Chaffetz leads in 3rd Congressional District

Chaffetz leads in 3rd Congressional District


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SALT LAKE CITY — Chaffetz is currently the projected winner with 76 percent of the votes to Simonson's 23 percent.

Chaffetz was re-elected in Nov. 2010 to his second term in representing Utah's 3rd Congressional District. He has been favored to win a third term in the 2012 elections.

Democrat Soren Simonson jumped into the Congressional race against Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz saying that he wants to offer something different.

Soren Simonson, 3rd District Congressional Democratic Candidate
Soren Simonson, 3rd District Congressional Democratic Candidate

Simonsen is a career architect and urban planner, knowledge he's applied to his years on Salt Lake's City council. Chaffetz is on Budget, and judiciary committees, and chair of the subcommittee on national security homeland defense and foreign operations.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.


U.S. House District 3 Results
CandidateVotes %Winner
Soren Simonsen (DEM)23%
Jason Chaffetz (REP)76%
542 of 574 precincts reporting at 11:59 p.m.
For a complete listing of the election results, click HERE.

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