With election results well determined, U.S. Rep. Mia Love spoke to Utahns and her constituents on Monday in a Salt Lake City press conference.

According to Love, her loss shines a light on the Republican Party’s relationship with minorities.

Diversity among representatives is not just a struggle nationally, but especially in Utah where few minorities or women make up the pool of politicians.

“I am proud of the fact that I nagged the president every day to bring Joshua Holt home,” Love said, but remarked that Donald Trump’s comments about her loss made her wonder what he had to gain by saying such things about a fellow Republican. “This gave me a clear vision of his world as it is,” Love said. “No real relationships, just convenient transactions.”

There are several lessons that can be learned from the midterm election, but there seems to be one clear message to elected officials: voters are getting restless with the status quo.

The United Utah Party’s creation and determination as a third party hints at this. The party managed to get 12 percent of the vote in the 1st Congressional District, and in other races where there were candidates with 10 percent of the total vote.

Voters want humanity in their laws and policies. And if elected representatives will not pass what voters are most passionate about, then voters will happily take it upon themselves.

Just take into account statewide Propositions 2, 3 and 4.

After years of debate in the Legislature, voters passed Proposition 2 for medical marijuana because no meaningful progress was being made to help those plagued with illness. Only after significant support of Proposition 2’s passage across the state did lawmakers, and organizations like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, take voters’ demands seriously and come up with a last-minute compromise in lieu of Proposition 2. Where was this urgency and compromise in the last four legislative sessions? Where was the compassion and humanity for helping sick children and adults seeking relief outside opioids during these last years?

After the state government has failed to enact successful Medicaid plans, voters took to the ballot and approved an expansion themselves in the form of Proposition 3. The majority of Utahns voted to provide state Medicaid health care coverage to those among us who are low income.

Then, there’s gerrymandering. Proposition 4 barely squeaked by. However, if an independent review can more honestly evaluate districts to prevent situations happening like that in San Juan County that prevented the Navajo from being represented for years, then Utahns will most definitely benefit.

We urge elected officials to honor the will of voters in their actions taken in this election. Their duty is to carry out the will of the people; not reverse or upend it.

It is our hope that the world, and Utah, is not just about convenient transactions revolving around moves for political power and gain. We need real relationships, compassionate and just laws and elected officials that follow the will of the voters, not their personal ambitions or those of corporations.

The midterm election results tell us this.