The Forward Party of Utah is a state-level centrist political party formed through a merger of the United Utah Party and the Utah Forward Party (approved April 26, 2025). It positions itself as a pragmatic, post-partisan alternative to the major parties, prioritizing voter choice, election reform, and problem-focused governance at the state and local level.
Electoral and voting reforms (ranked-choice voting, approval voting, expanded ballot access, nonpartisan selection processes), government ethics and transparency, policies emphasizing the economy, education, environment, equality and ethical government, and pragmatic, data-driven local solutions.
Primarily small-dollar individual donations, membership dues and local fundraising events, supplemented by state party fundraising and occasional support from national Forward Party infrastructure and sympathetic individual donors.
Forward Party (national), United Utah Party (predecessor), state leaders such as Adam Teuscher and Michelle Quist, State Senator Daniel Thatcher, and national Forward Party figures including Andrew Yang.
State political party (centrist/independent party)
