- Salt Lake City Council elections feature incumbents and challengers in key districts.
- South Salt Lake, Midvale and Millcreek also have ranked choice voting.
SALT LAKE CITY — Most Utah cities held primary elections for city officials earlier this month, but the races are just getting started in several municipalities using ranked-choice voting this fall.
Because ranked-choice voting allows cities to skip the primary election and have all registered candidates advance to the Nov. 4 general election, candidates in those cities had until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to declare themselves on the ballot.
With the filing deadline behind us, here's who is running for city offices in the handful of municipalities still using ranked-choice voting:
Salt Lake City
More than half of Salt Lake City Council's seats are up for grabs this year, with at least one shakeup guaranteed this November. Salt Lake City Councilman Darin Mano, who has represented District 5 since 2020, is not seeking reelection.
Public safety and transportation impacts figure to be some of the key issues in this year's election, especially after the implementation of the city's public safety plan, the passage of a state-ordered traffic study of the city and several transportation construction projects. Those have had impacts on the four districts with elections this year.
That's on top of rising housing costs and other challenges associated with being both the state's most populated and fastest-growing city.
District 1: Incumbent Councilwoman Victoria Petro has filed to run for reelection in Salt Lake City's 1st District. She is being challenged by Yussuf Abdi and Stephen Otterstrom to represent the northwest corner of the capital city, which includes Rose Park and Jordan Meadows.
District 3: Chris Wharton is defending his seat representing Capitol Hill and the Greater Avenues against four challengers: David Berg, Blake McClary, Jake Seastrand and Liddy Huntsman.
District 5: District 5 will have a new council member following the November election, as \Mano is not running for reelection in the district representing parts of Central 9th, Ballpark, Liberty Wells and East Liberty Park. Erika Carlsen, Amy Hawkins and Vance Hansen are all running to replace Mano.
District 7: Councilwoman Sarah Young is seeking reelection and is running unopposed to represent Sugar House.
South Salt Lake
Mayor: Incumbent Mayor Cherie Wood is seeking another term in office but is being challenged by Brittany Karzen.
District 2: Councilwoman Corey Thomas is running for reelection unopposed.
District 3: Councilwoman Sharla Bynum is seeking another term representing District 3. Aileen Hampton is challenging her.
Council At-Large: Councilwoman Clarissa Williams is running for reelection unopposed.
Council At-Large: Conrad Campos is challenging incumbent Councilman Ray deWolfe in a special election for the city's other at-large seat.
Midvale
Mayor: Mayor Dustin Gettel is seeking his first full term in office after being appointed to the position late last year. He is running against Brandee Boyer and David Fair.
District 4: Rainer Lilbok is challenging incumbent Councilman Bryant Brown for the District 4 seat on the City Council.
District 5: Incumbent Councilwoman Denece Mikolash is running for reelection against Jamie Steverson.
Millcreek
District 2: Councilman Thom DeSirant is running for reelection against Angie Gray.
District 4: Connor Jett Gale is challenging incumbent Councilwoman Bev Uipi for a seat on the City Council.
