Utah elections

What it covers

The Utah scraper returns election results from electionresults.utah.gov. It covers all elections available on the site — generals, primaries, and special elections — currently from 2023 to 2025.

Note: The Utah elections site uses the same Angular/PrimeNG framework as the Georgia SOS site. All scraping uses a headless Chromium browser via Playwright. County scraping is parallelised across up to max_workers browsers (default 4). Utah has 29 counties.

Arguments

Argument	Default	Description
`state`	—	`"UT"`, `"utah"`, or `"Utah"`
`year_from`	`NULL`	Start year, inclusive; `NULL` = no lower bound
`year_to`	`NULL`	End year, inclusive; `NULL` = no upper bound
`level`	`"all"`	`"all"` — statewide + county; `"state"` — statewide only (much faster); `"county"` — county-level only
`max_workers`	`4L`	Parallel Chromium browsers for county scraping

Examples

Statewide + county results for a single year

res <- scrape_elections(state = "UT", year_from = 2024, year_to = 2024)

# Statewide candidate totals
res$state %>%
  select(election_name, office, candidate, party, votes, pct)

# County-level breakdown
res$county %>%
  select(county, office, candidate, party, votes, pct) %>%
  arrange(county, office, desc(votes))

Statewide totals only (faster — skips county scraping)

state_df <- scrape_elections(
  state     = "UT",
  year_from = 2024,
  year_to   = 2024,
  level     = "state"
)

state_df %>%
  select(election_name, office, candidate, party, votes, pct)

All available years

res <- scrape_elections(
  state       = "UT",
  year_from   = 2023,
  year_to     = 2025,
  level       = "state"
)

Filter to a specific county

res <- scrape_elections(state = "UT", year_from = 2024, year_to = 2024)

res$county %>%
  filter(county == "Salt Lake") %>%
  select(election_name, office, candidate, party, votes, pct) %>%
  arrange(office, desc(votes))

Output columns

`$state` (when `level = "all"` or `"state"`)

Column	Description
`election_name`	Human-readable election name
`election_year`	Calendar year of the election
`election_slug`	URL slug identifying the election
`election_date`	Date string from the page header
`result_status`	Reporting status (e.g. `"OFFICIAL RESULTS"`)
`office`	Office name
`localities_reporting`	`"X/Y"` localities reporting string
`candidate`	Candidate name (cleaned — `(I)` and party suffix stripped)
`party`	Party abbreviation
`is_incumbent`	`TRUE` if `(I)` appears in raw candidate name
`is_winner`	Always `NA` — winner marker absent from the site HTML
`votes`	Vote total
`pct`	Percentage of votes
`url`	URL of the election page

`$county` (when `level = "all"` or `"county"`)

Same columns as $state, plus:

Column	Description
`county`	County name

Performance notes

level = "state" is much faster. County scraping opens up to max_workers parallel Chromium browsers across Utah’s 29 counties.
Virtual scroll. The site uses Angular virtual scrolling; the scraper automatically scrolls to load all panels before parsing.
Limited history. The Utah elections site currently lists elections from 2023 onward. Earlier data is not available through this scraper.