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Election 2012 Results

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2012 presidential election in Utah

Mitt Romney (Republican) beat Barack Obama (Democrat) in Utah in 2012, 72.8% to 24.7%, a margin of 48.0 points and 488,787 votes.

Utah voted 51.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.9.

The Republican hold continued from 2008, when John McCain won.

Republicans led in 29 of the 29 counties. The largest, Salt Lake, cast 381,799 votes and went to the Republican by 20.3 points. The closest was Grand, where 269 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
Mitt Romney won Republican 740,600 72.8%
Barack Obama Democratic 251,813 24.7%
All other candidates 25,027 2.5%
Total1,017,440

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Salt Lake 146,147 38.3% 223,811 58.6% 11,841 381,799 R+20.3
Utah 17,281 9.7% 156,950 88.3% 3,482 177,713 R+78.6
Davis 21,889 18.1% 96,861 80.0% 2,319 121,069 R+61.9
Weber 19,841 26.1% 54,224 71.4% 1,847 75,912 R+45.3
Washington 8,337 15.4% 44,698 82.8% 977 54,012 R+67.3
Cache 6,244 14.8% 35,039 82.8% 1,010 42,293 R+68.1
Box Elder 1,984 10.2% 17,101 88.1% 323 19,408 R+77.9
Tooele 4,524 23.5% 14,268 74.1% 469 19,261 R+50.6
Summit 8,072 46.2% 8,884 50.8% 532 17,488 R+4.6
Iron 2,148 12.9% 14,200 85.0% 353 16,701 R+72.2
Uintah 997 8.6% 10,421 90.0% 165 11,583 R+81.4
Wasatch 2,191 22.8% 7,220 75.3% 178 9,589 R+52.4
Sanpete 980 10.3% 8,406 88.0% 161 9,547 R+77.8
Sevier 738 9.1% 7,207 89.3% 124 8,069 R+80.2
Carbon 2,275 30.1% 5,090 67.3% 202 7,567 R+37.2
Duchesne 581 9.1% 5,698 89.3% 100 6,379 R+80.2
San Juan 2,139 40.3% 3,074 57.9% 94 5,307 R+17.6
Millard 431 8.6% 4,478 89.1% 117 5,026 R+80.5
Morgan 403 8.8% 4,114 89.5% 80 4,597 R+80.7
Emery 569 12.8% 3,777 84.9% 103 4,449 R+72.1
Juab 451 11.4% 3,448 86.8% 73 3,972 R+75.5
Grand 1,727 43.7% 1,996 50.5% 227 3,950 R+6.8
Kane 744 22.1% 2,522 74.8% 105 3,371 R+52.7
Beaver 346 13.5% 2,174 84.9% 40 2,560 R+71.4
Garfield 308 14.1% 1,832 84.0% 42 2,182 R+69.8
Wayne 215 16.2% 1,089 82.1% 23 1,327 R+65.9
Rich 83 8.2% 915 90.9% 9 1,007 R+82.6
Piute 74 9.5% 697 89.1% 11 782 R+79.7
Daggett 94 18.1% 406 78.1% 20 520 R+60.0

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