Utah Prop. 4 Repeal Officially Fails to Make 2026 Ballot

Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson on Thursday said a bid to repeal Proposition 4, Utah’s voter-approved anti-gerrymandering law, has officially failed to qualify for the November ballot.

Prop. 4, passed by voters in 2018, created an independent redistricting commission and outlawed partisan gerrymandering—reforms the Republican-controlled Utah Legislature has tried to undo ever since.

The repeal initiative initially qualified, but after a sustained signature-removal campaign, it fell below required thresholds in two state Senate districts, knocking it off the ballot.

Utahns for Representative Government (UFRG), the GOP-led group behind the repeal, spent more than $4.3 million on signature-gathering, and almost all of it came from Securing American Greatness, a Trump-aligned dark-money group.

The signature push was dogged by fraud allegations and that petition circulators misled voters. A North Carolina man who was employed as a signature collector for the effort was charged with 11 felonies on Tuesday after he was accused of submitting fraudulent signatures.

Three opposition groups raised nearly $1 million to persuade voters to pull their signatures.

Defend Utah’s Ballot raised $650,000, mostly from two donors—Forward Majority Action, a Democratic super PAC, and The Fairness Project, which helped put Medicaid expansion on Utah’s 2018 ballot.
Utahns Protecting Our Constitution, closely aligned with Better Boundaries (the organization behind the 2018 Prop. 4 campaign), reported more than $429,000 in cash and in-kind support.
Brave Utahns Rapid Response Network (BURRN), a grassroots group opposing the repeal, raised about $9,500.

Better Boundaries celebrated Henderson’s decision.

“Utah voters won today. Again. The latest attempt to repeal Proposition 4—to tear down the independent redistricting system that Utah voters have worked for and defended for years—has been stopped,” the group said in a statement.