[4][5][6][7] With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+16, it is the most Republican district in Utah, a state with an all-Republican congressional delegation.

The Republican nominee was Mia Love, mayor of Saratoga Springs and running for Congress for the first time.

Democratic candidate Matheson narrowly won the election against Love on November 6, 2012, and represented Utah's 4th congressional district until January 2015.

[9] In 2014, Mia Love ran again for the seat and won in the general election, defeating Democratic candidate Doug Owens.

In the 2018 elections, Love ran for a third term, losing to Salt Lake County mayor Ben McAdams by 694 votes out of almost 270,000.