page_title: 2018 United States Senate election in Utah
section_title: Results
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 United States Senate election in Utah / Republican primary / Primary / Results
context_page_description: The 2018 United States Senate election in Utah took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Utah, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. The primaries took place on June 26.
  Incumbent Republican senator Orrin Hatch announced in January 2018 that he would retire and not be seek reelection to an eighth term. The general election was won by Mitt Romney, who had been the Republican nominee for president in 2012 and previously was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Romney became only the third person in American history to be elected governor and senator in different states. At 71, he additionally became the oldest person ever elected to their first term as a U.S. senator.
caption: Results by county:  Romney   70–80%   60–70%   50–60%    Kennedy   50–60%