Rep. Mia Love takes over Ben McAdams while Utah County updates results

Rep. Mia Love took the lead ahead of Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams on Friday as Utah County updated the total votes in the highly monitored 4th race organized by the state in the district.

McAdams' advance went from 7,128 to 5,852 after Utah's second most populous county updated its results for the first time since polling day. This should be the only update in Utah County today, with about 72,000 ballots remaining to be counted. It is not known how many of them are in the 4th district.

Thousands of ballots are not counted across the state, and Salt Lake County, the state's most populous county, is expected to update its results by 3 pm And the new vote totals released Friday showed that McAdams had actually improved its performance in Utah County, a conservative stronghold. This could cause trouble for the Love campaign.

"We have no other statement yet," Sasha Clark, Love's campaign director, said on Friday.

The new tally resulted in McAdams' lead margin increasing from 3.54 percentage points to 2.86 percentage points.

The updated totals have had relatively little effect on Proposition 4, an anti-gerrymandering initiative that currently holds a very limited support majority and remains too narrow to be called. After adding New Utah County votes to state totals, support for Prop 4 was 50.5%, compared with 49.5 for the Opposition.

The Salt Lake Tribune will update this story.