The 1960 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose four[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Utah was won by incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 54.81 percent of the popular vote, against Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 45.17 percent of the popular vote.[3][4] This was the first election since 1912 where Utah voted for the losing candidate.
| County | Richard Nixon
Republican | John F. Kennedy
Democratic | Farrell Dobbs
Socialist Workers | Margin | Total votes cast |
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % |
| Beaver | 971 | 45.65% | 1,156 | 54.35% | 0 | 0.00% | -185 | -8.70% | 2,127 |
| Box Elder | 6,594 | 63.23% | 3,831 | 36.74% | 3 | 0.03% | 2,763 | 26.49% | 10,428 |
| Cache | 10,281 | 67.65% | 4,917 | 32.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,364 | 35.30% | 15,198 |
| Carbon | 2,953 | 32.79% | 6,039 | 67.06% | 14 | 0.16% | -3,086 | -34.27% | 9,006 |
| Daggett | 196 | 44.95% | 239 | 54.82% | 1 | 0.23% | -43 | -9.87% | 436 |
| Davis | 13,782 | 57.34% | 10,244 | 42.62% | 8 | 0.03% | 3,538 | 14.72% | 24,034 |
| Duchesne | 1,546 | 56.98% | 1,166 | 42.98% | 1 | 0.04% | 380 | 14.00% | 2,713 |
| Emery | 1,283 | 50.89% | 1,238 | 49.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 45 | 1.78% | 2,521 |
| Garfield | 1,083 | 69.69% | 471 | 30.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 612 | 39.38% | 1,554 |
| Grand | 1,130 | 58.40% | 805 | 41.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 325 | 16.80% | 1,935 |
| Iron | 3,079 | 63.91% | 1,738 | 36.07% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,341 | 27.84% | 4,818 |
| Juab | 1,203 | 50.95% | 1,158 | 49.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 45 | 1.90% | 2,361 |
| Kane | 876 | 80.44% | 213 | 19.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 663 | 60.88% | 1,089 |
| Millard | 2,248 | 61.15% | 1,425 | 38.76% | 3 | 0.08% | 823 | 22.39% | 3,676 |
| Morgan | 775 | 55.44% | 622 | 44.49% | 1 | 0.07% | 153 | 10.95% | 1,398 |
| Piute | 453 | 64.71% | 247 | 35.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 206 | 29.42% | 700 |
| Rich | 511 | 63.72% | 291 | 36.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 220 | 27.44% | 802 |
| Salt Lake | 90,845 | 54.49% | 75,868 | 45.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 14,977 | 8.98% | 166,713 |
| San Juan | 1,408 | 62.72% | 837 | 37.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 571 | 25.44% | 2,245 |
| Sanpete | 3,322 | 60.35% | 2,180 | 39.60% | 3 | 0.05% | 1,142 | 20.75% | 5,505 |
| Sevier | 3,166 | 65.18% | 1,690 | 34.80% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,476 | 30.38% | 4,857 |
| Summit | 1,607 | 56.91% | 1,217 | 43.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 390 | 13.82% | 2,824 |
| Tooele | 3,016 | 45.10% | 3,665 | 54.80% | 7 | 0.10% | -649 | -9.70% | 6,688 |
| Uintah | 2,882 | 67.62% | 1,380 | 32.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,502 | 35.24% | 4,262 |
| Utah | 23,057 | 53.99% | 19,626 | 45.95% | 25 | 0.06% | 3,431 | 8.04% | 42,708 |
| Wasatch | 1,480 | 58.11% | 1,066 | 41.85% | 1 | 0.04% | 414 | 16.26% | 2,547 |
| Washington | 2,876 | 68.90% | 1,298 | 31.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,578 | 37.80% | 4,174 |
| Wayne | 446 | 53.86% | 382 | 46.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 64 | 7.72% | 828 |
| Weber | 22,293 | 47.88% | 24,239 | 52.06% | 31 | 0.07% | -1,946 | -4.18% | 46,563 |
| Totals | 205,361 | 54.81% | 169,248 | 45.17% | 100 | 0.03% | 36,113 | 9.64% | 374,709 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
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