The Statement of Votes Cast (SOVC) for the 2024 general election, available from Utah County, shows the vote for every candidate and proposition in every precinct of Utah County, as well and the number of registered voters and the number of votes cast in each precinct, from which we calculate voter turnout.

I’m an election junkie and therefore, perhaps, a bit of a spreadsheet junkie, so I dug in primarily to see how the various cities voted on Propositions 11 and 14, to create new school districts from the northern and western cities in the Alpine School District, respectively.

I wrote at length on the propositions before the election, including on what would happen if they passed. I won’t repeat that here, except to note that both groups of cities will be forming their own new school districts, and the remainder of the ASD will form a third district, effective before the 2027-28 school year begins. The ASD will cease to exist.

That both propositions passed is unsurprising. That 14 passed by an even larger margin than 11 is equally unsurprising.

Proposition 11

American Fork was the only city that, in the aggregate, voted against splitting the Alpine School District. At the precinct level, 18 of its 25 precincts voted against it. The margins varied widely.

Prop 11’s overall margin of victory, 15.2%, is not small — but it’s only about two-thirds of the margin by which Proposition 14 won.

CityVotes FOR% FORMargin% AGAINSTVotes AGAINST
American Fork8,23647.0%-5.9%53.0%9,277
Alpine3,92665.9%+31.7%34.1%2,035
Cedar Hills2,84154.2%+8.4%45.8%2,400
Draper (Utah County)1,08367.9%+35.7%32.1%513
Highland6,81661.2%+22.3%38.9%4,331
Lehi21,31260.4%+20.8%39.6%13,974
Misc. Uninc.11257.1%+12.3%42.9%84
TOTALS44,326*57.6%+15.2%42.4%32,614**

* SOVC says 44,349; the total doesn’t quite equal the sum of the parts.
** SOVC says 32,639; the total doesn’t quite equal the sum of the parts.

Proposition 14

Proposition 14, to create a new district from the western cities of the ASD, passed by a landslide, more than 23%. Only 2 of 56 precincts in the entire area voted against Prop 14, and then by only 23 votes (2.2%) and 18 votes (4.2%), respectively. Both were in Saratoga Springs, where Prop 14 passed overall by a robust 17.9%.

CityVotes FOR% FORMargin% AGAINSTVotes AGAINST
Cedar Fort18375.3%+50.6%24.7%60
Eagle Mountain13,67663.8%+27.7%36.2%7,745
Fairfield7770.0%+40.0%30.0%33
Saratoga Springs12,28559.0%+17.9%41.1%8,555
TOTALS26,221*61.5%+23.1%38.5%16,393**

* SOVC says 26.228; the total doesn’t quite equal the sum of the parts.
** SOVC says 16,395; the total doesn’t quite equal the sum of the parts.

Turnout

Turnout county-wide was an excellent 83.8%. I doubt it can get much higher in practice; there are always some voters who are still on the rolls but have moved or passed away.

For what it’s worth, I ran the numbers to see if turnout was significantly higher in the cities and precincts with a proposition related to splitting ASD. It was only very slightly higher, about 1.15%. The big voter draws were higher on the ballot, no doubt.

Thanks for reading.

David Rodeback was born in Boulder, Colorado, and came to American Fork in 1998 via southeast Idaho and upstate New York.

His occasional writings about politics and government beyond the local level now appear at The Freedom Habit Substack, where a free subcription puts them in your e-mail inbox, so you don’t have to trust an algorithm or search engine.

His published fiction, which mostly isn’t about politics or government, is available online at all the usual places (see 60EastPress.com for more information and easy links) and also at American Fork’s fine mostly-used book store, HideAway Books, in the Local Authors section. You can even find his books at the American Fork Library.