- Lead
- 7,833
- Total
- 51,378
- vs nation
- R+13.8
Utah 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,213
- Total
- 51,096
- vs nation
- R+18.6
- Lead
- 5,188
- Total
- 40,046
- vs nation
- R+15.0
- Lead
- 12,966
- Total
- 34,793
- vs nation
- R+41.1
- Lead
- 6,350
- Total
- 33,697
- vs nation
- R+26.1
- Lead
- 11,659
- Total
- 32,355
- vs nation
- R+33.6
- Lead
- 7,493
- Total
- 27,602
- vs nation
- R+27.7
- Lead
- 1,802
- Total
- 24,245
- vs nation
- R+16.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+15.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 112,9712024 5-year
- Population density
- 87 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,299 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,4732024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+71.4 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+43.7 in 1980MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 5, UT · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Utah 3rd State Senate 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
85.7%
3,781 votes · D+71.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 75.2%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
69.7%
17,218 votes · R+40.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · 68.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
20,886votes
40.9% of the vote · R+14.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 20,550 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
28,383votes
55.2% of the vote · R+15.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 28,099 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
+77.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+71.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +26.1 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+41.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+37.3 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · +33.9 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 | 35.9%16,755 | 64.1%29,972 | 46,727 |
Utah 3rd State Senate District sits in the Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 71.4 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 43.7 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.2 points.
A population of 112,971, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,473 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 5 and State Senate District 16.
The state-senate 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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