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When will we know? · Utah

When will we know Utah’s 2026 election results?

In 2024, none of Utah’s vote was counted by 9 PM ET, none by 11 PM and 53% by 1 AM.

It had not passed 95% by 2:37 AM ET, the last overnight copy in the archive (60%); the archive has no later copy for Utah.

Polls in Utah close at 10 PM ET.

The count by the hour, election night 2024

Share of Utah’s final 2024 count that was in, by capture time from 8 PM to 2:37 AM ET0%50%100%8 PM9 PM10 PM11 PMmidnight1 AM2 AM0%0%53%
Share of Utah’s final 2024 count that was in, by capture time from 8 PM to 2:37 AM ET0%50%100%8 PM10 PMmidnight2 AM0%0%53%
Utah, statewide its biggest counties, each against its own final count

The biggest counties, and when each was in

Share of each county’s own final 2024 count that was in at 9 PM, 11 PM and 1 AM Eastern, and when it passed 90%.
CountyOf the state’s voteBy 9 PMBy 11 PMBy 1 AMPast 90% by
Salt Lake38%nonenone52%not by 2:37 AM
Utah19%nonenone54%not by 2:37 AM
Davis10%nonenone80%not by 2:37 AM
Weber7%nonenone64%not by 2:37 AM

Each percentage is of that county’s own final count, not of the state’s. “none” means the feed showed no votes yet; “not measured” means the feed did not carry the county’s count at that time, which is not the same as zero. A time after 2:37 AM is the first archived copy at that level; the archive has no copy between 2:37 AM and 2:37 PM on Nov. 6, so the count may have passed it earlier.

What comes late, and why

Takes days. AP: Utah counted a third of its votes after Election Day in 2022 and those ballots favored Democrats by 4 points; about 63% of the 2020 vote was reported by midnight ET. In 2024 clerks kept updating until the canvass, which officials put at 7 to 14 days after the election; for 2026 the mail deadline is receipt by Election Day (MAP), which should shorten the tail.

Sources: AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Utah on Election Day (AP, syndicated by iNFOnews); KSL: Utah results continue to trickle in as clerks count votes after Election Day; MIT Election Data + Science Lab: How long did it take to count the vote in 2024? (Baltz); Movement Advancement Project: Mail ballot receipt deadline. These describe the 2020, 2022 and 2024 elections and the rules in force when they were read; they are not a statement about 2026.

The 2026 races here

No race in Utah is rated Toss-up, Tilt or Lean in our current forecast.

See every race in Utah, print the Election Night Guide to follow the count, or make your calls in the prediction game.

Sources and method

Counts
The New York Times presidential county results feed (Associated Press data), President only, as the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine kept it. Copies used: 7:59 PM ET Nov. 5 to 2:37 AM ET Nov. 6. The archive has no capture of this feed between 2:37 AM and 2:37 PM ET on Nov 6 2024; a state still counting at 2:37 AM is not measured again until the afternoon (and only the 16 states with an 'after' point carry later captures).
Final count
NYT total_expected_vote per unit in the last archived capture of Nov 8 2024 (statewide 1,532,013), or the largest count seen where that was lower. It is the feed’s last archived value, not a certified canvass.
The 8 archived copies behind this page
  1. 8 PM · 0% of the state’s final count in · taken 19:59 ET 11/05
  2. 9 PM · 0% of the state’s final count in · taken 21:00 ET 11/05
  3. 10 PM · 0% of the state’s final count in · taken 22:00 ET 11/05
  4. 11 PM · 0% of the state’s final count in · taken 22:59 ET 11/05
  5. midnight · under 1% of the state’s final count in · taken 23:51 ET 11/05
  6. 1 AM · 53% of the state’s final count in · taken 01:00 ET 11/06
  7. 2 AM · 60% of the state’s final count in · taken 01:57 ET 11/06
  8. 2:37 AM · 60% of the state’s final count in · taken 02:37 ET 11/06