Salt Lake City · 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
81.7%
71,147 votes · D+63.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 69.2%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
74.3%
502,333 votes · R+49.5
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 72.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
577,316votes
36.8% of the vote · R+23.7
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 574,864 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
949,416votes
60.4% of the vote · R+23.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 929,411 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
+69.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.4 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +17.6 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+52.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.5 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +43.6 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.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Salt Lake City · 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, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama32Clinton7132,691 votes · 39 of 39 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Sanders38Clinton180,723 votes · 39 of 39 countiescaucus
Sanders24Biden11Bloomberg4223,953 votes · 39 of 39 countiescaucus + primary
○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+38.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+23.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 15 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
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2018 (partial)
11,946
374
9,110
2,343
119
2020 (partial)
13,760
564
10,652
2,401
143
2022 (partial)
13,650
508
10,940
2,049
153
2024 (partial)
14,721
531
11,928
2,086
176
2026 (partial)
1,861,586
258,376
974,226
519,632
109,352
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+3,385 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +126,284 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Salt Lake City in Salt Lake City: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,196
2012
+599
2013
+5,981
2014
−1,489
2015
+5,050
2016
+18,913
2017
+16,657
2018
+14,948
2019
+15,140
2021
+30,481
2022
+14,039
2023
+1,274
2024
+2,502
2025
+3,385
Salt Lake City's media market spans a heavily LDS Intermountain corridor where rapid population growth and an influx of out-of-state migrants have gradually compressed once-dominant Republican margins in key suburban counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.4 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 51.4 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.7 points.
A population of 3,574,682, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,309 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Idaho Falls-Pocatello (Jackson) and Boise.
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In 2024, Salt Lake City, Utah voted Republican by 23.7 points (R+23.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,570,838 votes cast, 577,316 went Democratic and 949,416 went Republican.
When did Salt Lake City, Utah last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Salt Lake City, Utah voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Salt Lake City, Utah?
Salt Lake City, Utah has a population of 3,574,682 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, Utah?
Median household income in Salt Lake City, Utah is $95,309 — above the national median of $80,734. The Utah state median is $95,166.
What is the political history of Salt Lake City, Utah?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
