Political party strength in Utah
Encyclopedia
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

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  • Governor
  • Secretary of State/Lieutenant Governor
    Lieutenant Governor of Utah
    The Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Utah was created in 1975. There have only been seven Lieutenant Governors in Utah's history. Prior to the creation of the Lieutenant Governor's office, the succession to the Governorship of Utah was held by the Utah Secretary of State...

  • Attorney General
  • State Treasurer
  • State Auditor


The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
  • State Senate
    Utah State Senate
    The Utah State Senate is the upper house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The Senate is composed of 29 elected members representing an equal number of constituent senatorial districts. Each senatorial district is composed of approximately 91,000 people...

  • State House of Representatives
    Utah House of Representatives
    The Utah House of Representatives is the lower house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The House is composed of 75 representatives elected from single member constituent districts. Each district contains an average population of 35,000 people...

  • State delegation to the U.S. Senate
  • State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives


For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

The parties are as follows: (D), (P), and (R).
Year|Executive offices|State Legislature|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from Utah
Since Utah became a U.S. state in 1896, it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years. Before the Seventeenth Amendment took effect in 1913, senators were elected by the Utah State...

|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

GovernorSec. of State|Attorney General|State Treasurer|State Auditor|State Senate|State House
Utah House of Representatives
The Utah House of Representatives is the lower house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The House is composed of 75 representatives elected from single member constituent districts. Each district contains an average population of 35,000 people...

|U.S. Senator (Class I)|U.S. Senator (Class III)|U.S. House
Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of Utah
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Utah was created in 1975. There have only been seven Lieutenant Governors in Utah's history. Prior to the creation of the Lieutenant Governor's office, the succession to the Governorship of Utah was held by the Utah Secretary of State...

1896 Heber Manning Wells
Heber Manning Wells
Heber Manning Wells was an American politician and the first Governor of the State of Utah. Utah gained statehood January 4, 1896; Wells served as governor from January 6, 1896 until January 2, 1905.-Biography:...

 (R)
11R, 7D 31R, 14D
1897 17D, 1P 39D, 3R, 3P
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905 John Christopher Cutler
John Christopher Cutler
John Christopher Cutler was an American politician and the second Governor of Utah. He served as governor from 1905 to 1909. He was a Republican.-Biography:...

 (R)
1906
1907
1908
1909 William Spry
William Spry
William Spry was an American politician and the third Governor of Utah.Spry was born at Windsor, Berkshire, England. He emigrated to Utah Territory with his parents at the age of eleven....

 (R)
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917 Simon Bamberger
Simon Bamberger
Simon Bamberger was the fourth Governor of Utah after it achieved statehood from territorial status in 1896. Bamberger bears the distinction of being the first non-Mormon, the first Democrat, and the first and to date only Jew to be elected Governor of the State of Utah...

 (D)
1918
1919
1920
1921 Charles R. Mabey
Charles R. Mabey
Charles Rendell Mabey was an American politician and the fifth Governor of Utah. He served as governor from 1921 to 1925. He was a Republican.Mabey was born in Bountiful, Utah...

 (R)
1922
1923
1924
1925 George H. Dern (D)
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933 Henry H. Blood
Henry H. Blood
Henry Hooper Blood was a prominent businessman and the seventh Governor of the state of Utah.-Biography:Henry was born to William Hooper Blood, a farmer and city councilman, and Jane Wilkie Hooper. He went to local schools and attended Brigham Young Academy at Provo City, Utah, which later turned...

 (D)
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941 Herbert B. Maw
Herbert B. Maw
Herbert Brown Maw was an American politician and the eighth Governor of Utah. He served as governor from 1941 to 1949. He was a Democrat.He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-Early life:...

 (D)
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949 J. Bracken Lee
J. Bracken Lee
Joseph Bracken Lee was a political figure in the state of Utah, United States. A Republican, he served two terms as the ninth Governor of Utah , six two-year terms as mayor of Price, Utah , and three terms as the 27th mayor of Salt Lake City ., Lee is the most recent Governor of Utah who was not a...

 (R)
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957 George Dewey Clyde
George Dewey Clyde
George Dewey Clyde was an American politician and the tenth Governor of Utah, serving two terms from 1957 till 1965 as a Republican....

 (R)
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963 13R, 12D 33R, 31D
1964
1965 Calvin L. Rampton
Calvin L. Rampton
Calvin Lewellyn Rampton was the 11th Governor of the state of Utah from 1965 to 1977.Following his graduation from Davis High School in 1931, he took over his family's automobile business, due to his father's death that same year. He sold the business in 1933 and entered the University of Utah,...

 (D)
Clyde L. Miller
Clyde L. Miller
Clyde L. Miller was a Democratic politician who was the first Lieutenant Governor of Utah.Miller was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He began his involvement with politics at age 18, when he distributed materials in support of Democrat Al Smith's 1928 presidential...

 (D)
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977 Scott M. Matheson
Scott M. Matheson
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 (D)
David S. Monson (R) Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch is the senior United States Senator for Utah and is a member of the Republican Party. Hatch served as the chairman or ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1993 to 2005...

 (R)
1978
1979
1980
1981 Ed Alter (R)
1982
1983
1984
1985 Norman H. Bangerter
Norman H. Bangerter
Norman Howard Bangerter was the 13th Governor of Utah from 1985 to 1993. He was the first Republican elected to the position since 1965.- Biography :...

 (R)
W. Val Oveson
W. Val Oveson
Wilford Val Oveson is an American Republican Party politician in the state of Utah. Oveson has held several state offices in Utah, most notably the third Lieutenant Governor of Utah, and the federal office of National Taxpayer Advocate for the Internal Revenue Service...

 (R)
David L. Wilkinson (D) Tom L. Allen (R)
1986
1987
1988
1989 R. Paul Van Dam (D)
1990
1991
1992
1993 Mike Leavitt (R) Olene S. Walker
Olene S. Walker
Olene Smith Walker was Utah's 15th Governor. She was sworn into office on November 5, 2003, shortly before her 73rd birthday, as Utah's first, and, to date, only female governor. She is a member of the Republican Party....

 (R)
Jan Graham (D) Robert Foster Bennett
Robert Foster Bennett
Robert Foster "Bob" Bennett is a former United States Senator from Utah and a member of the Republican Party. In 2006, Bennett was tapped to serve on the Senate Republican Leadership Team as Counsel to the Minority Leader, United States Senator Mitch McConnell...

 (R)
1994
1995
Auston Johnson (R)
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001 Mark Shurtleff
Mark Shurtleff
Mark Shurtleff is the current attorney general of the state of Utah, United States, a position he has held since January 2001...

 (R)
25R, 11D 62R, 28D 2R, 1D
2002
2003 Olene S. Walker (R) Gayle McKeachnie
Gayle McKeachnie
Gayle F. McKeachnie is a Utah Republican politician and the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Utah.-Education:Gayle McKeachnie received his B.A. from the College of Southern Utah and his J.D. from the University of Utah. For a time, Lieutenant Governor McKeachnie was an adjunct professor at Brigham...

 (R)
22R, 7D 56R, 19D
2004
2005 Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr. is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah. He also served in the administrations of four United States presidents and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.Huntsman worked as a White House staff assistant for...

 (R)
Gary R. Herbert
Gary R. Herbert
Gary Richard Herbert is the 17th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Utah. Having served as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, he assumed the governorship on August 11, 2009, following the resignation of Jon Huntsman, who was appointed United States Ambassador to the...

 (R)
21R, 10D 56R, 21D
2006
2007 21R, 8D 55R, 20D
2008 John McCain
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....

 and Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...

 (R)
2009 Gary R. Herbert
Gary R. Herbert
Gary Richard Herbert is the 17th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Utah. Having served as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, he assumed the governorship on August 11, 2009, following the resignation of Jon Huntsman, who was appointed United States Ambassador to the...

 (R)
Greg Bell (R) Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis may refer to:*Richard Ellis , Caltech professor and former director of Palomar Observatory*Richard Ellis , American marine biologist, author, illustrator and biologist at American Museum of Natural History...

 (R)
53R, 22D
2010
2011 22R, 7D 58R, 17D Mike Lee (R)
Year|GovernorSec. of State|Attorney General|State Treasurer|State Auditor|State Senate|State House
Utah House of Representatives
The Utah House of Representatives is the lower house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The House is composed of 75 representatives elected from single member constituent districts. Each district contains an average population of 35,000 people...

|U.S. Senator (Class I)|U.S. Senator (Class III)|U.S. House|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of Utah
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Utah was created in 1975. There have only been seven Lieutenant Governors in Utah's history. Prior to the creation of the Lieutenant Governor's office, the succession to the Governorship of Utah was held by the Utah Secretary of State...

Executive offices|State Legislature|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from Utah
Since Utah became a U.S. state in 1896, it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years. Before the Seventeenth Amendment took effect in 1913, senators were elected by the Utah State...


See also

  • Politics in Utah
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