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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.
[1]
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.
[2]
He carried every county save heavily-unionized
Carbon County
.
[3]
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
2020
) save
1964
, and voting for Johnson in 1964 by only 9.7%, amid Johnson's 22.6% national landslide.
Results
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Results by county
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County
|
George H.W. Bush
Republican
|
Michael Dukakis
Democratic
|
Ron Paul
[4]
Libertarian
|
Delmar Dennis
[4]
American
|
Various candidates
[4]
Other parties
|
Margin
|
Total votes cast
|
#
|
%
|
#
|
%
|
#
|
%
|
#
|
%
|
#
|
%
|
#
|
%
|
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%
|
62,018
|
Totals
|
428,442
|
66.22%
|
207,343
|
32.05%
|
7,473
|
1.16%
|
2,158
|
0.33%
|
1,592
|
0.25%
|
221,099
|
34.17%
|
647,008
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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
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