Utah GOP legislative race summary: Results of convention instant runoff voting selection process on May 8, 2004.
Published May 9th 2004 in Deseret Morning News
State Republican and Democratic party delegates voted Saturday on nominees for several state Senate and House races. Candidates had to win at least 60 percent of the vote to be nominated outright; otherwise, the two top vote-getters face a primary in June. The results for contested seats are as follows:

DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE

      • HOUSE
      — District 25 (Salt Lake and Summit counties): Ross Romero

GOP NOMINEES

      • SENATE
      — District 13 (Salt Lake and Tooele counties): Mark Madsen
      — District 27 (Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan and Utah counties): Phillip Peay

      • HOUSE
      — District 54 (Duchesne, Uintah and Wasatch counties): Gordon Snow
      — District 55 (Grand and Uintah counties): John Mathis
      — District 67 (Carbon, Juan, Sanpete and Utah counties): Patrick Painter
      — District 70 (Emery, Sanpete and Sevier counties): Brad Johnson

GOP PRIMARIES

      • SENATE
      — District 19 (Morgan, Summit and Weber counties): Gage Froerer vs. Allen Christensen
      — District 24 (Juab, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele and Wayne counties): Darin Petersen vs. Leonard Blackham (incumbent)
IRV Soars in Twin Cities, FairVote Corrects the Pundits on Meaning of Election Night '09
Election Day '09 was a roller-coaster for election reformers.  Instant runoff voting had a great night in Minnesota, where St. Paul voters chose to implement IRV for its city elections, and Minneapolis voters used IRV for the first time—with local media touting it as a big success. As the Star-Tribune noted in endorsing IRV for St. Paul, Tuesday’s elections give the Twin Cities a chance to show the whole state of Minnesota the benefits of adopting IRV. There were disappointments in Lowell and Pierce County too, but high-profile multi-candidate races in New Jersey and New York keep policymakers focused on ways to reform elections;  the Baltimore Sun and Miami Herald were among many newspapers publishing commentary from FairVote board member and former presidential candidate John Anderson on how IRV can mitigate the problems of plurality elections.

And as pundits try to make hay out of the national implications of Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections, Rob Richie in the Huffington Post concludes that the gubernatorial elections have little bearing on federal elections.

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