1980Flipped from DemocraticFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
1980 election for Utah Senate District 20
Utah State Senate · Utah
Lowell Peterson (R) won with 55.4% of the vote, defeating Kenneth E. Pace (D) by 10.8 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Lowell PetersonRepublican · winner
55.4%8,514
Kenneth E. PaceDemocrat · incumbent
44.6%6,854
15,368 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1980
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET