- Lead
- 7,569
- Total
- 20,939
- vs nation
- R+34.7
Utah 2nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,887
- Total
- 19,461
- vs nation
- R+45.0
- Lead
- 1,402
- Total
- 15,339
- vs nation
- R+33.8
- Lead
- 10,235
- Total
- 13,987
- vs nation
- R+77.0
- Lead
- 7,119
- Total
- 13,640
- vs nation
- R+59.5
- Lead
- 9,294
- Total
- 13,182
- vs nation
- R+68.0
- Lead
- 7,391
- Total
- 10,979
- vs nation
- R+67.8
- Lead
- 3,898
- Total
- 8,612
- vs nation
- R+53.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+36.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 43,8922024 5-year
- Population density
- 280 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 157 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $86,1462024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+58.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+73.2 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 5, UT · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Utah 2nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1896–2024 · 33 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
William J. Bryan1896
79.4%
1,208 votes · D+58.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 68.1%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
86.0%
7,561 votes · R+72.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 85.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
6,058votes
28.9% of the vote · R+36.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 5,291 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,627votes
65.1% of the vote · R+36.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,178 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
+64.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+58.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +11.9 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+77.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+73.2 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +68.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 25.4%4,484 | 74.6%13,173 | 17,657 |
| 2020 | R | 29.6%5,024 | 70.4%11,956 | 16,980 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+37, this northern Utah district ranks among the state's most one-sided constituencies, where Republican candidates routinely face only nominal general-election competition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 58.8 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 73.2 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.4 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.1 points.
A population of 43,892, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $86,146 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 5 and State House District 55.
The state-house districts 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.
District research tools
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