A nationwide rebuke of Republican policies appeared to trickle down to Utah’s state legislative races as polls closed Tuesday.

While election officials still have thousands of votes to count, as of 10 p.m., over a dozen Republican incumbents appeared to be at an early disadvantage to Democrats, third-party and unaffiliated candidates in a handful of races throughout the state.

Despite Democrats’ shot at flipping seats in the Republican-dominated Legislature, the GOP will still likely hold onto its supermajority.

Currently, the GOP controls 22 of 29 Senate seats and 60 of 75 House seats. To drop from a two-thirds supermajority to a majority, the party would have to lose three seats in the Senate and at least 11 seats in the House.

The most competitive districts are concentrated in Salt Lake County, but Tuesday night’s numbers were close in districts up and down the Wasatch Front, as well as in Cache County. Those results came as voters resoundingly admonished President Donald Trump’s administration, giving Democrats major victories in congressional races across the country.

Here are some legislative races that are close as of early, unofficial results:

Senate District 5: Rep. Jill Koford vs. CJ Hernandez

Democrat CJ Hernandez took an early lead with 57.5% of votes as of 9 p.m. in a district held for over a decade by Republican Sen. Ann Millner, who is retiring.

In early, unofficial returns, Rep. Jill Koford had received 42.5% of the vote. Koford opted to leave her seat in the House of Representatives after one term to run for Millner’s spot.

Senate District 5 includes portions of Davis, Morgan and Weber counties. Koford owns a graphic design company, and Hernandez left the U.S. State Department’s diplomatic corps to compete as a Democrat in the race.

Senate District 11: Sen. Emily Buss vs. Brooks Benson

Sen. Emily Buss, the only third-party member of the Legislature, early on election night held a slim 24-vote lead over Republican Brooks Benson in her district covering Salt Lake, Tooele and Utah counties.

At 9:20 p.m., Buss had 50.1% of votes, while Benson had 49.9%.

Buss is a member of the Forward Party. She secured the seat last year after former Sen. Daniel Thatcher resigned from the GOP, joined the Forward Party then stepped down.

The former nonprofit leader is fighting to keep Republicans from regaining control of the seat — the Democratic nominee withdrew from the race in August, hoping to prevent a GOP victory.

Benson, the Republican candidate, owns a gym and works as a business advisor.

Senate District 19: Sen. Kirk Cullimore vs. Shana Anderson

Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore, who is a speculated candidate for Senate president, was behind his Democratic opponent Shana Anderson shortly after polls closed Tuesday.

As of 9:55 p.m., Anderson had received 57% of votes and Cullimore had 43% of votes in Senate District 19, which includes parts of Salt Lake and Utah counties.

Cullimore is an attorney who has served in the Senate since 2019, and Anderson wrote in her conflict-of-interest disclosure that she is a stay-at-home mom.

House District 30: Rep. Jake Fitisemanu vs. Dave Parke

Fitisemanu boasted 63.9% of the vote in preliminary results, well ahead of Parke, with 36.1%.

Fitisemanu, a Democrat, is finishing his first term in the Utah House of Representatives. The former West Valley City Council member, who also works as a community health advocate, defeated a Republican to win the seat in 2024.

His GOP challenger is Parke, who owns a franchise in a home health care company.

House District 26: Rep. Matt MacPherson vs. Michael Finch

Finch, a Democrat, had 64.1% of the vote in early results, well ahead of GOP incumbent MacPherson, with 36.9%.

The conservative MacPherson has represented the purple district since 2022. He owns multiple businesses, including a payroll services company, and is a partner in a fireworks business.

Finch is the Democrat running against MacPherson. He previously co-owned a PostNet franchise and now sits on the citizen review board that screens complaints against the West Valley City Police Department.

House District 27: Rep. Anthony Loubet vs. Liz Oates

Loubet fell far behind with initial results in the race, at 36.8% of the vote, compared to 63.2% for Oates, based on early numbers.

Widely considered one of the Legislature’s more moderate Republicans on social issues, Loubet flipped this seat for the GOP in 2022. He is an attorney who owns a law firm focusing on business and estate law.

His Democratic opponent, Oates, is a health insurance case manager and funeral director.

House District 10: Rosemary Lesser vs. Jim Alvey

Democratic incumbent Lesser pulled ahead with a margin of 63% with initial polling results released shortly after 9 p.m., with GOP hopeful Alvey at 37%.

Voters previously elected Lesser, a retired OB-GYN and Air Force veteran, to represent the district in 2022 after the Democrat finished a term filling in for the late Rep. LaWanna Shurtliff.

Koford beat Lesser by a few hundred votes in 2024, taking the district for Republicans. Now, as Koford’s Senate run leaves the seat open, the GOP nominated Alvey to take on Lesser.

Alvey owns a video production company and previously oversaw public relations for Intermountain Health hospitals in northern Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.

House District 42: Rep. Clint Okerlund vs. Iva Williams

Okerlund, the Republican incumbent, appeared to fall behind in initial results, garnering 44% of the vote compared to Democrat William’s 56%.

This is Okerlund’s first reelection bid after stepping into the office in 2024. He works as a contractor CFO for multiple bioscience companies.

His Democratic challenger is Williams, who works as a software administrator at a tech company.

House District 3: Rep. Jason Thompson v. Patrick Belmont

In Cache County, unaffiliated candidate Patrick Belmont took a surprise early lead over incumbent Rep. Jason Thompson, a Republican. Early, unofficial returns as of 9:25 p.m. put Belmont ahead with 57.8% of votes, while Thompson had 42.2% of votes.

Thompson, who works in real estate and is completing his first term, beat Belmont for the seat in 2024. Belmont is a hydrology professor at Utah State University.