Salt Lake City-Murray, UT · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+18.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+7.0
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 26-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
Domestic migration in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+530
2012
+1,737
2013
+1,475
2014
−4,052
2015
−511
2016
+3,698
2017
+2,534
2018
+106
2019
−81
2021
−6,278
2022
−6,661
2023
−13,016
2024
−8,544
2025
−6,099
Salt Lake City and its Murray corridor have shifted measurably toward competitive margins over the past decade as the metro's educated, younger workforce has grown — making it an outlier within Utah's otherwise reliably Republican statewide map.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.3 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 43.4 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.0 points.
A population of 1,275,870, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,059 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Heber, UT and Ogden, UT.
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How did Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah vote in 2024?
In 2024, Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah voted Democratic by 7.0 points (D+7.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 543,643 votes cast, 283,218 went Democratic and 245,039 went Republican.
When did Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah voted Republican was 2012.
How many people live in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah?
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah has a population of 1,275,870 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah?
Median household income in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah is $98,059 — above the national median of $80,734. The Utah state median is $95,166.
What is the political history of Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, Utah from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
