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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in Utah

George W. Bush (Republican) beat John Kerry (Democrat) in Utah in 2004, 71.5% to 26.0%, a margin of 45.5 points and 422,543 votes.

Utah voted 43.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+2.5.

The Republican hold continued from 2000, when George W. Bush also won.

Republicans led in 29 of the 29 counties. The largest, Salt Lake, cast 362,138 votes and went to the Republican by 22.0 points. The closest was Grand, where 272 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
George W. Bush won Republican 663,742 71.5%
John Kerry Democratic 241,199 26.0%
All other candidates 22,903 2.5%
Total927,844

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Salt Lake 135,949 37.5% 215,728 59.6% 10,461 362,138 R+22.0
Utah 17,357 11.6% 128,269 86.0% 3,547 149,173 R+74.4
Davis 20,893 19.1% 86,187 78.9% 2,188 109,268 R+59.8
Weber 19,862 27.3% 51,199 70.4% 1,630 72,691 R+43.1
Washington 7,513 17.1% 35,633 81.0% 872 44,018 R+63.9
Cache 6,375 16.0% 32,486 81.8% 870 39,731 R+65.7
Box Elder 2,244 12.2% 15,751 85.8% 373 18,368 R+73.5
Tooele 4,130 24.8% 12,181 73.1% 353 16,664 R+48.3
Iron 2,267 14.7% 12,815 83.0% 364 15,446 R+68.3
Summit 6,977 45.6% 7,936 51.8% 399 15,312 R+6.3
Uintah 1,266 12.7% 8,518 85.5% 173 9,957 R+72.8
Carbon 3,415 40.1% 4,950 58.2% 143 8,508 R+18.0
Sanpete 1,189 14.0% 7,004 82.3% 314 8,507 R+68.4
Sevier 920 12.0% 6,597 86.3% 124 7,641 R+74.3
Wasatch 1,854 24.7% 5,503 73.3% 155 7,512 R+48.6
Duchesne 738 13.3% 4,742 85.3% 76 5,556 R+72.1
San Juan 1,906 38.5% 2,971 60.0% 73 4,950 R+21.5
Millard 626 12.8% 4,084 83.7% 167 4,877 R+70.9
Emery 831 17.8% 3,781 80.8% 66 4,678 R+63.1
Grand 1,858 44.6% 2,130 51.1% 177 4,165 R+6.5
Morgan 472 12.3% 3,301 85.9% 68 3,841 R+73.7
Juab 605 17.7% 2,681 78.5% 131 3,417 R+60.8
Kane 576 18.9% 2,414 79.1% 61 3,051 R+60.2
Beaver 493 19.4% 2,023 79.5% 28 2,544 R+60.1
Garfield 264 12.2% 1,848 85.5% 50 2,162 R+73.3
Wayne 279 20.5% 1,062 78.1% 19 1,360 R+57.6
Rich 109 10.5% 922 88.9% 6 1,037 R+78.4
Piute 123 15.9% 646 83.6% 4 773 R+67.7
Daggett 108 21.6% 380 76.2% 11 499 R+54.5

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Utah in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+21.6
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+20.5
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+18.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+48.0
2008 John McCain (R) R+28.2
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+45.5
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+40.5
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+21.1
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+18.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+34.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+49.8
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+52.2
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+28.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+41.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+19.4
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+9.4
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.6
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+29.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+17.9
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+9.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+24.7
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+39.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+15.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+7.7
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+19.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+17.1
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+4.9
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+17.1
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+28.6
1900 William McKinley (R) R+2.3
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+65.5