It currently holds Utah's entire congressional delegation, all statewide executive offices, and supermajorities in both state legislative chambers.

Smoot led a political alliance of Mormons and non-Mormons that created a strong Republican party in many parts of the state.

[2][not specific enough to verify][non-primary source needed] The Republican Party is currently dominant in Utah politics: no Democrat has won statewide office since 1996, when Jan Graham was elected attorney general;[3] and when Mia Love replaced Jim Matheson in congress in 2014, Utah's congressional delegation became all-Republican.

In off-election years the Utah Republican Party holds organizing conventions where state delegate elect a chair, vice-chair, secretary and treasurer.

In 2014 the state legislature passed SB54 which created a pathway by which candidates from all parties in Utah could bypass the nominating conventions and qualify directly for the primary ballot by collecting a required number of signatures.

The SCC directed its party chairman, James Evans, to file a lawsuit, which sought, among other things, to overturn the use of open primaries.