- Lead
- 2,911
- Total
- 46,854
- vs nation
- R+4.7
Utah 16th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,728
- Total
- 51,030
- vs nation
- R+11.8
- Lead
- 2,044
- Total
- 40,671
- vs nation
- R+7.1
- Lead
- 13,595
- Total
- 36,755
- vs nation
- R+40.8
- Lead
- 6,181
- Total
- 33,871
- vs nation
- R+25.5
- Lead
- 13,452
- Total
- 34,686
- vs nation
- R+36.3
- Lead
- 10,739
- Total
- 29,818
- vs nation
- R+36.5
- Lead
- 5,191
- Total
- 26,635
- vs nation
- R+28.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 113,4482024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,869 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 23.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $102,9452024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 22.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+63.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.2 in 1980MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, UT · twin score 97.2
presidential history
Party record book
Utah 16th 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
81.9%
1,399 votes · D+63.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 63.9%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
76.4%
19,990 votes · R+54.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 72.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
22,549votes
44.2% of the vote · R+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 21,035 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
26,277votes
51.5% of the vote · R+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 24,369 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
+69.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +5.1 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+45.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.2 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +42.7 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%22,803 | 49.0%21,898 | 44,701 |
Utah 16th State Senate District sits in the Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.8 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 55.2 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.2 points.
A population of 113,448, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $102,945 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 5.
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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