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TheDistrict of Columbia participated in the2020 United States presidential election with the other 50 states on Tuesday, November 3.[2] District of Columbia voters chose electors to represent them in theElectoral College via a popular vote, pitting theRepublican Party's nominee, incumbent PresidentDonald Trump, and running mateVice PresidentMike Pence againstDemocratic Party nominee, former Vice PresidentJoe Biden, and his running mate California SenatorKamala Harris. The District of Columbia has three electoral votes in the Electoral College.[3] Prior to the election, Biden was considered to be all but certain to win D.C.
The nation's capital is overwhelmingly Democratic and has voted for the Democratic nominee by massive margins in every presidential election it has participated in, ever since it was first grantedelectors by the passage of theTwenty-third Amendment in 1961. Biden's 86.75-point margin of victory was virtually identical to that secured byHillary Clinton in2016.[4]
Nevertheless, the District shifted by 0.02% to the right compared with the previous election, likely due to a decline in third-party voting, making Biden the first non-incumbent Democrat since1988 to win D.C. by a smaller margin than in the previous cycle. Biden still received the second-highest share of the vote in D.C., behind only Obama in2008. Along with six states,[a] it was one of seven jurisdictions where Trump improved on his 2016 margins.
The District of Columbia held primary elections on June 2, 2020.
Donald Trump ran unopposed in the Republican primary, and thus received all of the district's 19 delegates to the2020 Republican National Convention.[5]
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| Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates[7][8] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 84,093 | 75.97 | 19 |
| Elizabeth Warren(withdrawn) | 14,228 | 12.85 | 1 |
| Bernie Sanders(withdrawn) | 11,116 | 10.04 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard(withdrawn) | 442 | 0.40 | |
| Write-in votes | 809 | 0.73 | |
| Total | 110,688 | 100% | 20 |
| Source | Ranking |
|---|---|
| The Cook Political Report[9] | Solid D |
| Inside Elections[10] | Solid D |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball[11] | Safe D |
| Politico[12] | Solid D |
| RCP[13] | Solid D |
| Niskanen[14] | Safe D |
| CNN[15] | Solid D |
| The Economist[16] | Safe D |
| CBS News[17] | Likely D |
| 270towin[18] | Safe D |
| ABC News[19] | Solid D |
| NPR[20] | Likely D |
| NBC News[21] | Solid D |
| 538[22] | Solid D |
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| Source of poll aggregation | Dates administered | Dates updated | Joe Biden Democratic | Donald Trump Republican | Other/ Undecided [b] | Margin |
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| FiveThirtyEight[23] | until November 2, 2020 | November 3, 2020 | 90.8% | 5.8% | 3.4% | Biden +85.0 |
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size[c] | Margin of error | Donald Trump Republican | Joe Biden Democratic | Jo Jorgensen Libertarian | Howie Hawkins Green | Other | Undecided |
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| SurveyMonkey/Axios[24] | Oct 20 – Nov 2, 2020 | 495 (LV) | ± 6% | 5%[d] | 94% | – | – | – | – |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios[24] | Oct 1–28, 2020 | 969 (LV) | – | 9% | 89% | – | – | – | – |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios[24] | Sep 1–30, 2020 | 343 (LV) | – | 12% | 86% | – | – | – | 2% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios[24] | Aug 1–31, 2020 | 252 (LV) | – | 16% | 83% | – | – | – | 2% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios[24] | Jul 1–31, 2020 | 290 (LV) | – | 8% | 91% | – | – | – | 1% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios[24] | Jun 8–30, 2020 | 151 (LV) | – | 11% | 87% | – | – | – | 3% |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Joe Biden Kamala Harris | 317,323 | 92.15 | +1.29 | |
| Republican | Donald Trump Mike Pence | 18,586 | 5.40 | +1.31 | |
| Write-in | 3,137 | 0.91 | –1.19 | ||
| Libertarian | Jo Jorgensen Spike Cohen | 2,036 | 0.59 | –0.99 | |
| Green | Howie Hawkins Angela Walker | 1,726 | 0.50 | –0.87 | |
| Independent | Gloria La Riva Sunil Freeman | 855 | 0.25 | +0.25 | |
| Independent | Brock Pierce Karla Ballard | 693 | 0.20 | +0.20 | |
| Total votes | 344,356 | 100.00 | +1.60 | ||
| Ward[25] | Joe Biden Democratic | Donald Trump Republican | Various Candidates Other Parties | Margin | Total Votes Cast | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Ward 1 | 39,041 | 93.67% | 1,725 | 4.14% | 915 | 2.19% | 37,316 | 89.53% | 41,681 |
| Ward 2 | 29,078 | 88.43% | 2,918 | 8.87% | 885 | 2.70% | 26,160 | 79.56% | 32,881 |
| Ward 3 | 39,397 | 89.07% | 3,705 | 8.38% | 1,129 | 2.55% | 35,692 | 80.69% | 44,231 |
| Ward 4 | 42,489 | 93.80% | 1,913 | 4.22% | 894 | 1.98% | 40,576 | 89.58% | 45,296 |
| Ward 5 | 43,320 | 93.96% | 1,769 | 3.84% | 1,018 | 2.20% | 41,551 | 90.12% | 46,107 |
| Ward 6 | 56,719 | 90.15% | 4,337 | 6.89% | 1,862 | 2.96% | 52,382 | 83.26% | 62,918 |
| Ward 7 | 36,382 | 94.78% | 1,134 | 2.95% | 868 | 2.27% | 35,248 | 91.83% | 38,384 |
| Ward 8 | 30,897 | 94.03% | 1,085 | 3.30% | 876 | 2.67% | 29,812 | 90.73% | 32,858 |
| Total | 317,323 | 92.15% | 18,586 | 5.40% | 8,447 | 2.45% | 298,737 | 86.75% | 344,356 |
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State legislation related to the administration of elections introduced in 2011 through this year, 2020
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