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Presidential elections in Utah
Number of elections 32 Voted Democratic 8 Voted Republican 24 Voted other 0 Voted for winning candidate 23 Voted for losing candidate 9
Utah is a
state in the
Mountain West sub-region of the
Western United States .
[1] Since its
admission to the Union in January 1896, it has participated in 32
United States presidential elections . In the
1896 presidential election , first presidential election in which the state participated, Utah was won in a landslide by
Democrat
William Jennings Bryan , who received almost 83 percent of the state's vote. However, the state would quickly swing towards the
Republican Party in the years that followed, although it would remain a
swing state at the presidential level well into the 1940s.
[3] In the
1912 election , Utah was one of only two states won by incumbent Republican President
William Howard Taft .
[4] However, the state would vote for the Democratic nominee by a large margin in
1916 ,
1932 ,
1936 ,
1940 , and
1944 , and by a narrow margin in
1948 . However, since the latter election, the state has become very heavily Republican and has only voted for a Democratic presidential nominee once (in
1964 , amidst a national Democratic landslide).
[3]
In the
1992 presidential election , Utah was one of only two states in which
independent
Ross Perot finished second, placing ahead of Democrat
Bill Clinton .
[6] In the
2016 presidential election , independent
Evan McMullin ran
ran as an independent and won almost 21.5% of the vote in the state, his strongest performance in the nation.
[7]
[8]
[9] As of 2020
[update] , the Republican Party has won Utah in 17 of the last 18 presidential elections.
[10] Recent national surveys show Utah to be one of the most Republican states in the nation.
[11]
Presidential elections
Key for parties
Note – A double dagger (‡) indicates the national winner.
Presidential elections in Utah from 1896 to present
Year
Winner
Runner-up
Other candidate
[a]
EV
Ref.
Candidate
Votes
%
Candidate
Votes
%
Candidate
Votes
%
William Jennings Bryan
(D)
64,607
82.73%
William McKinley
(R) ‡
13,491
17.27%
–
–
–
3
William McKinley
(R) ‡
47,089
50.59%
William Jennings Bryan
(D)
44,949
48.3%
Eugene Debs
(S)
717
0.77%
3
Theodore Roosevelt
(R) ‡
62,446
61.45%
Alton B. Parker
(D)
33,413
32.88%
Eugene Debs
(S)
5,767
5.67%
3
William Howard Taft
(R) ‡
61,165
56.24%
William Jennings Bryan
(D)
42,610
39.18%
Eugene Debs
(S)
4,890
4.5%
3
William Howard Taft
(R)
42,013
37.42%
Woodrow Wilson
(D) ‡
36,576
32.58%
Theodore Roosevelt
(PR-1912)
24,174
21.53%
4
Woodrow Wilson
(D) ‡
84,145
58.78%
Charles Evans Hughes
(R)
54,137
37.82%
Allan L. Benson
(S)
4,460
3.12%
4
Warren G. Harding
(R) ‡
81,555
55.93%
James M. Cox
(D)
56,639
38.84%
Parley P. Christensen
(FL)
4,475
3.07%
4
Calvin Coolidge
(R) ‡
77,327
49.26%
John W. Davis
(D)
47,001
29.94%
Robert M. La Follette
(PR-1924)
32,662
20.81%
4
Herbert Hoover
(R) ‡
94,618
53.58%
Al Smith
(D)
80,985
45.86%
Norman Thomas
(S)
954
0.54%
4
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(D) ‡
116,750
56.52%
Herbert Hoover
(R)
84,795
41.05%
Norman Thomas
(S)
4,087
1.98%
4
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(D) ‡
150,246
69.34%
Alf Landon
(R)
64,555
29.79%
William Lemke
(U)
1,121
0.52%
4
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(D) ‡
154,277
62.25%
Wendell Willkie
(R)
93,151
37.59%
Norman Thomas
(S)
200
0.08%
4
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(D) ‡
150,088
60.44%
Thomas E. Dewey
(R)
97,891
39.42%
Norman Thomas
(S)
340
0.14%
4
Harry S. Truman
(D) ‡
149,151
53.98%
Thomas E. Dewey
(R)
124,402
45.02%
Henry A. Wallace
(PR-1948)
2,679
0.97%
4
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(R) ‡
194,190
58.93%
Adlai Stevenson
(D)
135,364
41.07%
–
–
–
4
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(R) ‡
215,631
64.56%
Adlai Stevenson
(D)
118,364
35.44%
–
–
–
4
Richard Nixon
(R)
205,361
54.81%
John F. Kennedy
(D) ‡
169,248
45.17%
Farrell Dobbs
(SW)
100
0.03%
4
Lyndon B. Johnson
(D) ‡
219,628
54.71%
Barry Goldwater
(R)
180,682
45.01%
–
–
–
4
Richard Nixon
(R) ‡
238,728
56.49%
Hubert Humphrey
(D)
156,665
37.07%
George Wallace
(AI)
26,906
6.37%
4
Richard Nixon
(R) ‡
323,643
67.64%
George McGovern
(D)
126,284
26.39%
John G. Schmitz
(AI)
28,549
5.97%
4
Gerald Ford
(R)
337,908
62.44%
Jimmy Carter
(D) ‡
182,110
33.65%
Thomas J. Anderson
(A)
13,284
2.45%
4
Ronald Reagan
(R) ‡
439,687
72.77%
Jimmy Carter
(D)
124,266
20.57%
John B. Anderson
(I)
30,284
5.01%
5
Ronald Reagan
(R) ‡
469,105
74.5%
Walter Mondale
(D)
155,369
24.68%
David Bergland
(LI)
2,447
0.39%
5
George H. W. Bush
(R) ‡
428,442
66.22%
Michael Dukakis
(D)
207,343
32.05%
Ron Paul
(LI)
7,473
1.16%
5
George H. W. Bush
(R)
322,632
43.36%
Ross Perot
(I)
203,400
27.34%
Bill Clinton
(D) ‡
183,429
24.65%
5
Bob Dole
(R)
361,911
54.37%
Bill Clinton
(D) ‡
221,633
33.3%
Ross Perot
(RE)
66,461
9.98%
5
George W. Bush
(R) ‡
515,096
66.83%
Al Gore
(D)
203,053
26.34%
Ralph Nader
(G)
35,850
4.65%
5
George W. Bush
(R) ‡
663,742
71.54%
John Kerry
(D)
241,199
26%
Ralph Nader
(I)
11,305
1.22%
5
John McCain
(R)
596,030
62.58%
Barack Obama
(D) ‡
327,670
34.41%
Chuck Baldwin
(CP)
12,012
1.26%
5
Mitt Romney
(R)
740,600
72.79%
Barack Obama
(D) ‡
251,813
24.75%
Gary Johnson
(LI)
12,572
1.24%
6
Donald Trump
(R) ‡
515,231
45.54%
Hillary Clinton
(D)
310,676
27.46%
Evan McMullin
(I)
243,690
21.54%
6
Donald Trump
(R)
865,140
58.13%
Joe Biden
(D) ‡
560,282
37.65%
Jo Jorgensen
(LI)
38,447
2.58%
6
Graph
See also
Notes
^ For the purpose of this list, other candidates are defined as those who finished in third place in the state.
^ The
American Socialist Party 's candidate
Eugene Debs received 8,999 votes ( 8.02%).
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