# 2024 United States presidential election in Utah

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The 2024 United States presidential election in Utah took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Utah voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Utah has six electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
Republican Donald Trump carried Utah by 21.6%, an improvement over his past two statewide victories. Trump's popular vote percentage increased by 1.26% compared to the previous presidential election. Prior to the election, all major news organizations once again considered Utah a state Trump would win, or a red state.

## Primary elections
### Democratic primary

The Utah Democratic primary was held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Incumbent president Joe Biden easily won the state, facing minor opposition from activist Marianne Williamson and Congressman Dean Phillips.
Utah Democratic primary, March 5, 2024 :
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | Actual delegate count | Actual delegate count |
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total |
| Joe Biden (incumbent) | 58,872 | 86.9% | 30 | | |
| Marianne Williamson | 3,521 | 5.2% | | | |
| Dean Phillips | 3,024 | 4.5% | | | |
| Gabriel Cornejo | 1,503 | 2.2% | | | |
| Frankie Lozada | 859 | 1.3% | | | |
| Total: | 67,779 | 100% | 34 | | 34 |

### Republican primary

The Utah Republican caucuses were held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Former president Donald Trump defeated former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in one of his weakest performances of the greater Republican primaries. The state GOP returned to organizing a caucus after its use of the primary system in 2020, which significantly lowered turnout.
Utah Republican caucus, March 5, 2024 :
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | Actual delegate count | Actual delegate count |
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Bound | Unbound | Total |
| Donald Trump | 48,350 | 56.35% | 40 | | 40 |
| Nikki Haley | 36,621 | 42.68% | | | |
| Ryan Binkley (withdrawn) | 826 | 0.96% | | | |
| Total: | 85,797 | 100.00% | 40 | | 40 |

## General election
### Predictions

| Source | Ranking | As of |
| Cook Political Report | Solid R | December 19, 2023 |
| Inside Elections | Solid R | April 26, 2023 |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball | Safe R | June 29, 2023 |
| Decision Desk HQ/The Hill | Safe R | December 14, 2023 |
| CNalysis | Solid R | December 30, 2023 |
| CNN | Solid R | January 14, 2024 |
| The Economist | Safe R | June 12, 2024 |
| 538 | Solid R | June 11, 2024 |
| RCP | Solid R | June 26, 2024 |
| NBC News | Safe R | October 6, 2024 |

### Candidate ballot access

As of August 2024, the following candidates have been designated as "Election Candidates":
* Kamala Harris / Tim Walz, Democratic
* Claudia De la Cruz / Karina Garcia, unaffiliated
* Lucifer "Justin Case" Everylove, unaffiliated
* Cornel West / Melina Abdullah, unaffiliated
* Donald Trump / JD Vance, Republican

#### Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lawsuit

On December 5, 2023, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a lawsuit against lieutenant governor Deidre Henderson and state elections director Ryan Cowley, arguing that the state's requirement for unaffiliated candidates to attain 1,000 verified signatures before the January 8 deadline is unconstitutional and that it forces Kennedy's campaign to hire professional petition circulators. In the 2020 election, the filing deadline was August 17, and was moved up in a bill passed by the Utah State Legislature in February 2022. Campaign lawyer Paul Rossi argued that the deadline was made "to block any third-party candidates from appearing on Utah's ballot," showing "an absolute contempt for the Constitution." A court filing was made by state attorney general Sean Reyes on December 7, stating that Henderson and Cowley have agreed to not enforce the deadline until March 5, 2024, per request of senior judge David Nuffer. Kennedy later qualified to appear on the Utah ballot on December 28, 2023, marking the first state to award him official ballot access. Kennedy would later withdraw from the ballot in Utah after the suspension of his campaign and endorse Donald Trump for president.

### Polling

Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Donald Trump Republican | Kamala Harris Democratic | Other / Undecided |
| ActiVote | October 7–30, 2024 | 400 (LV) | ± 4.9% | 60% | 40% | – |
| Noble Predictive Insights | October 2–7, 2024 | 600 (RV) | ± 4.0% | 52% | 39% | 9% |
| Noble Predictive Insights | October 2–7, 2024 | 539 (LV) | ± 4.2% | 54% | 38% | 8% |
| Public Policy Polling (D) | September 27–28, 2024 | 612 (LV) | ± 4.0% | 54% | 39% | 7% |
Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein vs. Chase Oliver
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Donald Trump Republican | Kamala Harris Democratic | Cornel West Independent | Jill Stein Green | Chase Oliver Libertarian | Other / Undecided |
| Noble Predictive Insights | October 25–28, 2024 | 695 (LV) | ± 3.7% | 54% | 34% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 11% |
| Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics | October 15–19, 2024 | 813 (RV) | ± 3.4% | 61% | 30% | 2% | 1% | – | 6% |
| Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics | October 15–19, 2024 | 813 (RV) | ± 3.4% | 63% | 31% | 4% | 2% | – | – |
| Noble Predictive Insights | October 2–7, 2024 | 600 (RV) | ± 4.0% | 51% | 37% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 8% |
| Noble Predictive Insights | October 2–7, 2024 | 539 (LV) | ± 4.2% | 54% | 36% | 2% | 0% | 2% | 6% |
Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Donald Trump Republican | Joe Biden Democratic | Other / Undecided |
| Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics | June 4–7, 2024 | 857 (RV) | ± 3.4% | 57% | 25% | 18% |
| John Zogby Strategies | April 13–21, 2024 | 414 (LV) | – | 46% | 43% | 11% |
| Noble Predictive Insights | April 8–16, 2024 | 600 (RV) | ± 4.0% | 54% | 26% | 20% |
| Mainstreet Research/Florida Atlantic University | February 29 – March 3, 2024 | 174 (RV) | – | 46% | 37% | 17% |
| Mainstreet Research/Florida Atlantic University | February 29 – March 3, 2024 | 166 (LV) | – | 46% | 38% | 16% |
| Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics | January 16–21, 2024 | 801 (RV) | ± 3.0% | 43% | 33% | 24% |
| Emerson College | October 25–28, 2022 | 825 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 47% | 34% | 19% |
Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Donald Trump Republican | Joe Biden Democratic | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Independent | Other / Undecided |
| Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics | June 4–7, 2024 | 857 (RV) | ± 3.4% | 49% | 20% | 20% | 11% |
Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Donald Trump Republican | Joe Biden Democratic | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Independent | Cornel West Independent | Jill Stein Green | Other / Undecided |
| Noble Predictive Insights | April 8–16, 2024 | 600 (RV) | ± 4.0% | 47% | 23% | 13% | 1% | 1% | 15% |
Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Donald Trump Republican | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Independent | Other / Undecided |
| John Zogby Strategies | April 13–21, 2024 | 414 (LV) | – | 40% | 44% | 16% |
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Joe Biden
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Independent | Joe Biden Democratic | Other / Undecided |
| John Zogby Strategies | April 13–21, 2024 | 414 (LV) | – | 54% | 36% | 10% |

### Results

2024 United States presidential election in Utah :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Republican | Donald TrumpJD Vance | 883,818 | 59.39% | 1.26% |
| | Democratic | Kamala HarrisTim Walz | 562,566 | 37.81% | 0.14% |
| | Libertarian | Chase OliverMike ter Maat | 16,902 | 1.14% | 1.44% |
| | Constitution | Joel SkousenRik Combs | 8,402 | 0.56% | 0.19% |
| | Green | Jill SteinButch Ware | 8,222 | 0.55% | 0.21% |
| | Socialism and Liberation | Claudia De la CruzKarina Garcia | 3,189 | 0.21% | 0.13% |
| | Independent | Lucifer EveryloveN/A | 2,653 | 0.18% | N/A |
| | Independent | Cornel WestMelina Abdullah | 2,199 | 0.15% | N/A |
| | Write-in | Write-in | 543 | 0.04% | |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,488,494 | 100.00% | N/A |

#### By county

| County | Donald Trump Republican | Donald Trump Republican | Kamala Harris Democratic | Kamala Harris Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Margin | Total |
| County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | Total |
| Beaver | 2,781 | 86.29% | 394 | 12.22% | 48 | 1.49% | 2,387 | 74.07% | 3,223 |
| Box Elder | 22,853 | 77.91% | 5,274 | 17.98% | 1,205 | 4.11% | 17,579 | 59.93% | 29,332 |
| Cache | 39,457 | 64.27% | 18,718 | 30.49% | 3,213 | 5.24% | 20,739 | 33.78% | 61,388 |
| Carbon | 6,719 | 70.53% | 2,525 | 26.50% | 283 | 2.97% | 4,194 | 44.03% | 9,527 |
| Daggett | 443 | 80.40% | 101 | 18.33% | 7 | 1.27% | 342 | 62.07% | 551 |
| Davis | 101,293 | 59.37% | 59,895 | 35.11% | 9,428 | 5.52% | 41,398 | 24.26% | 170,616 |
| Duchesne | 7,815 | 86.57% | 1,009 | 11.18% | 203 | 2.25% | 6,806 | 75.39% | 9,027 |
| Emery | 4,341 | 86.18% | 603 | 11.97% | 93 | 1.85% | 3,738 | 74.21% | 5,037 |
| Garfield | 2,211 | 78.18% | 541 | 19.13% | 76 | 2.69% | 1,670 | 59.05% | 2,828 |
| Grand | 2,327 | 43.70% | 2,828 | 53.11% | 170 | 3.19% | -501 | -9.41% | 5,325 |
| Iron | 21,571 | 76.59% | 5,683 | 20.18% | 912 | 3.23% | 15,888 | 56.41% | 28,166 |
| Juab | 5,671 | 86.21% | 734 | 11.16% | 173 | 2.63% | 4,937 | 75.05% | 6,578 |
| Kane | 3,277 | 72.56% | 1,137 | 25.18% | 102 | 2.26% | 2,140 | 47.38% | 4,516 |
| Millard | 5,558 | 86.16% | 713 | 11.05% | 180 | 2.79% | 4,845 | 75.11% | 6,451 |
| Morgan | 5,300 | 76.26% | 1,256 | 18.07% | 394 | 5.67% | 4,044 | 58.19% | 6,950 |
| Piute | 854 | 88.13% | 94 | 9.70% | 21 | 2.17% | 760 | 78.43% | 969 |
| Rich | 1,211 | 83.29% | 214 | 14.72% | 29 | 1.99% | 997 | 68.57% | 1,454 |
| Salt Lake | 221,555 | 42.86% | 273,658 | 52.94% | 21,678 | 4.20% | -52,103 | -10.08% | 516,891 |
| San Juan | 3,613 | 56.54% | 2,581 | 40.39% | 196 | 3.07% | 1,032 | 16.15% | 6,390 |
| Sanpete | 10,653 | 81.19% | 1,906 | 14.53% | 562 | 4.28% | 8,747 | 66.66% | 13,121 |
| Sevier | 9,526 | 86.67% | 1,236 | 11.25% | 229 | 2.08% | 8,290 | 75.42% | 10,991 |
| Summit | 10,783 | 41.12% | 14,612 | 55.72% | 829 | 3.16% | -3,829 | -14.60% | 26,224 |
| Tooele | 23,484 | 68.33% | 9,560 | 27.82% | 1,322 | 3.85% | 13,924 | 40.51% | 34,366 |
| Uintah | 13,599 | 85.37% | 1,952 | 12.25% | 378 | 2.38% | 11,647 | 73.12% | 15,929 |
| Utah | 203,476 | 66.65% | 84,937 | 27.82% | 16,858 | 5.53% | 118,539 | 38.83% | 305,271 |
| Wasatch | 11,495 | 61.42% | 6,459 | 34.51% | 762 | 4.07% | 5,036 | 26.91% | 18,716 |
| Washington | 73,165 | 74.39% | 22,327 | 22.70% | 2,860 | 2.91% | 50,838 | 51.69% | 98,352 |
| Wayne | 1,238 | 74.58% | 381 | 22.95% | 41 | 2.47% | 857 | 51.63% | 1,660 |
| Weber | 67,549 | 59.49% | 41,238 | 36.32% | 4,762 | 4.19% | 26,311 | 23.17% | 113,549 |
| Totals | 883,818 | 58.40% | 562,566 | 37.17% | 67,014 | 4.43% | 321,252 | 21.23% | 1,513,398 |

#### By congressional district

Trump won all four congressional districts.
| District | Trump | Harris | Representative |
| 1st | 58% | 38% | Blake Moore |
| 2nd | 59% | 39% | Celeste Maloy |
| 3rd | 58% | 39% | John Curtis (118th Congress) |
| 3rd | 58% | 39% | Mike Kennedy (119th Congress) |
| 4th | 62% | 35% | Burgess Owens |

## Analysis

A Mountain West state, Utah has not been won by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon B. Johnson did in his 1964 landslide and is a strongly red state, a trait vastly owed to the state's conservative Mormon base. While the state has voted considerably less Republican in more recent presidential elections than it did during the 1970s, 1980s, 2000s and early 2010s, Utah remains a GOP stronghold at both the federal and state levels.
While Trump won the state handily, Utah wound up having the second smallest shift to the right in the nation in 2024 after Washington state. Trump improved his margin by just over 1%, compared to the national rightward swing of 6%. Despite Trump's improvement in margin from 2020, Utah was the only state where Harris improved on Biden's percentage of the vote.
Democrat Kamala Harris won the same three counties that Joe Biden did in 2020: Salt Lake, home to the state capital and largest city Salt Lake City; Summit, home to a handful of ski resorts and SLC suburbs; and Grand, home to Moab and nearby Arches National Park. Trump became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Grand County since William McKinley in 1900.