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Legislative leaders say they will allow redistricting lawsuit to play out ‘before considering whether any further action is necessary’

No constitutional amendment will be run this year seeking to reassert the Utah Legislature’s power over citizen ballot initiatives, Republican legislative leaders confirmed to FOX 13 News on Wednesday.

A new poll shows likely Utah voters are equally divided on whether the Legislature should be able to repeal voter-passed ballot initiatives, like 2018’s Proposition 4.

The GOP-led effort to bring back partisan gerrymandering lost more than 10,5000 voters who asked to have their signatures removed.

After failing to make the ballot, the loss of SD12 adds to the margin of defeat for a push to overturn Utah’s gerrymandering ban.

A GOP-led redistricting push in Utah failed to make the ballot after opposition groups campaigned for voters to remove their signatures from a petition required to ensure the measure was included in the general election later this year.

A Republican-led initiative to repeal an anti-gerrymandering law in Utah will fail to make November’s ballot, despite garnering support from President Donald Trump, Turning Point Action and a host of other GOP influencers and organizations.

Only a few weeks ago, a ballot initiative to restore the Legislature’s ability to gerrymander Utah’s political districts appeared to be a lock for the 2026 ballot. It didn’t last.

Utah’s Republican-controlled legislature is escalating its fight against the state’s anti-gerrymandering law after a series of court rulings threatened the congressional map that has long favored the GOP.