Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
William J. Bryan1896
84.3%
46,420 votes · D+68.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 71.2%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
73.5%
382,240 votes · R+47.9
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · 72.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
500,872votes
40.4% of the vote · R+13.6
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 497,870 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
675,559votes
55.9% of the vote · R+14.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 669,095 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
William J. Bryan1896
+74.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.6 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +19.3 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+65.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+63.9 · U.S. D+1.7
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +47.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID · 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-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama10Clinton1113,824 votes · 11 of 11 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Sanders1170,188 votes · 11 of 11 countiescaucus
Sanders8Bloomberg2Biden1197,053 votes · 11 of 11 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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+33.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+14.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 19 points more Democratic than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2018 (partial)
2,465
94
1,883
465
23
2020 (partial)
2,905
136
2,225
512
32
2022 (partial)
2,755
122
2,184
410
39
2024 (partial)
2,980
120
2,409
407
44
2026 (partial)
1,447,053
222,676
710,713
427,126
86,538
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−1,782 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +63,356 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID in Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−123
2012
−204
2013
+5,255
2014
−1,666
2015
+4,940
2016
+17,035
2017
+14,231
2018
+8,982
2019
+8,438
2021
+13,709
2022
+2,803
2023
−6,143
2024
−2,119
2025
−1,782
Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID sits in the Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 68.6 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 63.9 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.7 points.
A population of 2,792,856, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $100,349 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Idaho Falls-Rexburg-Blackfoot, ID and Boise City-Mountain Home-Ontario, ID-OR.
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Political twins — combined metros
The combined metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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How did Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah vote in 2024?
In 2024, Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah voted Republican by 14.7 points (R+14.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,209,270 votes cast, 497,870 went Democratic and 675,559 went Republican.
When did Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah?
Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah has a population of 2,792,856 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-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah?
Median household income in Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah is $100,349 — above the national median of $80,734. The Utah state median is $77,800.
What is the political history of Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT-ID, Utah from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
