Ben McAdams
- Democratic · On the Nov 3 ballot for US House, Utah District 1
- Served
- US House UT-04, 2019 to 2021
- Background
- Attorney
- Raised
- $2.8M
- Cash on hand
- $378K
- First race on record
- 2010
- Age
- 51
- Races
- Won 2 of 3
Now
US House, Utah District 1
- Newest poll
- McAdams 62.7, Owen 21.2, West 4.7, Montgomery 3.3 · Lighthouse Research, Sep 10, 2026 · Polls updated Oct 31, 8:30 p.m. ET, from VoteHub
Career
| Year | Race | Result | Share | Lost to, or other round |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | US House, UT-04 | Lost · primary won 100% | 46.7% | Burgess Owens 47.7% |
| 2018 | US House, UT-04 | Won · primary won 100% | 50.1% | |
| 2010 | State Senate, UT | Won | 73.8% |
About this list
Races in our results files. Other offices, earlier years and most primaries can be missing. A general that went to a runoff counts as neither a win nor a loss.
Money
FEC, through Oct 14, 2026Spent $2.5M · Debts owed $0
Where the money came from
- Individuals$2.4M
- PACs and other committees$342K
- Party committees$0
- Candidate’s own money$0
- Loans from the candidate$0
- Transfers from the candidate’s other committees$90K
As the campaign reported to the FEC through Oct 14, 2026. Bars compare these lines. Some money has no line here, so they may not add up to the total raised. Source: FEC candidate summary.
Committees giving to this campaign
81 committees reported giving $250K.
- American Bankers Association PAC (BANKPAC)PAC$10,000
- America's Credit Unions PACPAC$10,000
- American Association for Justice PAC (AAJ PAC)PAC$10,000
- National Association of Realtors PACPAC$10,000
- New York Life Insurance Company PACPAC$10,000
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- Ameripac: the Fund for a Greater AmericaLeadership PAC$10,000
- SkipacLeadership PAC$10,000
- Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. PAC (AKA Bread Financial PAC)PAC$10,000
- Sd PACPAC$10,000
- Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood of Carpenters and JoinersPAC$5,000
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot ClubPAC$5,000
- Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) PACPAC$5,000
- Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union of Operating EngineersPAC$5,000
- Pacificorp - Pacific Power/Rocky Mountain Power PACPAC$5,000
- National Multifamily Housing Council and Real Estate Technology and Transformation Center PAC (NMHC PAC)PAC$5,000
- Commercial Real Estate Development PAC (CREDA PAC)PAC$5,000
- New Democrat Coalition Action FundPAC$5,000
- Online Lenders Alliance PAC (OLA PAC)PAC$5,000
- Ca Luv PAC (California Leadership United for Victory PAC)Leadership PAC$5,000
- League of Conservation Voters Action FundPAC$4,900
The largest 20 are listed. Refunds the committees reported are taken out. Independent spending isn’t included. These figures come from the committees’ own reports, so they can differ from the campaign’s lines above, sometimes by a lot. Source: FEC committee-to-candidate file, dated Oct 25, 2026.
Reports through Oct 14, 2026. Matched to the FEC by name, party and seat, so it could be the wrong person.
How these are counted
Later filings are not in yet. Totals for the 2025 to 2026 cycle. Raised $2,813,807. Cash on hand $377,817. Spent $2,450,992. Debts owed $0. Individuals $2,379,738. PACs and other committees $341,791. Party committees $0. Candidate’s own money $0. Loans from the candidate $0. Other loans $0. Transfers from the candidate’s other committees $89,575. Main committee: Friends of Ben Mcadams. No individual donor names are shown.
More about Ben McAdams
Offices held (2 terms and offices)
- 2019 to 2020US House, Utah District 4 · 1 term
- State Senate, Utah
Background
- Attorney
Source: Wikidata
Official pages (1 link)
Sources (9 sources)
Name, party, office and status. Retrieved Sep 21, 2026.
Federal 2026 candidates: money totals (web/data/people/money) and the MN federal filing list. Bulk files, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 31, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Totals and committee names only; no donor names or addresses are stored.
FEC bulk data 2025-2026: contributions from committees to candidates (pas226)
Federal 2026 candidates: committees giving to each candidate (web/data/people/money-types). Bulk file, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 31, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Committee totals only; the individual contributions file is not used.
Election Wrld 2026 candidate files (state election office lists)
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: state public records; see each row's sourceUrl.
unitedstates/congress-legislators
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: CC0 1.0.
Election Wrld state legislative returns (web/data/results/sld); each row names its upstream source
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: see sources.json.
FEC candidate master file (cnYY.zip bulk download)
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: US government work, public domain.
Stanford DIME v4.0 recipients file
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: ODC-BY 1.0.
MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House 1976-2024
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: CC0 1.0.
- Age: Wikidata, counted to Nov 3, 2026. A community-edited source, not an official record. We show the age, never the birth date.
Officials files, 2026 candidate files, returns files, DIME, FEC candidate master and congress-legislators terms, as of 2026-10-29. Nothing about jobs, retirement, or reasons is recorded or inferred.
Not available for Ben McAdams: an ideology score.
DataSources: FEC, Results filesData as of Oct 29, 2026Photo credits