On election night, Celeste Maloy said ‘Rural communities are going to get this done!’ She wasn’t wrong. Voters in rural Utah counties showed up in high numbers to vote for Maloy.
On election night, Celeste Maloy said ‘Rural communities are going to get this done!’ She wasn’t wrong.
Wayne and Garfield counties — where Maloy received 56.6% and 72.9% of the vote, respectively — tied for the highest voter turnout in Utah’s 2nd district at 54.2%. The next highest was Becky Edwards’ home county, Davis, at 52.6%.Ballots cast in the 10 least populated counties combined to outnumber two of the three most populated — Davis and Salt Lake. Southernmost Washington County, where Maloy previously worked and won by nearly 8 percentage points, had the highest number of voters.
Much of Maloy’s campaign focused on the rural vote — she played up her small-town roots, background in agriculture and history advocating for local control of open lands. When two other candidates were added to the Republican primary ballot, shein the district, not just the more heavily populated ones along the Wasatch Front.
. The contributions to the one supporting Maloy, seemingly organized specifically for this election, appeared to reflect some of the rural support she was pursuing.show that $20,000 of its funds came from Salina-based Utah Independent Bank, and another $50,000 was donated by the Utah Agricultural Political Action Committee. The super PAC bought ads supporting Maloy, and opposing her opponents.
“Having a candidate from these rural areas I think empowered the rural communities to show up and be represented in ways they haven’t been before,” Hargreaves said., approximately 21.6% of agricultural producers live in the 10 counties that fall entirely in the 2nd District.
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