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, the 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. 1896 was the only election in which Utah voted for a losing Democratic candidate. 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. , 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.
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Note A double dagger () indicates the national winner.
+ Year Winner Runner-up Other candidateCandidate Votes%Candidate Votes%Candidate Votes% 64,607 13,491 3 47,089 44,949 717 3 62,446 33,413 5,767 3 61,165 42,610 4,890 3 42,013 36,576 24,174 4 84,145 54,137 4,460 4 81,555 56,639 4,475 4 77,327 47,001 32,662 4 94,618 80,985 954 4 116,750 Herbert Hoover 84,795 4,087 4 150,246 64,555 1,121 4 154,277 93,151 200 4 150,088 97,891 340 4 149,151 124,402 2,679 4 194,190 135,364 4 215,631 118,364 4 205,361 169,248 100 4 219,628 180,682 4 238,728 156,665 26,906 4 323,643 126,284 28,549 4 337,908 182,110 13,284 4 439,687 124,266 30,284 5 469,105 155,369 2,447 5 428,442 207,343 7,473 5 322,632 203,400 183,429 5 361,911 221,633 66,461 5 515,096 203,053 35,850 5 663,742 241,199 11,305 5 596,030 327,670 12,012 5 740,600 251,813 12,572 6 515,231 310,676 243,690 6 865,140 560,282 38,447 6 883,818 562,566 16,902 6
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See also Elections in Utah List of United States presidential election results by state
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