United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Utah 1
Ben McAdams
Result: Won · 71.9% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
Ben McAdams’s FEC committees ran 10 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 18 May 2026 and 15 June 2026. Meta reports $25.4–29.4K of spend. That makes Ben McAdams the 286th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Utah 1. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
10
ads on 1 page
$27.4K
reported spend, range $25.4–29.4K
100%
of spend on federal races
$1.6K
median spend per ad
Meta and Google side by side
On MetaFacebook · Instagram
$27.4K
10 ads on 1 page, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026
- Largest page
- Ben McAdams · $27.4K
- Federal races
- 100%
- Median spend per ad
- $1.6K
- Attack ads, of text ads
- 0.0%
On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display
$64–87K
9 ads from 2 verified advertiser accounts, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 24 June 2026
- Against Meta spend
- 2.8×
- Formats
- 8 video · 1 text
- Impressions
- 3.3M–3.8M
- Targeting declared
- no age or gender
- States named
- Utah
- Last ad shown
- 24 Jun
Google advertiser accounts
| Advertiser | Ads | Formats | States | First ad | Last ad | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Ben McAdams | 6 | 5 video · 1 text | UT | 20 May | 24 Jun | $41.5–58K |
| FRIENDS OF BEN MCADAMS | 3 | 3 video | UT | 23 May | 23 Jun | $22.5–29K |
Google publishes no ad text; the link on each account opens its ads in Google’s Ads Transparency Center. An account is tied to this page by its FEC committee; a party page lists its 2 largest.
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 9 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 70%, Spanish 21%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF BEN MCADAMS C00658633 | 10 | $27.4K |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Vote! Vote! Vote! The Democratic primary is June 23rd - Utah’s best chance to send a Democrat back to Congress. And which Democrat voted to impeach Trump? Gotten a 100% score from Planned Parenthood in the State Senate? Is ready to deliver again for Utah? Vote: Ben McAdams.
4 June 2026 · Ben McAdams · $9–10K · 500K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
No me detendré para proteger a las familias de Utah, pase lo que pase. Vota por Ben McAdams el 23 de junio.
21 May 2026 · Ben McAdams · $5–6K · 1M+ impressions · Promotional · Ad LibrarySpanish
I won’t hold back to protect Utah families, no matter what. Vote Ben McAdams on June 23rd.
22 May 2026 · Ben McAdams · $4–4.5K · 200K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
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10 June 2026 · Ben McAdams · $2–2.5K · 125K+ impressions · Ad Library
This is the ‘Ben McAd’, about Ben McAdams, who is a Democrat running for Congress. He really Ben McCares about all Utah families and their futures. Vote June 23rd.
8 June 2026 · Ben McAdams · $900 – $999 · 60K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
When the hits keep coming, I'll keep fighting for Utahns. Vote Ben McAdams on June 23rd
15 June 2026 · Ben McAdams · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Ben McAdams | 10 | $27.4K |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s Ad Library.
Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.
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