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1876–2024
Box Elder County, Utah
Box Elder County·Utah

Box Elder County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.

One of Utah's most lopsided rural counties by presidential margin

18762024·38 elections
Box Elder County, Utah · Tricia Simpson · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+61
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
61,246
2024 ACS
Most similar
Bonneville County
ID · similarity 1.00
51 precincts · 28,920 votes cast
Trump · R+61
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−60.8%
5,27422,85328,920
2020R
−62.5%
4,47321,54827,320
2016R
−50.0%
2,28212,23019,878
2012R
−77.9%
1,98417,10119,408
2008R
−62.5%
3,31115,22819,058
2004R
−73.5%
2,24415,75118,368
2000R
−62.9%
2,55512,28815,483
1996R
−38.9%
3,1708,37313,365
1992R
−35.5%
2,1867,71215,555
1988R
−63.7%
2,73612,58515,461
1984R
−73.7%
1,98313,24315,283
1980R
−68.5%
2,14212,50015,111
1976R
−44.2%
3,3539,31913,501
1972R
−60.5%
2,1349,88012,794
1968R
−39.2%
3,0937,68011,688
1964R
−14.5%
5,1136,85111,964
1960R
−26.5%
3,8316,59410,428
1956R
−36.7%
2,6895,8048,493
1952R
−32.4%
2,9845,8508,834
1948R
−1.6%
3,6673,7907,475
1944D
+15.0%
4,1383,0587,201
1940D
+18.6%
4,7363,2487,986
1936D
+39.0%
5,0012,1807,231
1932D
+9.5%
3,6953,0486,827
1928R
−14.2%
2,4883,3175,825
1924R
−22.7%
1,8413,0865,493
1920R
−18.8%
2,3303,4215,812
1916D
+10.0%
2,9572,4165,408
1912R
−6.1%
1,4021,6504,063
1908R
−25.4%
1,4172,3963,855
1904R
−34.7%
1,1512,4003,595
1900R
−5.6%
1,4601,6353,101
1896D
+43.8%
1,8797352,614
1892
No data
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Other Christian
85.3%
Non-Christian
2.2%
Catholic & Orthodox
1.7%
Mainline Protestant
0.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
0.2%
Baptist
0.1%
Methodist
0.1%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 9.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Box Elder stretches from the Great Salt Lake to the Idaho border, combining ranching communities and small agricultural towns that have delivered Republican presidential margins above 55 points in each of the last three cycles.

The Republican margin in Box Elder County reached its widest at seventy-eight points in 2012. The margin in 2024 was sixty-one points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Box Elder County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $84,550, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 61,246 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bonneville County and Midland County.