Ben McAdams
U.S. House · UT-1 · U.S. House
Open seat FlipWon redrawn open UT-1 over Riley Owen after an AP call; first Utah Democrat returned to the House since McAdams left in 2021 (reported). Outside groups spent ~$0.00M against vs ~$2.71M for (FEC Sch. E est., primary+general); raised $2.81M, 87.4% from individuals
Election
2026-11-03. Votes 128,961 (71.85%). Opponent: Riley Owen (R). Previous officeholder: Blake Moore (R), ran in redrawn UT-2 after 2025 court-ordered map; seat open. Status in file: yes.
Money reported in the file
Raised $2,813,807. Cash on hand $377,817 as of 2026-10-14. Outside for $2,714,209; against $0.
FEC itemized 2025-01-01 to 2026-10-14 (principal committee); IE through 2026-11-02
Documented ties (63)
| Relationship | Amount | Date | Evidence | Source | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| principal campaign committee | — | 2025-2026 | Reported | Ben McAdams | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| elected Nov 3, 2026 (unofficial) | $128,961 | 2026-11-03 | Reported | Ben McAdams | U.S. House, UT-1 |
| general-election opponent (defeated) | $44,607 | 2026-11-03 | Reported | Ben McAdams | Riley Owen |
| transfer from joint fundraising / authorized committee (line 12) | $89,575 | 2025-01-01..2026-10-14 | Reported | Better Blue Fund (C00940890) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Membership organization); 3 item(s) | $15,000 | 20260219..20260930 | Reported | National Association of Realtors Political Action Committee (C00030718) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 2 item(s) | $10,000 | 20260609..20261014 | Reported | New York Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee (C00158881) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 2 item(s) | $10,000 | 20260513..20260930 | Reported | America's Credit Unions PAC (C00007880) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 2 item(s) | $10,000 | 20260327..20260603 | Reported | American Bankers Association PAC (Bankpac) (C00004275) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Membership organization); 2 item(s) | $10,000 | 20260410..20260622 | Reported | American Association for Justice Political Action Committee (AAJ PAC) (C00024521) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Leadership PAC); 2 item(s) | $10,000 | 20251028..20251120 | Reported | Ameripac: the Fund for A Greater America (C00271338) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Ideological / nonconnected PAC); 2 item(s) | $10,000 | 20251113..20251113 | Reported | Sd PAC (C00757419) (Campaign site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Leadership PAC); 2 item(s) | $10,000 | 20251111..20251111 | Reported | Skipac (C00470666) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 3 item(s) | $7,500 | 20260721..20261007 | Reported | American Financial Services Association PAC (C00038604) (Campaign site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Labor union); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20261007..20261007 | Reported | National Air Traffic Controllers Association PAC (C00238725) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Membership organization); 2 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260721..20261007 | Reported | Online Lenders Alliance Political Action Committee (Ola PAC) (C00427781) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 2 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260819..20261007 | Reported | The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Political Action Committee (C00350744) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20261007..20261007 | Reported | Unitedhealth Group Incorporated PAC (Unitedhealth Group PAC) (C00274431) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Membership organization); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260930..20260930 | Reported | American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Political Action Committee (C00077321) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Labor union); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260929..20260929 | Reported | Amalgamated Transit Union - Cope (C00032995) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260916..20260916 | Reported | National Rural Electric Cooperative Association America's Electric Cooperatives (C00002972) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260923..20260923 | Reported | Edj Holding Company, Inc. Political Action Committee (Edward Jones PAC) (C00410407) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Ideological / nonconnected PAC); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260923..20260923 | Reported | Earn International Union of Operating Engineers (C00624817) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Other PAC (not in FEC master file)); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260923..20260923 | Reported | Jeffpac (C00249987) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Labor union); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260911..20260911 | Reported | Laborers' International Union of North America (Liuna) PAC (C00007922) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Ideological / nonconnected PAC); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260909..20260909 | Reported | Md PAC (C00911321) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Labor union); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260819..20260819 | Reported | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot Club (C00002766) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Leadership PAC); 2 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260330..20260623 | Reported | Ca Luv PAC (California Leadership United for Victory PAC) (C00573709) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260623..20260623 | Reported | Commercial Real Estate Development PAC (Creda PAC) (C00233304) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Labor union); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260623..20260623 | Reported | Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union of Operating (C00029504) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260623..20260623 | Reported | National Multifamily Housing Council and Real Estate Technology and Transformati (C00130773) (Organization site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260526..20260526 | Reported | Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. PAC (Aka Bread Financial PAC) (C00551812) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20260428..20260428 | Reported | PACificorp - PACific Power/Rocky Mountain Power PAC (C00082800) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Ideological / nonconnected PAC); 1 item(s) | $5,000 | 20251209..20251209 | Reported | New Democrat Coalition Action Fund (C00409730) (Campaign site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Membership organization); 2 item(s) | $4,900 | 20260612..20260622 | Reported | League of Conservation Voters Action Fund (C00252940) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Labor union); 1 item(s) | $4,000 | 20260911..20260911 | Reported | NEA Fund for Children and Public Education (C00003251) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Candidate committee); 2 item(s) | $4,000 | 20260403..20260916 | Reported | Schneider for Congress (C00495952) (Campaign site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Candidate committee); 3 item(s) | $4,000 | 20251028..20260309 | Reported | Committee To Elect Jared Golden (C00653816) (Campaign site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Candidate committee); 2 item(s) | $4,000 | 20251111..20251111 | Reported | Matheson for Congress (C00344721) (Campaign site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Leadership PAC); 1 item(s) | $3,500 | 20251017..20251017 | Reported | Turquoise PAC (C00517235) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Ideological / nonconnected PAC); 1 item(s) | $3,500 | 20251121..20251121 | Reported | Way Back PAC (C00824342) (Campaign site) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Leadership PAC); 3 item(s) | $3,000 | 20251226..20260916 | Reported | Bridge the Gap PAC (C00655423) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $2,500 | 20261007..20261007 | Reported | Delta Air Lines PAC (C00104802) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $2,500 | 20261007..20261007 | Reported | General Dynamics Corporation Political Action Committee (General Dynamics Employ (C00078451) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| PAC contribution (Business / trade / professional); 1 item(s) | $2,500 | 20261007..20261007 | Reported | Medtronic Inc. PAC (C00311878) | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) |
| independent expenditures supporting (FEC processed by_candidate) | $1,128,698 | .. | Reported | Think Big (C00923417) | Ben McAdams |
| independent expenditures supporting (FEC e-filed Sch. E, deduped) | $1,025,000 | 2026-06-01..2026-06-08 | Reported | New Democrat Majority (C00859660) | Ben McAdams |
| independent expenditures supporting (FEC processed by_candidate) | $300,000 | .. | Reported | America's Credit Unions PAC (C00007880) (Organization site) | Ben McAdams |
| independent expenditures supporting (FEC processed by_candidate) | $214,831 | .. | Reported | Article One PAC (C00931774) | Ben McAdams |
| independent expenditures supporting (FEC processed by_candidate) | $22,871 | .. | Reported | Way Back PAC (C00824342) (Campaign site) | Ben McAdams |
| independent expenditures supporting (FEC processed by_candidate) | $22,809 | .. | Reported | Welcomepac (C00786830) (Campaign site) | Ben McAdams |
| disbursements to vendor (Schedule B) | $597,520 | 2025-01-01..2026-10-14 | Reported | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) | Old Town Media LLC |
| disbursements to vendor (Schedule B) | $411,478 | 2025-01-01..2026-10-14 | Reported | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) | SB Digital, Inc. (Organization site) |
| disbursements to vendor (Schedule B) | $233,073 | 2025-01-01..2026-10-14 | Reported | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) | The Strategy Group (Organization site) |
| disbursements to vendor (Schedule B) | $157,511 | 2025-01-01..2026-10-14 | Reported | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) | Landslide Political |
| disbursements to vendor (Schedule B) | $140,287 | 2025-01-01..2026-10-14 | Reported | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) | Blueprint Public Affairs |
| disbursements to vendor (Schedule B) | $126,900 | 2025-01-01..2026-10-14 | Reported | Friends of Ben McAdams (C00658633) (Campaign site) | Impact Research, Inc. (Organization site) |
| 28 PAC donors in common (2025-26); those PACs gave Ben McAdams $94,900 | $94,900 | 2025-26 | Inferred | Ben McAdams | Shannon Taylor |
| 30 PAC donors in common (2025-26); those PACs gave Ben McAdams $95,900 | $95,900 | 2025-26 | Inferred | Ben McAdams | Elaine Luria |
| 12 PAC donors in common (2025-26); those PACs gave Ben McAdams $37,000 | $37,000 | 2025-26 | Inferred | Ben McAdams | Mitchell Berman |
| 33 PAC donors in common (2025-26); those PACs gave Ben McAdams $100,400 | $100,400 | 2025-26 | Inferred | Ben McAdams | Rebecca Cooke |
| general-election opponent (defeated) | $44,607 | 2026-11-03 | Reported | Riley Owen | Ben McAdams |
| previous UT-1 officeholder; ran UT-2 after redistricting | — | 2026 | Reported | Blake Moore (Government site) | Ben McAdams |
| prior House service (separate from 2026 UT-1 totals) | — | 2019-2021 | Reported | Utah 4th District (2019–2021) | Ben McAdams |
Ties are documented relationships and amounts from public records. They are not allegations of wrongdoing. Vote totals are unofficial until certification. This printable summary is generated from the public CSV. It is not the PDF dossier (pdfs/mcadams/McAdams_Know_Your_Politician_2026-11-05.pdf).