This map is a gerrymander, combining southern Utah with the metropolitan Salt Lake County splitting it so none of the districts are competitive is a gerrymander, Do Better!

St. George with Salt Lake City is a gerrymander. It was in 2012, it was in 2022, and it still is in 2025. This map looks clean but the end result is strongly Republican favored. It has a lot in common with other Republican gerrymanders enacted this year in that respect, cleaning up the look of the map while being no less gerrymandered than what came before. This map very clearly is drawn with intent to favor the Republican party and deny the residents of the Salt Lake area a voice.

Note: This comment contains no partisan info pertaining to Utah and thus can be shared with the full committee. The author of this map submitted a map to the Texas legislature during their mid-decade redistricting earlier this year, a map that was characterized by media outlets at the time as a map that would have helped Republicans substantially compared to Texas' current map at the time.

This map is better than any of the 5 the legislature has proposed but once again Salt Lake City is diluted with rural western and southern Utah. Not fair to either group.