United States presidential election in Utah, 2016 (New Johannson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 8, 2016. All contemporary fifty states and the District of Columbia took part, and Utah voters selected eight electors to the Electoral College, who subsequently cast their ballots for President and Vice President.

Utah voted solidly for incumbent Republican President Edward H. Johannson of Minnesota, over his Democratic opponent, Governor John C. Dickenson of Georgia. Johannson ran with Vice President Neel Kashkari of California, while Dickenson's running mate was Attorney General Chris Koster of Missouri.

The Johannson-Kashkari ticket won Utah by a margin of 11.86 percent, and swept all twenty-eight counties in the state, making Utah one of thirty states throughout the country where Johannson won every county. Johannson received over sixty percent of the vote in eleven counties and even broke seventy percent in three.

Nevertheless, owing to the traditionally Democratic leanings of Utah's Mormon population and the social conservatism which was embodied for many by the Dickenson candidacy, the state weighed in as 10.44% more Democratic than the national average.