{"id":598508,"date":"2023-11-22T06:13:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T03:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/republican-celeste-maloy-wins-utah-special-house-election\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T06:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T03:13:34","slug":"republican-celeste-maloy-wins-utah-special-house-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/republican-celeste-maloy-wins-utah-special-house-election\/","title":{"rendered":"#Republican Celeste Maloy wins Utah special House election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/MaloyCeleste.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Republican Celeste Maloy was projected to win a Thanksgiving-week special election for the open U.S. House seat in Utah left vacant by her former boss, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), according to Decision Desk HQ.<\/p>\n<p>She beat out state Sen. Kathleen Riebe (D), the No. 2 Democrat in the Utah Senate, keeping the Utah second congressional district seat in Republican hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Maloy and Riebe were vying to fill the House vacancy after Stewart resigned earlier this year, citing concerns for his wife\u2019s health. Maloy previously worked for Stewart\u2019s congressional office as chief legal counsel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Republican candidate was largely expected to win the seat on Tuesday, given her link to Stewart and the GOP\u2019s success in the state. Former President Trump won Utah in both 2016 and 2020, and voters in the second congressional district had voted Stewart in to six terms in office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Maloy has also been faced with some controversy in the state because she did not cast a ballot in the 2020 and 2022 elections, according to<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2023\/06\/28\/anger-frustration-maybe-lawsuit\/\">\u00a0reporting<\/a>\u00a0from The Salt Lake Tribune.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maloy will join Utah\u2019s three other House lawmakers, all Republican, and its two GOP senators in the state\u2019s congressional delegation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The district\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/GIS\/findDistrict.jsp\">spans<\/a>\u00a0much of the western and southern parts of the state, plus northern Salt Lake City. Fox 13 South Lake City\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13now.com\/news\/local-news\/low-voter-turnout-for-some-of-utahs-biggest-races\">reported<\/a>\u00a0early Tuesday that voter turnout in the special election was notably low, with the race falling just two days before Thanksgiving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut your frozen turkey in the fridge, then get in your car, drive to your local dropbox, &amp; return your ballot,\u201d said Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson (R) on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Chris Stewart (R-Utah), according to Decision Desk HQ. She beat out state Sen. Kathleen Riebe (D), the No. 2 Democrat in the Utah Senate, keeping the Utah second congressional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/MaloyCeleste.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,134343,147164,145519,134661,124783,147165,134345,147166],"class_list":["post-598508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-campaign","tag-celeste-maloy","tag-chris-stewart","tag-energy-environment","tag-international","tag-kathleen-riebe","tag-state-watch","tag-utah-special-house-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}