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The UT-1 race
Sitouni (stoney) Teiko Fonua is running as a Republican in Utah’s 1st Congressional District. The congressional race is contested and will be decided in the Nov. 3, 2026, general election.
The candidate field includes 15 people. Ten are identified as Democrats, three as Republicans, one as a Libertarian and one with an “Other” affiliation. Official records do not list biographies, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions for any of the candidates.
Candidates in the race
Each candidate has the same categories of information on file: a name and party affiliation, but no biography, fundraising total, spending total, cash-on-hand figure or documented policy position.
- Kye Hinckley, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- January Walker, Other: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Derek Kitchen, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Jesse Keegan West, Libertarian: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Eva Lopez Chavez, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Jonathan Lopez, Republican: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Ben Mcadams, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Liban Mohamed, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Riley Montgomery Owen, Republican: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Nate Blouin, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Kathleen Riebe, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Michael Farrell, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Anthony Tomkins, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Sitouni (stoney) Teiko Fonua, Republican: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
- Luis Angel Villarreal, Democrat: No biography, campaign-finance figures or documented policy positions are on file.
Fonua’s background and positions
Fonua’s official entry identifies the candidate’s Republican affiliation. It does not list biographical details, including employment, education, public service or community experience.
There are also no documented positions for Fonua on issues before Congress. The same is true for every other candidate in the UT-1 field, so no candidate’s stance can be stated from the official race record.
Campaign-finance record and next steps
Fundraising, spending and cash-on-hand amounts are not on file for Fonua. Those three campaign-finance categories are also not on file for Hinckley, Walker, Kitchen, West, Chavez, Lopez, Mcadams, Mohamed, Owen, Blouin, Riebe, Farrell, Tomkins and Villarreal.
The next established date in the race is the general election on Nov. 3, 2026. Before then, the candidate field, official biographies, documented issue positions and campaign-finance entries are the main parts of the record to watch for changes.
