Nearly three-quarters of American Latter-day Saints affiliate with or lean toward the Republican Party, according to a Pew Research Center report that aggregates data collected from 88 political surveys over the past decade.
In one sense that’s not terribly surprising, given that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have since the 1950s displayed a strong affinity for the GOP.
“Mormons are a pretty strongly Republican group,” says Gregory Smith, associate director for research at Pew Research Center. Over the course of the decade, Latter-day Saints’ GOP affiliation has remained within the same 10-point range, with a high of 77% in 2011 to a low of 67% in 2016, the year Donald Trump was elected president.