{"id":401788,"date":"2026-09-22T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=401788"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:20:00","slug":"latter-day-saints-largely-identify-as-republican-but-stand-out-from-their-partisan-peers-on-diversity-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2026\/09\/22\/latter-day-saints-largely-identify-as-republican-but-stand-out-from-their-partisan-peers-on-diversity-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Latter-day Saints largely identify as Republican but stand out from their partisan peers on diversity issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
About this research<\/summary>\n

This project looks at the religious beliefs and practices, as well as the social and political views, of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called Mormons) in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center has long studied the religiousness and political attitudes of Americans in different religious traditions. This project builds on our major 2011 survey of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. Learn more about Pew Research Center<\/a> and our other research on religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This project is based mainly on data from the Center\u2019s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study<\/a> (RLS), a survey of 36,908 randomly sampled U.S. adults conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024. It included interviews with 565 people who currently identify as Latter-day Saints (414 lifelong church members and 151 converts), as well as 316 former Latter-day Saints. The RLS was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support from the Lilly Endowment Inc., Templeton Religion Trust, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are more details about the landscape study\u2019s methodology<\/a> and information on the sample sizes and margins of error<\/a> for subgroups of Latter-day Saints analyzed in this project.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Latter-day Saints are a heavily conservative group. About three-quarters (73%) identify as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents, while 23% identify as Democrats or Democratic leaners, according to Pew Research Center\u2019s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study<\/a>.[15. numoffset=”15″ While the percentages who identify with the two main political parties in this round of the RLS cannot be directly compared with previous RLS findings<\/a> for methodological reasons, in all three landscape studies most Latter-day Saints<\/a> have identified with or leaned toward the Republican Party.] (The RLS was conducted mostly in 2023 and the early part of 2024, before<\/em> the 2024 presidential election.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Share of Latter-day Saints who identify as Republican differs little by demographic subgroup<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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* The survey sample for this question included 151 interviews with Latter-day Saints who are converts to the church, with an effective sample size of 60 and a 95% confidence level margin of error of plus or minus 12.7 percentage points. This margin of error conservatively assumes a reported percentage of 50%. Bars in this graphic show margins of sampling error at a 95% confidence interval for each specific estimate.
Note: The only statistically significant differences in this graphic are the breaks by region and comparing lifelong Latter-day Saints with converts. The Mountain region includes Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Source: Religious Landscape Study of U.S. adults conducted July 17, 2023-March 4, 2024.
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