Valley City Council in November 2005 with 71% of the vote over 12-year incumbent Barbara Thomas. He was elected on November 3, 2009 as the seventh mayor of West Valley City, Utah, with 76% of the vote; his opponent was Kevin Fayles. At 29, he was the youngest council person in city history, and when sworn in on January 4, 2010, at age 33, he became the youngest mayor in city history. In 2012, Winder and former county council member Mark Crockett emerged from the Salt Lake County Republican Convention field of six to face off for the GOP nomination for county mayor. Crockett narrowly defeated Winder in the GOP primary election, 50.7% to 49.3%. In 2016, Winder ran for the Utah State House of Representatives, defeating incumbent Fred Cox in the Salt Lake County Republican Convention by a delegate vote of 62% to 38%. He went on to defeat his Democratic opponent Frank Bedolla 59% to 41%. He was sworn in as a member of the Utah State House of Representatives on January 1, 2017. Winder was re-elected in 2018, following a victory over former-Representative Fred Cox in a Republican county convention rematch 67% to 33% and a general election win over Democrat Robert Burch, Jr. 57% to 43%. Winder was elected to a third term in 2020 in a rematch with Burch, 58% to 42%. In 2022, Rep. Winder announced he will be retiring from the legislature, as he was appointed unanimously to be the new city manager for Millcreek. He took office on March 7. During the 2022 legislative session, Rep. Winder served on the Business, Economic Development, and Labor Appropriations Subcommittee, the House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee, and the House Transportation Committee, where he served as its vice-chair. Political Positions and Significant Legislation In 2022, Rep. Winder sponsored HB178, "Rank Choice Voting Amendments," which would require "ranked-choice voting to be used to multi-candidate primaries and general elections." The bill was going to be considered in committee but was taken off the agenda in the last minute after a big push from groups on the political right to oppose the bill. In 2022, Rep. Winder voted to cut the income tax rate from 4.95% to 4.85%. He also supported creating a state earned income tax credit. In an op-ed Winder write on Deseret News, he said that "there is no public policy with a better