August 15 is the Utah deadline for presidential candidates of unqualified parties, and independent presidential candidates, to submit their petitions. The state requires 1,000. Five petitions were submitted: Rocky De La Fuente, Alysson Kennedy (Socialist Workers Party), Evan McMullin, Monica Moorehead (Workers World Party), and Jill Stein (Green Party).

The qualified parties in Utah are Constitution, Democratic, Independent American, Libertarian, and Republican. If they all have a presidential nominee, and all the independent petitions are valid, Utah will have ten presidential candidates on the November ballot.