Utah's 2nd congressional district

Utah's 2nd congressional district

Infobox U.S. congressional district
state = Utah
district number = 2



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representative = Jim Matheson
party = Democratic
english area =
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percent urban =
percent rural =
population = 744,389
population year = 2000
median income = 45,583
percent white =90.8
percent black = 0.6
percent asian = 1.6
percent native american = 2.3
percent hispanic = 5.9
percent other race = 0.5
percent blue collar =
percent white collar =
percent gray collar =
cpvi = R+17

Utah District 2 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that currently serves the largely rural southern and eastern portions of Utah (including Saint George and Moab in the south and Vernal in the east), as well as the east side of urban Salt Lake County, the northern portion of Utah County, and Wasatch County. The current Representative from District 2 is Democrat Jim Matheson. Even though George W. Bush received 67% of the vote in this district in 2004, Rep. Matheson's conservative Democratic stances keep him in office.

Matheson is facing the Republican challenger Bill Dew in the 2008 general election. Dew defeated five other Republican contenders to win his party's nomination at Utah's state convention.


List of Representatives

District borders are periodically redrawn and some district residences may no longer be in the current 2nd district.


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