Ben McAdams has won in Utah’s 4th District, defeating GOP Rep. Mia Love, giving Democrats yet another seat in the House come January.
Final vote counts tonight showed McAdams winning by 694 votes, or a margin of 50.129 percent to 49.871.
That margin of 0.258 was just barely outside the 0.25 percent that would have allowed Love to request a recount.
McAdams win increases Democrats’ net gain in the House in 2018 to a total of 38 seats, the largest shift in the party’s favor since the 1974 election, held in the wake of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of Republican President Richard Nixon.
Love, who is Haitian-American, was first elected in 2014 when Republicans made major gains in Congress.
She made history as the first black female Republican elected to Congress.
