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The 2024 United States presidential election in Utah took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Utah voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Utah has six electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
Incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden initially ran for reelection to a second term, but dropped out of the race prior to the Democratic National Convention. Former President Donald Trump ran for reelection to a second non-consecutive term after losing to Biden in 2020. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gathered the required signatures to qualify for the ballot in early-January but would later withdraw.
A Mountain West state, Utah has not been won by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1964 landslide and is a strongly red state, a trait vastly owed to the state's conservative Mormon base. As expected, Donald Trump won the state handily—though with only a 1.1% Republican swing, Utah proved to have one of the smallest rightward shifts in the nation. Trump became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Grand County since William McKinley in 1900.