2024 United States presidential election in Utah

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2024 United States presidential election in Utah

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Incumbent President Joe Biden Democratic

The 2024 United States presidential election in Utah is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Utah voters will choose 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. ^[1]

Owing largely to its conservative Mormon majority, Utah has not been won by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon B Johnson's 1964 landslide — granted that the GOP margin of victory has been lower than usual in the past two elections due to a considerable share of third-party votes statewide and growing Democratic trends in Salt Lake and Summit Counties — and is expected to be won comfortably by Republican nominee Donald Trump. ^[2]

Incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden is running for reelection to a second term. ^[3] Former President Donald Trump is also running for reelection to a second non-consecutive term after losing in 2020. ^[4] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gathered the required signatures to qualify for the ballot, as he announced in early January. ^[5]

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Main article: 2024 Utah Democratic presidential 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.

Popular vote share by county

  Biden

•   70–80%
•   80–90%
•   >90%

Utah Democratic primary, March 5, 2024

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
			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
Source: [6]

Republican primary

Main article: 2024 Utah Republican presidential caucuses

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.

Popular vote share by county

  Trump

•   50–60%
•   60–70%
•   70–80%
•   80–90%
•   >90%

  Haley

•   50–60%

Utah Republican caucus, March 5, 2024

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
			Bound	Unbound	Total
Donald Trump	48,350	56.4%	40
Nikki Haley	36,621	42.7%
Ryan Binkley (withdrawn)	826	1.0%
Total:	85,797	100.00%	40		40
Source: [7]

General election

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Cook Political Report [8]	Solid R	December 19, 2023
Inside Elections [9]	Solid R	April 26, 2023
Sabato's Crystal Ball [10]	Solid R	June 29, 2023
Decision Desk HQ/The Hill [11]	Solid R	December 14, 2023
CNalysis [12]	Solid R	December 30, 2023
CNN [13]	Solid R	January 14, 2024

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size [lower-alpha 1]	Margin of error	Donald Trump Republican	Joe Biden Democratic	Other / Undecided
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%

Debate

Main article: 2024 United States presidential debates

The third and final presidential debate for the general election is scheduled to be held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on October 9, 2024, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Whether either major party nominee will attend the debates has been called into question due to conflicts with the commission regarding the 2020 debates. ^[14]

Candidate ballot access

See also: Ballot access in the 2024 United States presidential election

The following candidates have qualified for ballot access in Utah: ^[15]

• Claudia De la Cruz / Karina Garcia, unaffiliated ^{[lower-alpha 2]}
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. / Nicole Shanahan, unaffiliated

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.” ^[16] 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. ^[17] Kennedy later qualified to appear on the Utah ballot on December 28, 2023, marking the first state to award him official ballot access. ^[18]

See also

• United States presidential elections in Utah
• 2024 United States presidential election
• 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries
• 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
• 2024 United States elections

Notes

1. Key:
   A – all adults
   RV – registered voters
   LV – likely voters
   V – unclear
2. De la Cruz and Garcia were nominated by the Party for Socialism and Liberation but are listed on the ballot as independents because the party did not have ballot access.

References

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