An incumbent City Council member and a challenger led Park City’s crowded race to fill a pair of council seats, according to unofficial returns Wednesday afternoon.
Of the eight council hopefuls, including two incumbents, the top four will move on to the general election this fall.
Tana Toly and Jeremy Rubell, both first-term council members, are seeking reelection this year and faced six other candidates: Beth Armstrong, Danny Glasser, Ian Hartley, John “J.K.” Kenworthy and Diego Zegarra.
Park City voters had the option Tuesday to vote for two of the eight council candidates.
As of around 2 p.m. Wednesday, council member Toly and Zegarra led the pack with 21.8% and 19.6%, respectively, according to unofficial results. Incubment Rubell was in third with 13.1% and, with 11.3%, Kenworthy rounded out the top four. The unofficial results had Armstrong at 10.9%, Glasser with 10.5%, Miller with 8.7% and Hartley at nearly 4.1%.
Because Ryan Dickey and Jack Rubin are the only two candidates running to be Park City’s new mayor, their names did not appear on the primary ballot. Residents will pick Mayor Nann Worel’s replacement in the Nov. 4 general election.
Municipal elections in Utah are generally held during odd-numbered years and away from the presidential and midterm election cycle of state and national candidates.
The Park City mayor and five council members — who each serve in an at-large capacity, meaning they are elected to represent the whole city and not a specific neighborhood — hold four-year terms. Two council members and the mayor are elected in one cycle during the odd-year elections, like this year, while the three other council members are elected during the next odd-year cycle.
In 2021, the last time residents voted in this mayoral-plus-two-council-seats primary cycle, nearly 2,500 ballots were cast in the mayor’s race.
Later that fall, Worel was elected as Park City’s first female mayor, collecting nearly 61% of the vote.
She announced earlier this year that she would not seek a second term.
Note to readers • This story has been updated with the latest, unofficial tallies from the 2025 municipal primary elections.