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2020 presidential election in Utah

Donald Trump (Republican) beat Joe Biden (Democrat) in Utah in 2020, 58.1% to 37.6%, a margin of 20.5 points and 304,858 votes.

Utah voted 24.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Republican hold continued from 2016, when Donald Trump also won.

Republicans led in 26 of the 29 counties and Democrats in 3. The largest, Salt Lake, cast 540,952 votes and went to the Democrat by 11.0 points. The closest was Daggett, where 385 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
Donald Trump won Republican 865,140 58.1%
Joe Biden Democratic 560,282 37.6%
All other candidates 62,867 4.2%
Total1,488,289

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Salt Lake 289,906 53.6% 230,160 42.5% 20,886 540,952 D+11.0
Utah 76,044 26.7% 192,839 67.8% 15,442 284,325 R+41.1
Davis 57,410 33.8% 104,138 61.3% 8,267 169,815 R+27.5
Weber 40,691 36.5% 65,941 59.2% 4,759 111,391 R+22.7
Washington 20,530 22.7% 67,294 74.4% 2,633 90,457 R+51.7
Cache 16,650 28.9% 38,030 66.1% 2,852 57,532 R+37.2
Tooele 8,943 28.4% 21,014 66.7% 1,548 31,505 R+38.3
Box Elder 4,474 16.6% 21,550 79.7% 1,002 27,026 R+63.2
Summit 15,235 58.4% 10,248 39.3% 590 26,073 D+19.1
Iron 4,892 19.7% 18,991 76.3% 1,010 24,893 R+56.6
Wasatch 6,189 35.2% 10,791 61.4% 596 17,576 R+26.2
Uintah 1,663 10.9% 13,262 86.7% 380 15,305 R+75.8
Sanpete 1,794 14.2% 10,459 82.8% 372 12,625 R+68.6
Sevier 1,084 10.5% 9,052 87.4% 226 10,362 R+76.9
Carbon 2,392 25.5% 6,693 71.4% 284 9,369 R+45.9
Duchesne 843 9.9% 7,510 88.1% 168 8,521 R+78.2
San Juan 3,113 45.3% 3,535 51.4% 230 6,878 R+6.1
Morgan 1,088 16.7% 5,181 79.5% 245 6,514 R+62.8
Millard 624 10.1% 5,404 87.7% 132 6,160 R+77.6
Juab 645 11.0% 5,087 86.7% 133 5,865 R+75.7
Grand 2,806 54.1% 2,248 43.4% 130 5,184 D+10.8
Emery 572 11.8% 4,207 86.5% 86 4,865 R+74.7
Kane 1,083 25.9% 2,997 71.7% 99 4,179 R+45.8
Beaver 357 11.5% 2,695 86.9% 48 3,100 R+75.4
Garfield 514 18.8% 2,158 79.0% 60 2,732 R+60.2
Wayne 365 22.5% 1,229 75.8% 27 1,621 R+53.3
Rich 180 13.2% 1,157 84.9% 26 1,363 R+71.7
Piute 86 9.9% 772 88.7% 12 870 R+78.9
Daggett 111 17.9% 496 80.1% 12 619 R+62.2

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