1992 United States presidential election in Utah
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November 3, 1992
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The 1992 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 3, 1992, and was part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Utah was won by President George H. W. Bush (R-TX) by a 16.0 percent margin of victory. This was one of only two states, the other one being Maine, where Ross Perot (I-TX) came in second place. Unlike Maine, Perot did not win any counties, though he placed second in nineteen of twenty-nine to overcome Bill Clinton (D-AR) in the popular vote. Likewise it was the only time Bill Clinton finished third in a state, in either the 1992 or 1996 election, despite winning two counties. Utah and Maine (the latter of which Bush finished third behind Perot) in 1992 constitute the last time (as of the 2024 presidential election[update]) that any major party candidate has finished third in a state, and the only time in a non-Confederate state since Robert M. La Follette finished ahead of John W. Davis in twelve states[a] in 1924.[1]
Utah was Perot's third-highest vote percentage behind Maine and Alaska.[2]
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | George H. W. Bush (inc.) | 322,632 | 43.36% | |
| Independent | Ross Perot | 203,400 | 27.34% | |
| Democratic | Bill Clinton | 183,429 | 24.65% | |
| Populist | Bo Gritz | 28,602 | 3.84% | |
| Libertarian | Andre Marrou | 1,900 | 0.26% | |
| Natural Law | John Hagelin | 1,319 | 0.18% | |
| Independents for Economic Recovery | Lyndon LaRouche | 1,089 | 0.15% | |
| New Alliance | Lenora Fulani | 414 | 0.06% | |
| U.S. Taxpayers | Howard Phillips | 393 | 0.05% | |
| American | Robert J. Smith | 292 | 0.04% | |
| Socialist Workers | James Warren | 200[c] | 0.03% | |
| Campaign for a New Tomorrow | Ron Daniels | 177 | 0.02% | |
| Socialist | J. Quinn Brisben | 151 | 0.02% | |
| Total votes | 743,998 | 100.00% | ||
Results by county
[edit]| County[3] | George H. W. Bush Republican |
Ross Perot Independent |
Bill Clinton Democratic |
Bo Gritz Populist |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin[d] | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Beaver | 1,040 | 49.27% | 330 | 15.63% | 668 | 31.64% | 52 | 2.46% | 21 | 0.99% | 372[e] | 17.63% | 2,111 |
| Box Elder | 7,712 | 49.58% | 4,507 | 28.97% | 2,186 | 14.05% | 1,013 | 6.51% | 137 | 0.88% | 3,205 | 20.61% | 15,555 |
| Cache | 15,971 | 51.98% | 8,032 | 26.14% | 4,973 | 16.19% | 1,511 | 4.92% | 238 | 0.77% | 7,939 | 25.84% | 30,725 |
| Carbon | 2,038 | 23.11% | 2,002 | 22.71% | 4,480 | 50.81% | 235 | 2.67% | 62 | 0.70% | -2,442[e] | -27.70% | 8,817 |
| Daggett | 172 | 38.91% | 117 | 26.47% | 122 | 27.60% | 30 | 6.79% | 1 | 0.23% | 50[e] | 11.31% | 442 |
| Davis | 39,087 | 48.05% | 24,105 | 29.63% | 14,924 | 18.35% | 2,723 | 3.35% | 511 | 0.63% | 14,982 | 18.42% | 81,350 |
| Duchesne | 1,983 | 43.44% | 1,229 | 26.92% | 772 | 16.91% | 537 | 11.76% | 44 | 0.96% | 754 | 16.52% | 4,565 |
| Emery | 1,643 | 36.43% | 1,138 | 25.23% | 1,349 | 29.91% | 364 | 8.07% | 16 | 0.35% | 294[e] | 6.52% | 4,510 |
| Garfield | 1,235 | 62.28% | 355 | 17.90% | 309 | 15.58% | 79 | 3.98% | 5 | 0.25% | 880 | 44.38% | 1,983 |
| Grand | 1,100 | 32.91% | 991 | 29.65% | 1,160 | 34.71% | 44 | 1.32% | 47 | 1.41% | -60[e] | -1.80% | 3,342 |
| Iron | 5,616 | 59.88% | 1,693 | 18.05% | 1,537 | 16.39% | 440 | 4.69% | 92 | 0.98% | 3,923 | 41.83% | 9,378 |
| Juab | 1,237 | 42.73% | 616 | 21.28% | 823 | 28.43% | 209 | 7.22% | 10 | 0.35% | 414[e] | 14.30% | 2,895 |
| Kane | 1,241 | 57.14% | 534 | 24.59% | 295 | 13.58% | 85 | 3.91% | 17 | 0.78% | 707 | 32.55% | 2,172 |
| Millard | 2,496 | 52.33% | 1,064 | 22.31% | 742 | 15.56% | 417 | 8.74% | 51 | 1.07% | 1,432 | 30.02% | 4,770 |
| Morgan | 1,339 | 45.54% | 851 | 28.95% | 520 | 17.69% | 225 | 7.65% | 5 | 0.17% | 488 | 16.59% | 2,940 |
| Piute | 429 | 56.97% | 146 | 19.39% | 169 | 22.44% | 9 | 1.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 260[e] | 34.53% | 753 |
| Rich | 525 | 59.93% | 187 | 21.35% | 154 | 17.58% | 10 | 1.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 338 | 38.58% | 876 |
| Salt Lake | 117,247 | 36.79% | 91,968 | 28.86% | 100,082 | 31.41% | 6,444 | 2.02% | 2,920 | 0.92% | 17,165[e] | 5.38% | 318,661 |
| San Juan | 2,004 | 46.23% | 576 | 13.29% | 1,639 | 37.81% | 111 | 2.56% | 5 | 0.12% | 365[e] | 8.42% | 4,335 |
| Sanpete | 2,995 | 44.80% | 1,742 | 26.06% | 1,302 | 19.48% | 575 | 8.60% | 71 | 1.06% | 1,253 | 18.74% | 6,685 |
| Sevier | 3,160 | 50.50% | 1,671 | 26.70% | 1,039 | 16.60% | 329 | 5.26% | 59 | 0.94% | 1,489 | 23.80% | 6,258 |
| Summit | 3,133 | 33.33% | 3,060 | 32.56% | 3,013 | 32.06% | 128 | 1.36% | 65 | 0.69% | 73 | 0.77% | 9,399 |
| Tooele | 3,676 | 35.79% | 3,011 | 29.32% | 3,270 | 31.84% | 224 | 2.18% | 90 | 0.88% | 406[e] | 3.95% | 10,271 |
| Uintah | 3,505 | 45.09% | 2,250 | 28.94% | 1,374 | 17.67% | 589 | 7.58% | 56 | 0.72% | 1,255 | 16.15% | 7,774 |
| Utah | 61,398 | 56.76% | 24,558 | 22.70% | 14,090 | 13.02% | 7,410 | 6.85% | 722 | 0.67% | 36,840 | 34.06% | 108,178 |
| Wasatch | 1,822 | 42.02% | 1,234 | 28.46% | 1,042 | 24.03% | 178 | 4.11% | 60 | 1.38% | 588 | 13.56% | 4,336 |
| Washington | 11,310 | 52.66% | 4,623 | 21.53% | 3,364 | 15.66% | 2,037 | 9.49% | 142 | 0.66% | 6,687 | 31.13% | 21,476 |
| Wayne | 706 | 57.63% | 251 | 20.49% | 236 | 19.27% | 30 | 2.45% | 2 | 0.16% | 455 | 37.14% | 1,225 |
| Weber | 26,812 | 39.30% | 20,559 | 30.14% | 17,795 | 26.09% | 2,564 | 3.76% | 486 | 0.71% | 6,253 | 9.16% | 68,216 |
| Totals | 322,632 | 43.36% | 203,400 | 27.34% | 183,429 | 24.65% | 28,602 | 3.84% | 5,935 | 0.80% | 119,232 | 16.02% | 743,998 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
[edit]Electors
[edit]Technically the voters of Utah cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Utah is allocated five electors because it has three congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of five electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins a plurality of votes in the state is awarded all five electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met in December 1992 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead, the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.
All electors from Utah were pledged to and voted for George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ States where La Follette finished ahead of Davis in 1924 were Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, California, Washington, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nevada and Oregon.
- ^ The FEC report mentions there having been 1 write-in vote for Norman Leonard Jackson. America Votes 20 (1993) also mentions there having been a single write-in vote, but does not list it in the county results, even though it's included in the total. In any case, this vote is not mentioned in the state's official report.
- ^ Leip's Atlas says that the state's election report missed 70 votes for Warren in Salt Lake County, basing this conclusion off the county's individual return. This omission is not mentioned in America Votes 20; Scammon's compilations tend to note when such mistakes are made but in this case it is silent. The official statewide total for Warren is 200.
- ^ Because Perot finished ahead of Clinton in Utah as a whole, all margins given are Bush minus Perot unless stated in the total for the county in question.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j In this county where Clinton ran ahead of Perot, the margin given is Bush vote minus Clinton vote.
References
[edit]- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868–2004, pp. 55, 109 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ "1992 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ a b "State of Utah - General Election Report - November 3, 1992" (PDF). Retrieved December 29, 2025.
- ^ "Sample Ballot". The Morgan County News. Morgan. October 30, 1992. p. 15. Retrieved December 30, 2025.
- ^ "Federal Elections 92" (PDF). Washington D.C.: Federal Election Commission. 1993. pp. 27–28. Retrieved December 30, 2025.
- ^ Scammon, Richard M.; McGillivray, Alice V., eds. (1993). America Votes 20: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics. Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly. p. 480. Retrieved December 30, 2025.
