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Utah · county

Salt Lake County

FIPS 49035county:49035Proxy

Also indexed as: Salt Lake

A permanent, source-linked view of the county's 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential history, turnout, election-administration context, and non-conclusive review signals.

Presidential results

2016–2024 county history

3 of 3 years available
YearDemocraticRepublicanOtherTotalWinner / marginConfidenceSource
2016175,863Hillary Clinton · 41.50%138,043Donald Trump · 32.58%109,837423,743Democratic +37,820 (8.93%)ProxyHistorical county presidential baseline rows
2020289,906Joe Biden · 53.57%230,174Donald Trump · 42.53%21,095541,175Democratic +59,732 (11.04%)ProxyHistorical county presidential baseline rows
2024273,658Kamala Harris · 53.70%221,555Donald Trump · 43.47%14,424509,637Democratic +52,103 (10.22%)DerivedOfficial presidential county results

“Other” includes all other loaded presidential candidates and write-ins. Margin is the absolute gap between the Democratic and Republican vote buckets, divided by all loaded presidential votes.

Participation

2024 turnout context

Exact
Ballots cast
521,789
Registered voters
614,757
Reported/calculated rate
84.88%
Reporting grain
county

Utah county standardized canvass G24 active voters; total ballots counted is the county canvass total, not presidential contest votes.

Official county turnout and active-voter denominator rows

Administration context

Vote methods

No county-tagged vote-method rows are available.

Administration context

Voting equipment

1 source-linked row

Equipment metadata is jurisdiction context only. It is not a vote or turnout row, does not prove or disprove an advisory signal, and does not guarantee every precinct or ballot mode used one identical setup.

VendorSystemType / usePaper recordTabulationConfidenceSource
DominionJurisdiction does not use BMDsDRE · county_contextvvpatDREProxySource

Review context

Advisory indicators

1 matched indicator

These calculated indicators are prompts for checking source data, reporting grain, denominators, and local context. They are not evidence or findings of fraud, misconduct, or an incorrect election outcome.

county down ballot distribution · severity 4.45

County comparison outlier

County comparison crossed threshold: DEM 13.41%, REP 1.27%, DEM z=2.20, REP z=-1.36.

Calculation detail

This county-level President-versus-comparison-contest difference is large in absolute terms or relative to the statewide county distribution. It is an advisory county review screen, not precinct-level evidence or proof of tampering.

Traceability

Sources and provenance

4 referenced sources
Canonical geography

Salt Lake County · county:49035

Geometry registry artifact: ut-counties.geojson

Historical county presidential baseline rows

Historical county presidential baseline rows

Wikipedia county presidential tables with Utah election-result source footnotes

Secondary normalized historical baseline used for context only. Individual rows carry the per-year page URL; replace with official Utah historical Excel/PDF normalization when feasible.Open source
Official presidential county results

Official presidential county results

Utah Lieutenant Governor Elections Office

County President rows are normalized from the official electionresults.utah.gov ballot-item detail API and cross-checked against the certified statewide canvass PDF. Other includes all non-Trump/non-Harris candidate and qualified write-in rows exposed by the official API.Open source
Official county turnout and active-voter denominator rows

Official county turnout and active-voter denominator rows

Utah Lieutenant Governor Elections Office

Rows use total ballots counted and active voters from Utah county standardized canvass statistics. Total ballots counted is election-level turnout, not presidential contest votes.Open source
equipment_context

Verified Voting Verifier UT 2024 equipment context

Verified Voting

Verified Voting Verifier data is jurisdiction-level election-administration context. Most rows are counties, but some states report state-level rows and some county rows can summarize mixed tabulation, accessible-device, absentee, poll-book, or other configurations. Treat it as source-linked context, not proof every precinct in a county used one identical setup, and not a turnout or vote-result source.Open source