- Lead
- 180
- Total
- 14,270
- vs nation
- D+0.2
Utah 26th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 466
- Total
- 16,034
- vs nation
- R+1.5
- Lead
- 664
- Total
- 11,889
- vs nation
- D+3.5
- Lead
- 2,462
- Total
- 10,385
- vs nation
- R+27.6
- Lead
- 389
- Total
- 9,862
- vs nation
- R+11.2
- Lead
- 2,510
- Total
- 9,783
- vs nation
- R+23.2
- Lead
- 2,022
- Total
- 8,390
- vs nation
- R+24.6
- Lead
- 555
- Total
- 7,703
- vs nation
- R+15.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,1762024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,225 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $110,0002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 36.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81.1 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.6 in 1980MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 30, UT · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
Utah 26th 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
90.5%
488 votes · D+81.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 70.8%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
70.9%
5,103 votes · R+43.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 67.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,873votes
49.1% of the vote · D+2.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 6,763 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
7,407votes
46.2% of the vote · D+2.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 6,943 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
+87.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+81.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +21.2 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+35.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.6 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +29.8 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 | D | 51.0%9,080 | 49.0%8,720 | 17,800 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of just R+1.3, this Salt Lake–area district swings well inside the statewide average, making it a consistent bellwether for suburban realignment in Utah's legislative map.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 45.6 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.3 points.
A population of 45,176, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $110,000 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 30 and State House District 27.
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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Utah 26th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/49026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.