[1] Since its admission to the Union in January 1896, it has participated in 32 United States presidential elections.

In the 1896 presidential election, first presidential election in which the state participated, Utah was won in a landslide by Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who received almost 83 percent of the state's vote.

[3] In the 1912 election, Utah was one of only two states won by incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft.

[3][5] In the 1992 presidential election, Utah was one of only two states in which independent Ross Perot finished second, placing ahead of Democrat Bill Clinton.

[7][8][9] As of 2020[update], the Republican Party has won Utah in 17 of the last 18 presidential elections.