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The Utah House of Representatives is the lower house

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of the Utah State Legislature

Utah State Legislature

The Utah State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. It is a bicameral body, comprising the Utah House of Representatives, with 75 Representatives, and the Utah Senate, with 29 State Senators...

, the state legislature of the U.S. state

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of Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

. The House is composed of 75 representatives elected from single member constituent districts. Each district contains an average population of 35,000 people. Members of the House are elected to two-year terms without term limits

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.

The House convenes at the Utah State Capitol

Utah State Capitol

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in Salt Lake City.

Composition of the House of Representatives

Affiliation	Party		Total

	Republican Utah Republican Party The Utah State Republican Party works to nominate and support the election of Republican candidates in partisan races for public office in the state of Utah...	Democratic Utah Democratic Party The Utah State Democratic Party works to elect Democrats to office in the state of Utah. The Utah Democratic Party, like other national, state, and county parties, maintains a party platform that lists general principles or issues of importance to members of the Utah Democratic Party and maintains...		Vacant
End of previous legislature	53	22	75	0

Begin	58	17	75	0
Latest voting share	77.3%	22.7%

Leadership, 2011-2012 session

Position	Name	Party	District
Speaker of the House Speaker (politics) The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...	Becky Lockhart Rebecca D. Lockhart Rebecca D. "Becky" Lockhart is an American politician and Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives, representing the 64th District in Provo, Utah. Lockhart is the current Speaker of the House in the Utah House of Representatives. She is Utah's first woman Speaker.- Biography...	Republican	74
Majority Leader Majority leader In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.In the federal Congress, the role differs slightly in the two houses. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader of the majority party is elected the Speaker of the...	Brad Dee Brad Dee Bradley L. Dee is an American politician from Utah. A Republican, he is a member of the Utah State House, representing the state's 11th house district in Ogden. He currently serves as the Utah House Majority Leader....	Republican	16
Majority Whip Whip (politics) A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...	Gregory Hughes	Republican	11
Minority Leader Minority leader In U.S. politics, the minority leader is the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body. Given the two-party nature of the U.S. system, the minority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat, with their counterpart being of the opposite party. The position...	David Litvack David Litvack David E. Litvack is a Democratic member of the Utah State House of Representatives, representing the state's 26th house district in central Salt Lake City and part of West Valley City, since 2000...	Democratic	26
Minority Whip Whip (politics) A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...	Jennifer Seelig	Democratic	21

Members of the 59th House of Representatives

District	Name	Party	Residence	Freshman
1	Ronda Menlove	Republican	Garland Garland, Utah Garland is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,400 at the 2010 census.-History:Garland was originally named Sunset and settled in 1890. The first settler was David E. Manning....
2	Lee Perry	Republican	Perry Perry, Utah Perry is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 4,512 at the 2010 census.- History :Perry was originally named Welsh Settlement, but the name was shortly afterward changed to Three Mile Creek. It was renamed after Gustavus Adolphus Perry and his family, who were among...	X
3	Jack Draxler	Republican	North Logan North Logan, Utah North Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 8,269 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area...
4	David Butterfield	Republican	Logan Logan, Utah -Layout of the City:Logan's city grid originates from its Main and Center Street block, with Main Street running north and south, and Center east and west. Each block north, east, south, or west of the origin accumulates in additions of 100 , though some streets have non-numeric names...	X
5	R. Curt Webb	Republican	Logan
6	Brad Galvez	Republican	West Haven West Haven, Utah West Haven is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,976 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated on July 1, 1991, combining the unincorporated communities of Kanesville and Wilson....	X
7	Ryan Wilcox Ryan Wilcox Ryan D. Wilcox serves as a representative in the Utah House of Representatives for District 7.-Political Career:Wilcox has held assignments in Commerce and Workforce Services Appropriation Subcommittee; House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee; House Public Utilities and...	Republican	North Ogden North Ogden, Utah North Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 15,027 at the 2000 census. North Ogden is on SR-235, three miles north of Ogden. It is a suburb of that city and is part of the Ogden –Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:North Ogden was...
8	Gage Froerer	Republican	Huntsville Huntsville, Utah Huntsville is a town in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 649 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
9	Jeremy Peterson	Republican	Ogden	X
10	Dixon Pitcher	Republican	Ogden	X
11	Brad Dee Brad Dee Bradley L. Dee is an American politician from Utah. A Republican, he is a member of the Utah State House, representing the state's 11th house district in Ogden. He currently serves as the Utah House Majority Leader....	Republican	Ogden
12	Richard Greenwood	Republican	Roy Roy, Utah -Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 36,884 people, 10,689 households, and 8,604 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,853 people per square mile . There were 11,053 housing units at an average density of 1,455.3 per square mile...
13	Paul Ray Paul Ray Paul Ray is a member of the Utah House of Representatives in the U.S.. He represents the 13th district which covers North West Davis County. Paul has served since 2001...	Republican	Clearfield Clearfield, Utah Clearfield is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. The population was 25,974 at the 2000 census. The city grew drastically during the 1940s, with the formation of Hill Air Force Base, and in the 1950s with the nation-wide increase in suburb and "bedroom" community populations and has been...
14	Curtis Oda	Republican	Clearfield
15	Brad Wilson	Republican	Kaysville Kaysville, Utah Kaysville is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 20,351 at the 2000 census, and 25,820 as of the 2008 estimates.-History:...	X
16	Steven Handy	Republican	Layton Layton, Utah -External links:*...	X
17	Stewart Barlow	Republican	Fruit Heights Fruit Heights, Utah Fruit Heights is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. One of the suburbs of Farmington and Kaysville, its population was 4,701 at the 2000 census. In 2000, Fruit Heights was the 63rd-largest incorporated place in...
18	Roger Barrus	Republican	Centerville Centerville, Utah Centerville is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 15,335 at the 2010 census...
19	Jim Nielson	Republican	Bountiful Bountiful, Utah Bountiful is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 42,552, a three percent increase over the 2000 figure of 41,301...	X
20	Rebecca Edwards	Republican	Bountiful
21	Douglas Sagers	Republican	Tooele Tooele, Utah Tooele is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 22,502 at the 2000 census, and 30,708 as of the 2009 estimates. It is the county seat of Tooele County...
22	Susan Duckworth	Democratic	Magna Magna, Utah Magna is a census-designated place and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 26,505 at the 2010 census, a moderate increase over the 2000 figure of 22,770...
23	Jennifer Seelig	Democratic	Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
24	Rebecca Chavez-Houck Rebecca Chavez-Houck Rebecca Chavez-Houck is a member of the Utah State House of Representatives.Chavez-Houck has a BA and an MPA both from the University of Utah. She was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Ralph Becker becoming mayor of Salt Lake City in January 2008. Chavez-Houck was elected to a full term in...	Democratic	Salt Lake City
25	Joel Briscoe Joel Briscoe Joel Briscoe is a member of the Utah House of Representatives from Utah. A Democrat, he represents District 25 in Salt Lake City.-Biography:...	Democratic	Salt Lake City	X
26	David Litvack David Litvack David E. Litvack is a Democratic member of the Utah State House of Representatives, representing the state's 26th house district in central Salt Lake City and part of West Valley City, since 2000...	Democratic	Salt Lake City
27	John Dougall	Republican	American Fork American Fork, Utah American Fork is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, at the foot of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range, north of Utah Lake. It is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 26,263 at the 2010 census, nearly a 20% growth since the 2000 census...
28	Brian King	Democratic	Salt Lake City
29	Janice Fisher	Democratic	West Valley City West Valley City, Utah West Valley City is a city in Salt Lake County and a suburb of Salt Lake City in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 129,480 at the 2010 census,...
30	Brian Doughty Brian Doughty Brian Doughty is a member of the Utah House of Representatives, representing the 30th District in Salt Lake County. He was selected on July 16, 2011 by local Democratic delegates to replace state representative Jackie Biskupski, who had resigned when she moved out of the district. He was sworn in...	Democratic	Salt Lake City	X
31	Larry Wiley Larry Wiley Larry B. Wiley is a Democratic member of the Utah State House of Representatives, representing the 31st District since his appointment in January 2005. Wiley attended the University of Utah.-External links:* official UT House profile* profile...	Democratic	West Valley City
32	Fred Cox	Republican	West Valley City	X
33	Neal Henrickson	Democratic	West Valley City
34	Johnny Anderson	Republican	Taylorsville Taylorsville, Utah Taylorsville is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 57,439 at the 2000 census...	X
35	Mark A. Wheatley	Democratic	Murray Murray, Utah Murray is a city situated on the Wasatch Front in the core of Salt Lake Valley in the U.S. state of Utah. Named for territorial governor Eli Murray, it is the state's fourteenth largest city. According to the 2010 census, Murray has approximately 46,746 residents.Murray is close to Salt Lake City,...
36	Patrice Arent	Democratic	Salt Lake City	X
37	Carol Spackman Moss Carol Spackman Moss Carol Spackman Moss is a Democratic member of the Utah State House, representing the state's 37th house district in Holladay since 2000. She served as the Assistant Minority Whip in the Utah House from 2004 to 2010....	Democratic	Salt Lake City
38	Eric Hutchings	Republican	Kearns Kearns, Utah Kearns is a township and census-designated place in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. Named after Utah's U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, it had a population of 35,731 at the 2010 Census.This was a 6.2 percent increase over the 2000 figure of 33,659...
39	James Dunnigan	Republican	Taylorsville Taylorsville, Utah Taylorsville is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 57,439 at the 2000 census...
40	Lynn Hemingway Lynn Hemingway Lynn N. Hemingway is a Democratic member of the Utah State House of Representatives, representing the 40th District in Salt Lake, Utah since 2006.Hemingway studied at Westminster College and the University of Utah.-External links:...	Democratic	Salt Lake City
41	Todd Kiser	Republican	Sandy Sandy, Utah Sandy is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is a suburb of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,461 at the 2010 census, making it the sixth-largest city in Utah....
42	Jim Bird	Republican	West Jordan West Jordan, Utah West Jordan is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. West Jordan is a rapidly growing suburb of Salt Lake City and has a mixed economy. According to the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 103,712, placing it as the fourth most populated in the state. The city occupies the...
43	Wayne Harper	Republican	West Jordan
44	Tim Cosgrove Tim Cosgrove Timothy Michael Cosgrove is a Democratic member of the Utah State House of Representatives, representing the 44th District since 2005. Tim Cosgrove is a graduate of Weber State University with a Bachelors of Science degree in political science. Tim went on to earn his Masters of Arts in Political...	Democratic	Murray Murray, Utah Murray is a city situated on the Wasatch Front in the core of Salt Lake Valley in the U.S. state of Utah. Named for territorial governor Eli Murray, it is the state's fourteenth largest city. According to the 2010 census, Murray has approximately 46,746 residents.Murray is close to Salt Lake City,...
45	Steve Eliason	Republican	Sandy	X
46	Marie Poulson	Democratic	Salt Lake City
47	Ken Ivory	Republican	West Jordan	X
48	LaVar Christensen LaVar Christensen LaVar Christensen is a American politician from Utah, serving as a state representative from the state's 48th district January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2006; January 1, 2011. Christensen was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Utah's 2nd congressional district...	Republican	Draper	X
49	Derek Brown	Republican	Salt Lake City	X
50	Merlynn Newbold	Republican	South Jordan South Jordan, Utah South Jordan is a city in the U.S. state of Utah. The city lies in the Salt Lake Valley between the peaks of the Oquirrh Mountains and the peaks of the Wasatch Mountains and is part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area...
51	Gregory Hughes	Republican	Draper Draper, Utah Draper is a city in Salt Lake and Utah Counties in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Between 1990 and 2000 Draper was Utah's fastest-growing city over 5,000 people . Its population in 1990 was 7,143 and had grown to 25,220 by the 2000 census...
52	Carl Wimmer Carl Wimmer Carl Daniel Wimmer is a member of the Utah House of Representatives and serves from Herriman, Utah, House District 52. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life, education, and law enforcement career:...	Republican	Herriman Herriman, Utah Herriman is a city in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 21,785 as of the 2010 census. Although Herriman was a town in 2000, it has since been classified as a fifth-class city by state law. The city has experienced rapid growth since incorporation in 1999, as its...
53	Melvin Brown	Republican	Coalville Coalville, Utah Coalville is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,382 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Summit County...
54	Kraig Powell	Republican	Heber Heber, Utah Heber City is a city in Wasatch County, Utah, United States. The population was 7,297 at the 2000 census. Heber City was founded by English emigrants who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the late 1850s, and is named after the Mormon apostle Heber C. Kimball. It is...
55	John Mathis	Republican	Vernal Vernal, Utah Vernal, Uintah County's largest city, is located in eastern Utah near the Colorado State Line, and 175 miles east of Salt Lake City. It is bordered on the north by the Uinta Mountains, one of the few mountains ranges in the world which lie in an east-west rather than the usual north to south...
56	Kenneth Sumsion	Republican	American Fork American Fork, Utah American Fork is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, at the foot of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range, north of Utah Lake. It is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 26,263 at the 2010 census, nearly a 20% growth since the 2000 census...
57	Holly Richardson	Republican	Pleasant Grove	X
58	Stephen Sandstrom Stephen Sandstrom Stephen Eric Sandstrom is a member of the Utah House of Representatives. Born in Provo, Utah, Sandstrom is a Latter-day Saint. Sandstrom has a bachelor's degree in political science from Brigham Young University, but has largely worked in architecture. From 1993 to 2006 he served as a member of...	Republican	Orem Orem, Utah Orem is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, in the north-central part of the state. It is adjacent to Provo, Lindon, and Vineyard and is about south of Salt Lake City. Orem is one of the principal cities of the Provo-Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Utah and...
59	Val Peterson	Republican	Orem
60	Bradley Daw	Republican	Orem
61	Keith Grover	Republican	Provo Provo, Utah Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south...
62	Christopher Herrod Christopher Herrod Christopher N. Herrod is a real estate developer and Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives from Provo, representing the 62nd district.- Background :...	Republican	Provo
63	Dean Sanpei	Republican	Provo	X
64	Rebecca D. Lockhart Rebecca D. Lockhart Rebecca D. "Becky" Lockhart is an American politician and Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives, representing the 64th District in Provo, Utah. Lockhart is the current Speaker of the House in the Utah House of Representatives. She is Utah's first woman Speaker.- Biography...	Republican	Provo
65	Francis Gibson	Republican	Springville Springville, Utah Springville is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 20,424 at the 2000 census, while the 2008 estimates placed it at 28,520. Just minutes south of Provo, Springville is a bedroom community for...
66	Michael Morley	Republican	Spanish Fork Spanish Fork, Utah Spanish Fork is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 31,497 as of the 2008 census estimate.-History:Spanish Fork was settled by LDS pioneers in 1851...
67	Patrick Painter	Republican	Nephi Nephi, Utah Nephi is a city in Juab County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,733 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Juab County. It was settled by Mormon pioneers in 1851, and is the principal city in Juab Valley, an...
68	Bill Wright	Republican	Ephraim Ephraim, Utah Ephraim is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, United States. The population was 6,135 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city in Sanpete County. It is the location of Snow College and is located along U.S. Route 89.-History:Ephraim was founded in 1854...
69	Christine Watkins	Democratic	Price Price, Utah Price is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States. The city is home to the USU-College of Eastern Utah, as well as the large USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum affiliated with the college. Price is located within short distances from both Nine Mile Canyon and the Manti-La Sal National Forest...
70	Kay McIff	Republican	Richfield Richfield, Utah Richfield is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Utah, in the United States, and is the largest city in southern-central Utah. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,551. It lies in the Mormon Corridor, just off of Interstate 70 about 40 miles east of its junction with...
71	Bradley Last	Republican	St. George
72	Evan Vickers	Republican	Cedar City Cedar City, Utah As of the census of 2000, there were 20,527 people, 6,486 households, and 4,682 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,021.8 people per square mile . There were 7,109 housing units at an average density of 353.9 per square mile...
73	Michael Noel	Republican	Kanab Kanab, Utah Kanab is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States. The area was first settled in 1864 and the town was founded in 1870 when ten Mormon families moved into the area. The population was 3,564 at the 2000 census...
74	David Clark	Republican	Santa Clara Santa Clara, Utah Santa Clara is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 4,630 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.9 square miles , of which, 4.9 square miles of it is land and 0.04 square miles of it...
75	Don Ipson	Republican	St. George

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Composition of the House of Representatives

Leadership, 2011-2012 session

Members of the 59th House of Representatives

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