Brad Wilson House Majority Leader: Francis D. Gibson State party organization In off-election years the Utah Republican Party holds organizing conventions where state delegate elect a chair, vice-chair, secretary and treasurer. The state party officers are elected for a term of two (2) years. Central Committee The State Central Committee (SCC) has representatives from every county in Utah. Along with the automatic members, each county chair and vice-chair, counties are allocated representative based on the number of voting republicans in that county. These representatives are chosen in elections which take place in the Republican county conventions held in odd-numbered years. Election results Presidential Gubernatorial Right of Association Legal Appeal The State Central Committee (SCC) is the governing body of the party. 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. SB54 forced the parties in Utah to have open primaries, among other demands. The SCC directed its party chairman, James Evans, to file a lawsuit, which sought, among other things, to overturn the use of open primaries. The Utah Republican Party prevailed on this point, which required the state elections office to defer to the Utah Republican Party as to whether the primary would be open or closed and whether unaffiliated voters would be eligible to sign ballot-access petitions for Republican candidates. The party filed two more lawsuits to try to overturn SB54's signature path to the ballot, but lost those cases. They appealed to the 10th Circuit Court which upheld the lower courts ruling and a subsequent appeal to the US Supreme Court was denied. State Party Caucuses Party Caucuses are held every two years in Utah. County party organizations Each of Utah's 29 counties has a party organization, which operates within that county and sends delegates to the State Central Committee. See also Republican Party Democratic Party of Utah Libertarian Party of Utah References External links Utah Republican Party Utah County Republican Party Davis County Republican Party Cache County Republican Party Utah Republican Veterans Caucus Utah Federation of College Republicans Utah Teen Aged Republicans Republican State Leadership Committee Utah Black Republican Assembly Republican Party Republican Party (United States) by state