- Lead
- 8,799
- Total
- 57,835
- vs nation
- R+13.7
Utah 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,780
- Total
- 56,855
- vs nation
- R+23.4
- Lead
- 3,193
- Total
- 38,607
- vs nation
- R+19.6
- Lead
- 18,344
- Total
- 35,694
- vs nation
- R+55.2
- Lead
- 11,260
- Total
- 31,756
- vs nation
- R+42.7
- Lead
- 17,989
- Total
- 33,794
- vs nation
- R+50.8
- Lead
- 14,382
- Total
- 29,193
- vs nation
- R+49.8
- Lead
- 8,678
- Total
- 25,476
- vs nation
- R+42.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+15.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 114,4152024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,355 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 34.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $131,9382024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.6 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+66.7 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 7, UT · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
Utah 17th 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
74.3%
957 votes · D+48.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 54.6%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
82.6%
21,519 votes · R+66.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 80.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
23,466votes
40.6% of the vote · R+15.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 21,849 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
32,629votes
57.4% of the vote · R+19.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 32,265 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
+54.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+48.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · −12.4 pts
Republican
Gerald Ford1976
+55.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+53.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +55.2 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%22,997 | 49.0%22,084 | 45,081 |
Utah 17th State Senate District sits in the Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.6 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 66.7 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.2 points.
A population of 114,415, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $131,938 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 7 and State Senate District 18.
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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