloy will be the favorite when she faces Democratic state Sen. Kathleen Riebe in the special general election Nov. 21 in the reliably Republican district. The winner will become the only woman in Utah’s congressional delegation and just the fifth in the state’s history.
