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Not true. Utah house and senate districts and seats are allocated based on population.

It is not like the Federal senate where each state gets fixed representatives, independent of population.

For example, Salt Lake country has 12/29 senate representatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_State_Legislative_distric...

That'd be true if there were fair maps. But the metro has been diluted so significantly with rural voters that I stand by it, SLC has approximately no power in the legislature.

Guess what? The entire Wasatch Front is predominantly urban, in fact it is one of the most urban areas in the country. It is all metro area in other words, even if not part of the SLC metro area.

There are so few people in actual rural areas that if you go to a meeting where delegates are allocated by population they are few and far between. The vast majority of the population comes from four counties on the Wasatch Front - Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber - and the next four counties (Washington, Cache, Tooele, and Box Elder) are predominantly urban populations as well.

Im willing to agree jerrymandering occurs, but there is simply no mathematical way to jerrymander 90% of voters into a minority position, only pick off a seat or two.

Imagine trying to fill 10 cups to 51% with one cup of water.

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