# 2004 United States presidential election in Utah

"none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]]
Elections in Utah :
Federal government
Presidential elections
1896
1900
1904
1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
1932
1936
1940
1944
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Presidential primaries
Democratic
2000
2004
2008
2016
2020
2024
Republican
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
U.S. Senate elections
1896
1897
1899
1901 sp
1903
1905
1908
1909
1911
1914
1916
1920
1922
1926
1928
1932
1934
1938
1940
1944
1946
1950
1952
1956
1958
1962
1964
1968
1970
1974
1976
1980
1982
1986
1988
1992
1994
1998
2000
2004
2006
2010
2012
2016
2018
2022
2024
2028
U.S. House of Representatives elections
1895
1896
1898
1900
AL sp
1902
1904
1906
1908
1910
1912
1914
1916
1918
1920
1922
1924
1926
1928
1930
2nd sp
1932
1934
1936
1938
1940
1942
1944
1946
1948
1950
1952
1954
1956
1958
1960
1962
1964
1966
1968
1970
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2017
3rd sp
2018
2020
2022
2023
2nd sp
2024
2026 :
State government
General elections
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
Gubernatorial elections
1895
1900
1904
1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
1932
1936
1940
1944
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2010 sp
2012
2016
2020
2024
Attorney General elections
1996
2020
2024
Auditor elections
2024
Treasurer elections
2022 sp
2024
State Senate elections
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
House of Representatives elections
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024 :
Ballot measures
2004
Amendment 3
2018
Proposition 4
2020
Amendment A :
Salt Lake City
Mayoral elections
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023 :
Salt Lake County
Mayoral elections
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024 :
vte :
The 2004 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 2, 2004. It was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Utah was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by a 45.5% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all leading news organizations considered this a state Bush would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. It is a strongly Republican state and has supported the party's nominee in every presidential election since 1968. With 71.54 percent of the popular vote, Utah was Bush's strongest state in the 2004 election.
This was the first of five instances in which a presidential candidate gained over 70% of a state's vote after Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide. The others are Mitt Romney in Utah in 2012, Barack Obama in Hawaii in 2008 and 2012 and Donald Trump in Wyoming in 2024. Three of these involved a candidate with a close tie to the state: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, and Mitt Romney, as the first Mormon on a major-party presidential ticket, was popular in Mormon-majority Utah and would later represent the state in the United States Senate.

## Primaries

* 2004 Utah Democratic presidential primary

## Campaign
### Predictions

There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.
| Source | Ranking |
| D.C. Political Report | Solid R |
| Cook Political Report | Solid R |
| Research 2000 | Solid R |
| Zogby International | Likely R |
| Washington Post | Likely R |
| Washington Dispatch | Likely R |
| Washington Times | Solid R |
| The New York Times | Solid R |
| CNN | Likely R |
| Newsweek | Solid R |
| Associated Press | Solid R |
| Rasmussen Reports | Likely R |

### Polling

The final three polls averaged Bush with 67 percent to Kerry with 25 percent.

### Fundraising

Bush raised $561,645. Kerry raised $262,031.

### Advertising and visits

Neither campaign advertised or visited this state during the fall election.

## Analysis

Republicans dominate Utah state politics because of the very high Mormon population that accounts for almost seventy percent of the residents throughout the state. Mormons have been known for having very conservative values. While every county voted for Bush, areas such as Summit County (ski resort), Moab (becoming an outpost for environmental activists), Carbon County (largely blue collar), Salt Lake City (urban area with some diversity) and San Juan County (economically distressed and mostly Native American) did give a somewhat greater proportion of their votes to Kerry. However, other areas were uniformly Republican in voting. Utah County's (home of Provo and Brigham Young University) Republican vote (86%) was by far the largest percentage of any county its size in America.

## Results

2004 United States presidential election in Utah :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes |
| | Republican | George W. Bush (incumbent) | 663,742 | 71.54% | 5 |
| | Democratic | John Kerry | 241,199 | 26.00% | 0 |
| | Unaffiliated | Ralph Nader | 11,305 | 1.22% | 0 |
| | Constitution Party | Michael Peroutka | 6,841 | 0.74% | 0 |
| | Libertarian Party | Michael Badnarik | 3,375 | 0.36% | 0 |
| | Personal Choice Party | Charles Jay | 946 | 0.10% | 0 |
| | Socialist Workers Party | Roger Calero | 393 | 0.04% | 0 |
| | Green Party | David Cobb | 39 | 0.00% | 0 |
| | Write Ins | Write Ins | 4 | 0.00% | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | 927,844 | 100.00% | 5 |
| Voter turnout (Voting age population) | Voter turnout (Voting age population) | Voter turnout (Voting age population) | Voter turnout (Voting age population) | Voter turnout (Voting age population) | 57.7% |

### Results by county

| County | George W. Bush Republican | George W. Bush Republican | John Kerry Democratic | John Kerry Democratic | Ralph Nader Unaffiliated | Ralph Nader Unaffiliated | Michael Peroutka Constitution | Michael Peroutka Constitution | Various candidates Other parties | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Margin | Total votes cast |
| County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | Total votes cast |
| Beaver | 2,023 | 79.52% | 493 | 19.38% | 12 | 0.47% | 9 | 0.35% | 7 | 0.28% | 1,530 | 60.14% | 2,544 |
| Box Elder | 15,751 | 85.75% | 2,244 | 12.22% | 145 | 0.79% | 144 | 0.78% | 84 | 0.46% | 13,507 | 73.53% | 18,368 |
| Cache | 32,486 | 81.76% | 6,375 | 16.05% | 413 | 1.04% | 274 | 0.69% | 183 | 0.46% | 26,111 | 65.71% | 39,731 |
| Carbon | 4,950 | 58.18% | 3,415 | 40.14% | 83 | 0.98% | 22 | 0.26% | 38 | 0.45% | 1,535 | 18.04% | 8,508 |
| Daggett | 380 | 76.15% | 108 | 21.64% | 6 | 1.20% | 3 | 0.60% | 2 | 0.20% | 272 | 54.51% | 499 |
| Davis | 86,187 | 78.88% | 20,893 | 19.12% | 1,055 | 0.97% | 695 | 0.64% | 438 | 0.41% | 65,294 | 59.76% | 109,268 |
| Duchesne | 4,742 | 85.35% | 738 | 13.28% | 27 | 0.49% | 32 | 0.58% | 17 | 0.31% | 4,004 | 72.07% | 5,556 |
| Emery | 3,781 | 80.83% | 831 | 17.76% | 23 | 0.49% | 29 | 0.62% | 14 | 0.30% | 2,950 | 63.07% | 4,678 |
| Garfield | 1,848 | 85.48% | 264 | 12.21% | 22 | 1.02% | 16 | 0.74% | 12 | 0.56% | 1,584 | 73.27% | 2,162 |
| Grand | 2,130 | 51.14% | 1,858 | 44.61% | 118 | 2.83% | 20 | 0.48% | 39 | 0.94% | 272 | 6.53% | 4,165 |
| Iron | 12,815 | 82.97% | 2,267 | 14.68% | 111 | 0.72% | 169 | 1.09% | 84 | 0.54% | 10,548 | 68.29% | 15,446 |
| Juab | 2,681 | 78.46% | 605 | 17.71% | 20 | 0.59% | 98 | 2.87% | 13 | 0.38% | 2,076 | 60.75% | 3,417 |
| Kane | 2,414 | 79.12% | 576 | 18.88% | 25 | 0.82% | 19 | 0.62% | 17 | 0.55% | 1,838 | 60.24% | 3,051 |
| Millard | 4,084 | 83.74% | 626 | 12.84% | 28 | 0.57% | 118 | 2.42% | 21 | 0.43% | 3,458 | 70.90% | 4,877 |
| Morgan | 3,301 | 85.94% | 472 | 12.29% | 25 | 0.65% | 24 | 0.62% | 19 | 0.49% | 2,829 | 73.65% | 3,841 |
| Piute | 646 | 83.57% | 123 | 15.91% | 3 | 0.39% | 1 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 523 | 67.66% | 773 |
| Rich | 922 | 88.91% | 109 | 10.51% | 5 | 0.48% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 813 | 78.40% | 1,037 |
| Salt Lake | 215,728 | 59.57% | 135,949 | 37.54% | 6,025 | 1.66% | 2,199 | 0.61% | 2,237 | 0.62% | 79,779 | 22.03% | 362,138 |
| San Juan | 2,971 | 60.02% | 1,906 | 38.51% | 30 | 0.61% | 24 | 0.48% | 19 | 0.38% | 1,065 | 21.51% | 4,950 |
| Sanpete | 7,004 | 82.33% | 1,189 | 13.98% | 58 | 0.68% | 217 | 2.55% | 39 | 0.46% | 5,815 | 68.35% | 8,507 |
| Sevier | 6,597 | 86.34% | 920 | 12.04% | 37 | 0.48% | 60 | 0.79% | 27 | 0.35% | 5,677 | 74.30% | 7,641 |
| Summit | 7,936 | 51.83% | 6,977 | 45.57% | 265 | 1.73% | 36 | 0.24% | 98 | 0.64% | 959 | 6.26% | 15,312 |
| Tooele | 12,181 | 73.10% | 4,130 | 24.78% | 150 | 0.90% | 111 | 0.67% | 92 | 0.55% | 8,051 | 48.32% | 16,664 |
| Uintah | 8,518 | 85.55% | 1,266 | 12.71% | 42 | 0.42% | 99 | 0.99% | 32 | 0.32% | 7,252 | 72.84% | 9,957 |
| Utah | 128,269 | 85.99% | 17,357 | 11.64% | 1,289 | 0.86% | 1,621 | 1.09% | 637 | 0.43% | 110,912 | 74.35% | 149,173 |
| Wasatch | 5,503 | 73.26% | 1,854 | 24.68% | 60 | 0.80% | 65 | 0.87% | 30 | 0.40% | 3,649 | 48.58% | 7,512 |
| Washington | 35,633 | 80.95% | 7,513 | 17.07% | 301 | 0.68% | 362 | 0.82% | 209 | 0.47% | 28,120 | 63.88% | 44,018 |
| Wayne | 1,062 | 78.09% | 279 | 20.51% | 10 | 0.74% | 5 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.29% | 783 | 57.58% | 1,360 |
| Weber | 51,199 | 70.43% | 19,862 | 27.32% | 917 | 1.26% | 368 | 0.51% | 345 | 0.47% | 31,337 | 43.11% | 72,691 |
| Totals | 663,742 | 71.54% | 241,199 | 26.00% | 11,305 | 1.22% | 6,841 | 0.74% | 4,757 | 0.51% | 422,543 | 45.54% | 927,844 |

### Results by congressional district

Bush won all 3 congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.
| District | Bush | Kerry | Representative |
| 1st | 73% | 25% | Rob Bishop |
| 2nd | 66% | 31% | Jim Matheson |
| 3rd | 77% | 20% | Chris Cannon |

## Electors

Technically the voters of Utah cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Utah is allocated five electors because it has three congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of five electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins a plurality of votes in the state is awarded all five electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 5 were pledged to Bush/Cheney:
* Olene S. Walker
* Gayle McKeachnie
* Lewis K. Billings
* Joseph A. Cannon
* Scott F. Simpson