2024 United States presidential election in Utah

The 2024 United States presidential election in Utah is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Utah voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Utah has six electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.

A Mountain West state, owing largely to its conservative Mormon majority, Utah has not been won by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon B Johnson's 1964 landslide — granted that the GOP margin of victory has been lower than usual in the past two elections due to a considerable share of third-party votes statewide and growing Democratic trends in Salt Lake and Summit Counties — and is expected to be won comfortably by Republican nominee Donald Trump. Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Democratic Joe Biden are expected to fiercely compete for second place.

Incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden is running for reelection to a second term. Former President Donald Trump is also running for reelection to a second non-consecutive term after losing in 2020. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gathered the required signatures to qualify for the ballot, as he announced in early January. A June 2024 poll found that Republican nominee Donald Trump would get 49%, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would receive 20%, Democratic nominee Joe Biden would get 20%, and uncertain/don't know 11% if it the election was held today.

Democratic primary
The Utah Democratic primary was held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Incumbent president Joe Biden easily won the state, facing minor opposition from activist Marianne Williamson and Congressman Dean Phillips.

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Republican primary
The Utah Republican caucuses were held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Former president Donald Trump defeated former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in one of his weakest performances of the greater Republican primaries. The state GOP returned to organizing a caucus after its use of the primary system in 2020, which significantly lowered turnout.

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Polling

 * Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden


 * Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


 * Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein

Canceled debate
In November 2023, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced it would host its third of three general election debates at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on October 9, 2024. However, in May 2024, both the Biden and Trump campaigns declined to participate in CPD-sponsored debates due to conflicts with the commission regarding the 2020 debates. An alternative set of dates were scheduled by the campaigns themselves, effectively canceling the original schedule.

Candidate ballot access
As of June 2024, the following candidates have been designated as "Election Candidates":
 * Shiva Ayyadurai, unaffiliated
 * Joe Biden / Kamala Harris, Democratic
 * Claudia De la Cruz / Karina Garcia, unaffiliated
 * Lucifer "Justin Case" Everylove, unaffiliated
 * Robert F. Kennedy Jr. / Nicole Shanahan, unaffiliated
 * Cornel West / Melina Abdullah, unaffiliated

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lawsuit
On December 5, 2023, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a lawsuit against lieutenant governor Deidre Henderson and state elections director Ryan Cowley, arguing that the state's requirement for unaffiliated candidates to attain 1,000 verified signatures before the January 8 deadline is unconstitutional and that it forces Kennedy's campaign to hire professional petition circulators. In the 2020 election, the filing deadline was August 17, and was moved up in a bill passed by the Utah State Legislature in February 2022. Campaign lawyer Paul Rossi argued that the deadline was made "to block any third-party candidates from appearing on Utah’s ballot,” showing "an absolute contempt for the Constitution.” A court filing was made by state attorney general Sean Reyes on December 7, stating that Henderson and Cowley have agreed to not enforce the deadline until March 5, 2024, per request of senior judge David Nuffer. Kennedy later qualified to appear on the Utah ballot on December 28, 2023, marking the first state to award him official ballot access.