Are Latter-day Saints shifting left? Here’s what the data shows

An analysis of the 2024 presidential election found that politically moderate and younger Latter-day Saints have “warmed up” to President Donald Trump after swinging away from the Republican candidate in 2016 and 2020.

The Republican rebound among young and moderate voters goes against some predictions of a permanent Latter-day Saint shift toward the Democratic Party during the Trump era, according to a comparison of election data published Monday by political scientist Ryan Burge.

“There’s nothing here that says that the LDS vote is trending to the left,” Burge told the Deseret News. “You can’t look at the data and make that claim.”