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2004 United States presidential election in Utah

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Field	Value
election_name	2004 United States presidential election in Utah
country	Utah
flag_year	1922
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	2000 United States presidential election in Utah
previous_year	2000
next_election	2008 United States presidential election in Utah
next_year	2008
election_date	November 2, 2004
image_size	x200px
image1	George-W-Bush (cropped).jpeg
nominee1	George W. Bush
party1	Republican Party (United States)
home_state1	Texas
running_mate1	Dick Cheney
electoral_vote1	5
popular_vote1	663,742
percentage1	71.54%
image2	John F. Kerry (wide crop).jpg
nominee2	John Kerry
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
home_state2	Massachusetts
running_mate2	John Edwards
electoral_vote2	0
popular_vote2	241,199
percentage2	26.00%
map_image	{{Switcher
title	President
before_election	George W. Bush
before_party	Republican Party (United States)
after_election	George W. Bush
after_party	Republican Party (United States)
turnout	72.6% (of registered voters)
57.7% (of voting age population)

Main article: 2004 United States presidential election

| [[File:Utah Presidential Election Results 2004.svg|250px]] | County results | [[File:2004 United States presidential election in Utah by congressional district.svg|250px]] | Congressional district results Bush 57.7% (of voting age population) The 2004 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 2, 2004. It was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Utah was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by a 45.5% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all leading news organizations considered this a state Bush would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. It is a strongly Republican state and has supported the party's nominee in every presidential election since 1968. With 71.54 percent of the popular vote, Utah was Bush's strongest state in the 2004 election.

This was the first of five instances in which a presidential candidate gained over 70% of a state's vote after Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide. The others are Mitt Romney in Utah in 2012, Barack Obama in Hawaii in 2008 and 2012 and Donald Trump in Wyoming in 2024. Three of these involved a candidate with a close tie to the state: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, and Mitt Romney, as the first Mormon on a major-party presidential ticket, was popular in Mormon-majority Utah and would later represent the state in the United States Senate.

Primaries

2004 Utah Democratic presidential primary

Campaign

Predictions

There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.

Source	Ranking
D.C. Political Report
Cook Political Report
Research 2000
Zogby International
The Washington Post	Washington Post
Washington Dispatch
Washington Times
The New York Times
CNN
Newsweek
Associated Press
Rasmussen Reports

Polling

The final three polls averaged Bush with 67 percent to Kerry with 25 percent.

Fundraising

Bush raised $561,645. Kerry raised $262,031.

Advertising and visits

Neither campaign advertised or visited this state during the fall election.

Analysis

Republicans dominate Utah state politics because of the very high Mormon population that accounts for almost seventy percent of the residents throughout the state. Mormons have been known for having very conservative values. While every county voted for Bush, areas such as Summit County (ski resort), Moab (becoming an outpost for environmental activists), Carbon County (largely blue collar), Salt Lake City (urban area with some diversity) and San Juan County (economically distressed and mostly Native American) did give a somewhat greater proportion of their votes to Kerry. However, other areas were uniformly Republican in voting. Utah County's (home of Provo and Brigham Young University) Republican vote (86%) was by far the largest percentage of any county its size in America.

Results

2004 United States presidential election in Utah	Party	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Republican	George W. Bush (incumbent)	663,742	71.54%	5
Democratic	John Kerry	241,199	26.00%	0
Unaffiliated	Ralph Nader	11,305	1.22%	0
Constitution Party	Michael Peroutka	6,841	0.74%	0
Libertarian Party	Michael Badnarik	3,375	0.36%	0
Personal Choice Party	Charles Jay	946	0.10%	0
Socialist Workers Party	Roger Calero	393	0.04%	0
Green Party	David Cobb	39	0.00%	0
Write Ins	4	0.00%	0
Totals	927,844	100.00%	5
Voter turnout (Voting age population)	57.7%

Results by county

County	George W. Bush
Republican	John Kerry
Democratic	Ralph Nader
Unaffiliated	Michael Peroutka
Constitution	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Totals	663,742	71.54%	241,199	26.00%	11,305	1.22%	6,841	0.74%	4,757	0.51%	422,543	45.54%	927,844
	Beaver		2,023		79.52%		493		19.38%		12		0.47%		9		0.35%		7		0.28%		1,530		60.14%		2,544
	Box Elder		15,751		85.75%		2,244		12.22%		145		0.79%		144		0.78%		84		0.46%		13,507		73.53%		18,368
	Cache		32,486		81.76%		6,375		16.05%		413		1.04%		274		0.69%		183		0.46%		26,111		65.71%		39,731
	Carbon		4,950		58.18%		3,415		40.14%		83		0.98%		22		0.26%		38		0.45%		1,535		18.04%		8,508
	Daggett		380		76.15%		108		21.64%		6		1.20%		3		0.60%		2		0.20%		272		54.51%		499
	Davis		86,187		78.88%		20,893		19.12%		1,055		0.97%		695		0.64%		438		0.41%		65,294		59.76%		109,268
	Duchesne		4,742		85.35%		738		13.28%		27		0.49%		32		0.58%		17		0.31%		4,004		72.07%		5,556
	Emery		3,781		80.83%		831		17.76%		23		0.49%		29		0.62%		14		0.30%		2,950		63.07%		4,678
	Garfield		1,848		85.48%		264		12.21%		22		1.02%		16		0.74%		12		0.56%		1,584		73.27%		2,162
	Grand		2,130		51.14%		1,858		44.61%		118		2.83%		20		0.48%		39		0.94%		272		6.53%		4,165
	Iron		12,815		82.97%		2,267		14.68%		111		0.72%		169		1.09%		84		0.54%		10,548		68.29%		15,446
	Juab		2,681		78.46%		605		17.71%		20		0.59%		98		2.87%		13		0.38%		2,076		60.75%		3,417
	Kane		2,414		79.12%		576		18.88%		25		0.82%		19		0.62%		17		0.55%		1,838		60.24%		3,051
	Millard		4,084		83.74%		626		12.84%		28		0.57%		118		2.42%		21		0.43%		3,458		70.90%		4,877
	Morgan		3,301		85.94%		472		12.29%		25		0.65%		24		0.62%		19		0.49%		2,829		73.65%		3,841
	Piute		646		83.57%		123		15.91%		3		0.39%		1		0.13%		0		0.00%		523		67.66%		773
	Rich		922		88.91%		109		10.51%		5		0.48%		1		0.10%		0		0.00%		813		78.40%		1,037
	Salt Lake		215,728		59.57%		135,949		37.54%		6,025		1.66%		2,199		0.61%		2,237		0.62%		79,779		22.03%		362,138
	San Juan		2,971		60.02%		1,906		38.51%		30		0.61%		24		0.48%		19		0.38%		1,065		21.51%		4,950
	Sanpete		7,004		82.33%		1,189		13.98%		58		0.68%		217		2.55%		39		0.46%		5,815		68.35%		8,507
	Sevier		6,597		86.34%		920		12.04%		37		0.48%		60		0.79%		27		0.35%		5,677		74.30%		7,641
	Summit		7,936		51.83%		6,977		45.57%		265		1.73%		36		0.24%		98		0.64%		959		6.26%		15,312
	Tooele		12,181		73.10%		4,130		24.78%		150		0.90%		111		0.67%		92		0.55%		8,051		48.32%		16,664
	Uintah		8,518		85.55%		1,266		12.71%		42		0.42%		99		0.99%		32		0.32%		7,252		72.84%		9,957
	Utah		128,269		85.99%		17,357		11.64%		1,289		0.86%		1,621		1.09%		637		0.43%		110,912		74.35%		149,173
	Wasatch		5,503		73.26%		1,854		24.68%		60		0.80%		65		0.87%		30		0.40%		3,649		48.58%		7,512
	Washington		35,633		80.95%		7,513		17.07%		301		0.68%		362		0.82%		209		0.47%		28,120		63.88%		44,018
	Wayne		1,062		78.09%		279		20.51%		10		0.74%		5		0.37%		4		0.29%		783		57.58%		1,360
	Weber		51,199		70.43%		19,862		27.32%		917		1.26%		368		0.51%		345		0.47%		31,337		43.11%		72,691

Results by congressional district

Bush won all three congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.

District	Bush	Representative
73%	25%	Rob Bishop
66%	31%	Jim Matheson
77%	20%	Chris Cannon

Electors

Main article: List of 2004 United States presidential electors

Technically the voters of Utah cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Utah is allocated five electors because it has three congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of five electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins a plurality of votes in the state is awarded all five electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 5 were pledged to Bush/Cheney:

Olene S. Walker
Gayle McKeachnie
Lewis K. Billings
Joseph A. Cannon
Scott F. Simpson

References

"2004 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
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"Election 2004 Polls - Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".
"George W Bush - $374,659,453 raised, '04 election cycle, Republican Party, President".
"John F Kerry - $345,826,176 raised, '04 election cycle, Democrat Party, President".
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"2004 General Election Canvass".
(2005). "Federal Elections 2004". Federal Election Commission.

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