Incumbent Maloy well ahead of Lyman in GOP race for Utah's House District 3 • Utah News Dispatch
Rep. Celeste Maloy answers questions during the 3rd Congressional District GOP primary debate against Phil Lyman in Salt Lake City on Monday, June 1, 2026. (Pool photo by Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune)
Incumbent Rep. Celeste Maloy appears to have defeated challenger Phil Lyman by a 2-to-1 margin in the Republican primary race for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, according to preliminary results released late Tuesday.
“I feel relieved,” Maloy told Utah News Dispatch by phone from Washington, D.C. “It’s always nice to have a primary race over.”
The vast, newly drawn district stretches from northern Utah’s Morgan and Summit counties down to the entirety of the Arizona border, the product of a long legal battle over redistricting in Utah that ended in a court-ordered congressional map.
As they made their case to voters in the district, Maloy pitched herself as a problem-solver, while Lyman cast himself as an anti-establishment candidate.
The Associated Press called the race for Maloy s…