Sometime in the last couple months, the list of unaffiliated voters in Utah reached and passed the million mark. Call it Independents Day, if you will.
It didn't go completely unnoticed, a group called Represent Me Utah! even called a press conference to announce the milestone.
But more shocking than that there are more than a million unaffiliated voters, is that there are more unaffiliated voters than there are Republicans and Democrats . . . combined!
As of today (I called and got the numbers on my lunch break), there are 695,476 Republicans and 163,112 Democrats. Unaffiliateds? 1,004,398. Other parties? Libertarians, 5,730; Constitutionalists, 3,485; and Americans Elect, 10. The Lieutenant Governor's Office did not give me numbers for other parties, but I believe there might be a few more. At any rate, depending on the day the count is done as it varies, there are more unaffiliated voters in Utah than there are voters registered in all political parties combined.
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