1988 United States presidential election in Utah

none June 2025 September 2023 1988 United States presidential election 1988 United States presidential election in Utah Utah 1922 presidential no 1984 United States presidential election in Utah 1984 1992 United States presidential election in Utah 1992 November 8, 1988 x200px File:VP George Bush crop.jpg George H. W. Bush Republican Party (United States) Texas Dan Quayle 5 428,442 66.22% File:Dukakis campaign portrait 3x4.jpg Michael Dukakis Democratic Party (United States) Massachusetts Lloyd Bentsen 0 207,343 32.05% 1988 United States presidential election in Utah results map by county.svg 250px County results Bush #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% Dukakis #4389e3 60–70% President Ronald Reagan Republican Party (United States) George H. W. Bush Republican Party (United States) The 1988 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 8, 1988. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Utah was won by incumbent United States Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, who was running against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as Vice President, and Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Utah weighed in for this election as 26% more Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1988 was a very partisan election for Utah, with over 98 percent of the electorate voting for either the Republican or Democratic parties, though several other parties appeared on the ballot.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1988&fips=49&f=1&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1988 Presidential General Election Results – Utah Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas 2013-07-21 Every county in Utah voted in majority for the Republican candidate, except for Carbon County, which voted primarily for Dukakis. Bush won the election in Utah with a 34-point landslide – his strongest victory in the nation.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1988&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1988 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 He carried every county save heavily-unionized Carbon County.Wright Christian Carbon County, USA: Miners for Democracy in Utah and the West 2019 University of Utah Press 77400 book 978-1-60781-724-6 October 2023 This was the fourth election in a row in which Utah gave the Republican nominee his highest vote share of any state in the country. Utah had voted heavily for William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and for Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman in the two close elections of the first half of the 20th century, 1916 and 1948. However, like most of the rest of the Mountain West, Utah shifted toward the Republican Party in 1952, voting Republican in every subsequent election (as of 2024) save 1964, and voting for Johnson in 1964 by only 9.7%, amid Johnson's 22.6% national landslide. Results 1988 United States presidential election in UtahOfficial Results for the State of Utah - 1988 https://vote.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1988Gen.pdf 29 December 2025Sample Ballot https://www.newspapers.com/image/747152787/ 30 December 2025 The Wasatch Wave 2 November 1988 Heber 14 George H. W. Bush Republican Party (United States) 428,442 66.22% Michael Dukakis Democratic Party (United States) 207,343 32.05% Ron Paul Libertarian Party (United States) 7,473 1.16% Delmar Dennis American Party (1969) 2,158 0.33% Lenora Fulani New Alliance Party 455 0.07% Lyndon LaRouche #800020 National Economic Recovery 427 0.07% Louis Youngkeit Independent 372 0.06% James Warren Socialist Workers Party (United States) 209 0.03% Willa Kenoyer Socialist Party USA 129 0.02% 647,008 100.00% Results by county County George H. W. BushRepublican Michael DukakisDemocratic Ron PaulLibertarian Delmar DennisAmerican Other candidatesVarious parties Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % # % Beaver 1,286 60.89% 816 38.64% 7 0.33% 1 0.05% 2 0.09% 470 22.25% 2,112 Box Elder 12,585 81.40% 2,736 17.70% 95 0.61% 31 0.20% 14 0.09% 9,849 63.70% 15,461 Cache 21,766 77.84% 5,871 21.00% 182 0.65% 77 0.28% 67 0.24% 15,895 56.84% 27,963 Carbon 3,019 35.09% 5,521 64.18% 20 0.23% 19 0.22% 24 0.28% -2,502 -29.09% 8,603 Daggett 272 66.02% 132 32.04% 5 1.21% 2 0.49% 1 0.24% 140 33.98% 412 Davis 50,469 73.80% 16,868 24.67% 706 1.03% 209 0.31% 132 0.19% 33,601 49.13% 68,384 Duchesne 3,118 70.82% 1,227 27.87% 33 0.75% 19 0.43% 6 0.14% 1,891 42.95% 4,403 Emery 2,322 56.03% 1,788 43.15% 12 0.29% 15 0.36% 7 0.17% 534 12.88% 4,144 Garfield 1,470 79.25% 370 19.95% 9 0.49% 2 0.11% 4 0.22% 1,100 59.30% 1,855 Grand 1,895 58.34% 1,287 39.62% 34 1.05% 17 0.52% 13 0.40% 608 18.72% 3,248 Iron 6,038 76.74% 1,736 22.06% 34 0.43% 45 0.57% 15 0.19% 4,302 54.68% 7,868 Juab 1,505 59.65% 974 38.60% 29 1.15% 11 0.44% 4 0.16% 531 21.05% 2,523 Kane 1,788 79.29% 398 17.65% 60 2.66% 9 0.40% 0 0.00% 1,390 61.64% 2,255 Millard 3,515 74.63% 1,124 23.86% 48 1.02% 13 0.28% 10 0.21% 2,391 50.77% 4,710 Morgan 1,889 73.59% 647 25.20% 15 0.58% 11 0.43% 5 0.19% 1,242 48.39% 2,567 Piute 476 69.29% 206 29.99% 4 0.58% 1 0.15% 0 0.00% 270 39.30% 687 Rich 621 72.21% 234 27.21% 2 0.23% 2 0.23% 1 0.12% 387 45.00% 860 Salt Lake 163,557 59.07% 107,453 38.81% 4,127 1.49% 901 0.33% 865 0.31% 56,104 20.26% 276,903 San Juan 2,377 61.95% 1,407 36.67% 19 0.50% 14 0.36% 20 0.52% 970 25.28% 3,837 Sanpete 4,579 70.26% 1,822 27.96% 63 0.97% 34 0.52% 19 0.29% 2,757 42.30% 6,517 Sevier 4,747 76.31% 1,403 22.55% 33 0.53% 35 0.56% 3 0.05% 3,344 53.76% 6,221 Summit 3,881 59.68% 2,536 39.00% 63 0.97% 11 0.17% 12 0.18% 1,345 20.68% 6,503 Tooele 5,539 56.50% 4,166 42.49% 57 0.58% 24 0.24% 18 0.18% 1,373 14.01% 9,804 Uintah 5,341 74.00% 1,799 24.92% 24 0.33% 33 0.46% 21 0.29% 3,542 49.08% 7,218 Utah 68,134 77.23% 18,533 21.01% 1,103 1.25% 318 0.36% 139 0.16% 49,601 56.22% 88,227 Wasatch 2,487 62.22% 1,451 36.30% 42 1.05% 11 0.28% 6 0.15% 1,036 25.92% 3,997 Washington 13,306 80.33% 3,054 18.44% 107 0.65% 72 0.43% 26 0.16% 10,252 61.89% 16,565 Wayne 784 68.59% 353 30.88% 2 0.17% 1 0.09% 3 0.26% 431 37.71% 1,143 Weber 39,676 63.97% 21,431 34.56% 538 0.87% 220 0.35% 153 0.25% 18,245 29.41% 62,018Totals428,44266.22%207,34332.05%7,4731.16%2,1580.33%1,5920.25%221,09934.17%647,008 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Carbon See also United States presidential elections in Utah Presidency of George H. 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