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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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United States Presidential Elections In Utah
Utah is a state in the Mountain West sub-region of the Western United States. 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. In the 1912 election, Utah was one of only two states won by incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft. 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).

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. In the 2016 presidential election, independent Evan McMullin ran as an independent and won almost 21.5% of the vote in the state, his strongest performance in the nation. As of 2020, the Republican Party has won Utah in 17 of the last 18 presidential elections. Recent national surveys show Utah to be one of the most Republican states in the nation.

Presidential elections

Key for parties
  American Independent Party – (AI)
  American Party – (A)
  Constitution Party – (CP)
  Democratic Party – (D)
  Farmer-Labor Party – (FL)
  Green Party – (G)
  Independent candidate – (I)
  Libertarian Party – (LI)
  Progressive Party (1912) – (PR-1912)
  Progressive Party (1924) – (PR-1924)
  Progressive Party (1948) – (PR-1948)
  Reform Party – (RE)
  Republican Party – (R)
  Socialist Party of America – (S)
  Socialist Workers Party – (SW)
  Union Party – (U)
Note – A double dagger (‡) indicates the national winner.
Presidential elections in Utah from 1896 to present
Year Winner Runner-up Other candidate EV Ref.
Candidate Votes % Candidate Votes % Candidate Votes %
1896
 William Jennings Bryan (D) 64,607 82.73% William McKinley (R) ‡ 13,491 17.27%
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1900
 William McKinley (R) ‡ 47,089 50.59% William Jennings Bryan (D) 44,949 48.3% Eugene Debs (S) 717 0.77% 3
1904
 Theodore Roosevelt (R)‡ 62,446 61.45% Alton B. Parker (D) 33,413 32.88% Eugene Debs (S) 5,767 5.67% 3
1908
 William Howard Taft (R)‡ 61,165 56.24% William Jennings Bryan (D) 42,610 39.18% Eugene Debs (S) 4,890 4.5% 3
1912
 William Howard Taft (R) 42,013 37.42% Woodrow Wilson (D)‡ 36,576 32.58% Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912) 24,174 21.53% 4
1916
 Woodrow Wilson (D)‡ 84,145 58.78% Charles Evans Hughes (R) 54,137 37.82% Allan L. Benson (S) 4,460 3.12% 4
1920
 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
1924
 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
1928
 Herbert Hoover (R)‡ 94,618 53.58% Al Smith (D) 80,985 45.86% Norman Thomas (S) 954 0.54% 4
1932
 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ 116,750 56.52% Herbert Hoover (R) 84,795 41.05% Norman Thomas (S) 4,087 1.98% 4
1936
 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ 150,246 69.34% Alf Landon (R) 64,555 29.79% William Lemke (U) 1,121 0.52% 4
1940
 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ 154,277 62.25% Wendell Willkie (R) 93,151 37.59% Norman Thomas (S) 200 0.08% 4
1944
 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ 150,088 60.44% Thomas E. Dewey (R) 97,891 39.42% Norman Thomas (S) 340 0.14% 4
1948
 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
1952
 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ 194,190 58.93% Adlai Stevenson (D) 135,364 41.07%
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1956
 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ 215,631 64.56% Adlai Stevenson (D) 118,364 35.44%
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1960
 Richard Nixon (R) 205,361 54.81% John F. Kennedy (D) ‡ 169,248 45.17% Farrell Dobbs (SW) 100 0.03% 4
1964
 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡ 219,628 54.71% Barry Goldwater (R) 180,682 45.01%
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1968
 Richard Nixon (R) ‡ 238,728 56.49% Hubert Humphrey (D) 156,665 37.07% George Wallace (AI) 26,906 6.37% 4
1972
 Richard Nixon (R) ‡ 323,643 67.64% George McGovern (D) 126,284 26.39% John G. Schmitz (AI) 28,549 5.97% 4
1976
 Gerald Ford (R) 337,908 62.44% Jimmy Carter (D) ‡ 182,110 33.65% Thomas J. Anderson (A) 13,284 2.45% 4
1980
 Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ 439,687 72.77% Jimmy Carter (D) 124,266 20.57% John B. Anderson (I) 30,284 5.01% 5
1984
 Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ 469,105 74.5% Walter Mondale (D) 155,369 24.68% David Bergland (LI) 2,447 0.39% 5
1988
 George H. W. Bush (R) ‡ 428,442 66.22% Michael Dukakis (D) 207,343 32.05% Ron Paul (LI) 7,473 1.16% 5
1992
 George H. W. Bush (R) 322,632 43.36% Ross Perot (I) 203,400 27.34% Bill Clinton (D) ‡ 183,429 24.65% 5
1996
 Bob Dole (R) 361,911 54.37% Bill Clinton (D) ‡ 221,633 33.3% Ross Perot (RE) 66,461 9.98% 5
2000
 George W. Bush (R) ‡ 515,096 66.83% Al Gore (D) 203,053 26.34% Ralph Nader (G) 35,850 4.65% 5
2004
 George W. Bush (R)‡ 663,742 71.54% John Kerry (D) 241,199 26% Ralph Nader (I) 11,305 1.22% 5
2008
 John McCain (R) 596,030 62.58% Barack Obama (D)‡ 327,670 34.41% Chuck Baldwin (CP) 12,012 1.26% 5
2012
 Mitt Romney (R) 740,600 72.79% Barack Obama (D)‡ 251,813 24.75% Gary Johnson (LI) 12,572 1.24% 6
2016
 Donald Trump (R)‡ 515,231 45.54% Hillary Clinton (D) 310,676 27.46% Evan McMullin (I) 243,690 21.54% 6
2020
 Donald Trump (R) 865,140 58.13% Joe Biden (D)‡ 560,282 37.65% Jo Jorgensen (LI) 38,447 2.58% 6

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