2012 United States presidential election in Utah

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| [[File:Utah Presidential Election Results 2012.svg|250px]] | County results | [[File:UT-12-pres-districts.svg|250px]] | Congressional district results Romney The 2012 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Utah voters chose six electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan.

Prior to the election, all leading news organizations making election predictions considered this a state Romney would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. Alongside neighboring Wyoming & Idaho, Utah has voted for the Republican ticket in each presidential election starting in 1968 and all but one starting 1952. Utah is the only state to have a majority Mormon population, benefiting Romney, the first Mormon to head a major party presidential ticket. Romney won in a landslide, carrying 72.55% of the vote to Obama's 24.67%, a margin of 47.88% or 488,787 votes, the best raw vote margin in the state's history to date. He won every county in the state by margins of over 15%, except for Grand and Summit County, home to the cities of Moab and Park City, respectively. Romney flipped these counties along with Salt Lake County, where the state's largest city, Salt Lake City, is located.

With a 47.88% margin, Utah would prove to be Romney's strongest state in the election, and it would also be Romney's largest outperformance of John McCain in 2008, winning the state by almost 20 points more. Romney was elected as a United States senator from Utah six years later in 2018, having moved there in 2014. Romney's vote share in Utah was also the highest of any presidential nominee in any state since Ronald Reagan's in Utah in 1984, and it remains so as of 2024.

As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the most recent time any presidential candidate has received more than 60% of the vote in Utah, as well as the last time any presidential candidate has carried every county. It is also the most recent election in which Salt Lake and Summit Counties have voted for the Republican presidential nominee. 2012 is also the most recent time that Utah has been the most Republican state in a presidential election.

General election

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Huffington Post		November 6, 2012
CNN		November 6, 2012
New York Times		November 6, 2012
Washington Post		November 6, 2012
RealClearPolitics		November 6, 2012
Sabato's Crystal Ball		November 5, 2012
FiveThirtyEight		November 6, 2012

Candidate ballot access

• Willard Mitt Romney / Paul Davis Ryan, Republican
• Barack Hussein Obama / Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., Democratic
• Ross Carl "Rocky" Anderson / Luis Javier Rodriguez, Justice
• Gary Earl Johnson / James Polin Gray, Libertarian
• Jill Ellen Stein / Cheri Lynn Honkala, Green
• Virgil Hamlin Goode, Jr. / James N. Clymer, Constitution
• Gloria Estela La Riva / Filberto Ramirez Jr., Socialism and Liberation (as stand-ins for Peta Lindsay and Yari Osorio, who may not appear on the Utah ballot due to their Constitutional ineligibility to be president and vice president) Write-in access:
• Andre Nigel Barnett / Ken Cross, Reform

Results

2012 United States presidential election in Utah	Party	Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
**Republican**	**Mitt Romney**	**Paul Ryan**	**740,600**	**72.55%**	**6**
Democratic	Barack Obama (incumbent)	Joe Biden (incumbent)	251,813	24.67%	0
Libertarian	Gary Johnson	Jim Gray	12,572	1.23%	0
Justice	Rocky Anderson	Luis J. Rodriguez	5,335	0.52%	0
Green	Jill Stein	Cheri Honkala	3,817	0.37%	0
Constitution	Virgil Goode	Jim Clymer	2,871	0.28%	0
Socialism and Liberation	Gloria La Riva	Filberto Ramirez Jr.	393	0.04%	0
Others	Others	3,460	0.34%	0
**Totals**	**1,020,861**	**100.00%**	**6**

By county

County	Mitt Romney
Republican	Barack Obama
Democratic	Gary Johnson
Libertarian	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Totals	740,600	72.55%	251,813	24.67%	12,572	1.23%	15,876	1.55%	488,787	47.88%	1,020,861
	Beaver		2,174		84.92%		346		13.52%		17		0.66%		23		0.90%		1,828		71.40%		2,560
	Box Elder		17,101		88.11%		1,984		10.22%		150		0.77%		173		0.89%		15,117		77.89%		19,408
	Cache		35,039		82.85%		6,244		14.76%		543		1.28%		467		1.10%		28,795		68.09%		42,293
	Carbon		5,090		67.27%		2,275		30.06%		88		1.16%		114		1.51%		2,815		37.21%		7,567
	Daggett		406		78.08%		94		18.08%		16		3.08%		4		0.77%		312		60.00%		520
	Davis		96,861		80.00%		21,889		18.08%		1,217		1.01%		1,102		0.91%		74,972		61.92%		121,069
	Duchesne		5,698		89.32%		581		9.11%		41		0.64%		59		0.92%		5,117		80.21%		6,379
	Emery		3,777		84.90%		569		12.79%		48		1.08%		55		1.23%		3,208		72.11%		4,449
	Garfield		1,832		83.96%		308		14.12%		17		0.78%		25		1.15%		1,524		69.84%		2,182
	Grand		1,996		50.53%		1,727		43.72%		71		1.80%		156		3.95%		269		6.81%		3,950
	Iron		14,200		84.47%		2,148		12.78%		202		1.20%		261		1.55%		12,052		71.69%		16,811
	Juab		3,448		85.99%		451		11.25%		27		0.67%		84		2.09%		2,997		74.74%		4,010
	Kane		2,522		74.81%		744		22.07%		47		1.39%		58		1.72%		1,778		52.74%		3,371
	Millard		4,478		88.59%		431		8.53%		43		0.85%		103		2.04%		4,047		80.06%		5,055
	Morgan		4,114		89.49%		403		8.77%		36		0.78%		44		0.95%		3,711		80.72%		4,597
	Piute		697		89.13%		74		9.46%		5		0.64%		6		0.77%		623		79.67%		782
	Rich		915		90.15%		83		8.18%		6		0.59%		11		1.09%		832		81.97%		1,015
	Salt Lake		223,811		58.26%		146,147		38.04%		5,521		1.44%		8,695		2.26%		77,664		20.22%		384,174
	San Juan		3,074		57.92%		2,139		40.31%		42		0.79%		52		0.98%		935		17.61%		5,307
	Sanpete		8,406		88.05%		980		10.27%		69		0.72%		92		0.96%		7,426		77.78%		9,547
	Sevier		7,207		89.32%		738		9.15%		56		0.69%		68		0.84%		6,469		80.17%		8,069
	Summit		8,884		50.49%		8,072		45.87%		301		1.71%		340		1.93%		812		4.62%		17,597
	Tooele		14,268		73.77%		4,524		23.39%		232		1.20%		318		1.64%		9,744		50.38%		19,342
	Uintah		10,421		89.75%		997		8.59%		71		0.61%		122		1.05%		9,424		81.16%		11,611
	Utah		156,950		88.32%		17,281		9.72%		2,120		1.19%		1,362		0.77%		139,669		78.60%		177,713
	Wasatch		7,220		74.90%		2,191		22.73%		90		0.93%		139		1.45%		5,029		52.17%		9,640
	Washington		44,698		82.43%		8,337		15.37%		541		1.00%		650		1.19%		36,361		67.06%		54,226
	Wayne		1,089		82.06%		215		16.20%		6		0.45%		17		1.28%		874		65.86%		1,327
	Weber		54,224		71.08%		19,841		26.01%		949		1.24%		1,276		1.68%		34,383		45.07%		76,290

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;Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Grand (largest city: Moab)
• Salt Lake (largest city: Salt Lake City)
• Summit (largest city: Park City)

By congressional district

Mitt Romney won all four congressional districts, including one that elected a Democrat.

District	Romney	Obama	Representative
**77%**	20%		Rob Bishop
**68%**	29%		Chris Stewart
**78%**	19%		Jason Chaffetz
**67%**	30%		Jim Matheson