The file

Spencer Cox

Republican · Governor of Utah · Utah · Spectrum score +24

Governor ·

Spencer Cox is Governor of Utah in Utah. Political positions and ideology score +24 (Center-right). Cox is the nice Republican.

College: Utah State University (attended) · Snow College, A.S. · Utah Valley University, B.A. · Washington and Lee University School of Law, J.D. 2001
Spouse: Abby Cox (m. 1996)
Children: Four
Résumé: Governor of Utah · 2021–
Lieutenant Governor of Utah · 2013–2021
Utah House of Representatives · 2013

Net worth: $3.0M
Salary: $182,900
Before office: $800K
2026 raised: —
Years in office: 13

Where Spencer stands on the spectrum

Spencer Cox scores +24 on Spectrum’s left–right line (center-right), mixed on economic issues and mixed on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +24 · Center-right · economic +25 · social +22 · authoritarian +10

Confidence 83. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Cox is the nice Republican. The file is a farm-town résumé in a state filling with data centers, a 2022 that the base tried to end, and a national brand as ‘the one who still talks like 2012.’

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$3.0M

+275% since taking office

Disclosure midpoint, 2025

Before office$800K

Now$3.0M

Rural Utah, a family farm-and-town story. Not a ski-resort billionaire. The brand is the adult in a radicalizing party.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $0
Cash on hand: $0

Top industries

Utah business
Agriculture
Tech (Utah)

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Rural Utah. Funds.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$100K–$500K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$30K–$150K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$100K–$500K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$30K–$150K

Sum of ranges $130K–$650K · midpoint $390K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

2022 primary vs a Trumpier right that he survived.
Utah tech growth vs a small-town biography.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +25
Social: +22
Authoritarian: +10
Confidence: 83

Taxes & spending+30
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+18
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+22
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+28
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+24
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+24
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+16
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+34
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+32
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+30
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+34
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties-2
Privacy, speech, limits on surveillance and bans

No roll-call first dimension on file — issues only.

Compass

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Sources

State record
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.