This year’s United States presidential elections are getting closer and closer, and many people are looking back to try to understand the situation in which the Democratic Party and the Republican Party found themselves in the last elections in 2020.
In the 2020 United States presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the presidency, earning 306 electoral votes to then-President Donald Trump‘s 232. This margin of votes allowed Biden to take office with Kamala Harris as vice president, after achieving support of 81.2 million popular votes (51.3%), compared to Trump’s 74.2 million (46.8%). The election was historic due to its high turnout and also because Harris became the first woman and person of African American and Asian descent to hold the vice presidency.
The results certification ceremony took place in January 2021, after Congress verified the Electoral College votes.
States where Joe Biden won
In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden won 25 states, including several that had voted for Donald Trump in 2016. The key states that secured his victory were:
Traditionally Democratic States: Biden won in states where the Democratic Party is usually strong, such as:
- California
- New York
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Washington
- Maryland
- Oregon
– Key states or “swing states”: Biden won back several battleground states that Trump had won in 2016, which was crucial to his victory:
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
- Pennsylvania
- Georgia
- Arizona
– Other states where he also won:
- Colorado
- Nevada
- Minnesota
- New Hampshire
- Virginia
- New Mexico
States where Donald Trump won
In the 2020 election, Donald Trump won 25 states, securing a total of 232 electoral votes. States where Trump was victorious included:
– Traditionally republican states: These states tend to support Republican Party candidates, and Trump managed to maintain their support in 2020:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Idaho
- Kentucky
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska (Trump won 4 of the 5 electoral votes, as this state splits its votes)
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
– Other important states where Trump won:
- Florida
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Ohio
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Utah
Donald Trump also managed to win his candidacy in key states or “swing states”. In some disputed states, such as North Carolina and Maine, he was the candidate with the most votes, which contributed to Trump winning in several states in the center and south of the country, although they were not enough to surpass the electoral votes obtained by Joe Biden.
