- Lead
- 4,980
- Total
- 44,582
- vs nation
- R+9.7
Utah 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,315
- Total
- 44,921
- vs nation
- R+16.3
- Lead
- 4,420
- Total
- 36,319
- vs nation
- R+14.3
- Lead
- 12,235
- Total
- 31,668
- vs nation
- R+42.5
- Lead
- 5,657
- Total
- 31,270
- vs nation
- R+25.4
- Lead
- 10,586
- Total
- 29,760
- vs nation
- R+33.1
- Lead
- 5,929
- Total
- 25,703
- vs nation
- R+23.6
- Lead
- 432
- Total
- 23,205
- vs nation
- R+10.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+11.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 112,7902024 5-year
- Population density
- 851 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 133 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,1262024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+38.6 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 3, UT · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Utah 5th 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
87.5%
2,884 votes · D+75.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 82.4%
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
68.0%
21,544 votes · R+38.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 66.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
18,750votes
41.7% of the vote · R+11.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 18,672 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
24,065votes
53.6% of the vote · R+11.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 23,652 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
+81.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+75.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +41.1 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+42.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +33.1 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 | 31.0%13,718 | 69.0%30,563 | 44,281 |
Utah 5th State Senate District sits in the Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.0 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 38.6 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.2 points.
A population of 112,790, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,126 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 3 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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