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Comparison of 2020 presidential candidates to congressional and gubernatorial candidates by state
Date: November 3, 2020 |
 Donald Trump Joe Biden Howie Hawkins Jo Jorgensen
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This page compares the performance of Joe Biden (D) and Donald Trump (R) in the 2020 presidential election to gubernatorial and congressional races in each state. It provides the percentage difference between the number of votes received by Biden and Trump and the number of votes received by the respective Democratic and Republican candidates statewide.
- Comparison of presidential and U.S. Senate votes by party
- Comparison of presidential and U.S. House votes by party
- Comparison of presidential and gubernatorial votes by party
Comparison of presidential and U.S. Senate votes by party
- See also: United States Senate elections, 2020
Thirty-five U.S. Senate elections were held on November 3, 2020. The following chart compares the number of votes received by presidential candidates Joe Biden (D) and Donald Trump (R) to the number of votes for each state's respective Democratic and Republican senatorial candidates.[1]
- Biden outperformed Democratic Senate candidates in Nebraska, Maine, and Louisiana, by a percentage difference of 27.0%, 22.5%, and 15.8%, respectively.
- Trump outperformed Republican Senate candidates in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Delaware, by a percentage difference of 19.2%, 11.4%, and 7.5%, respectively.
- Biden underperformed Democratic Senate candidates in Montana, Alabama, and Mississippi, by a percentage difference of 10.7%, 8.0%, and 7.0%, respectively.
- Trump underperformed Republican Senate candidates in Maine, South Dakota, and Nebraska, by a percentage difference of 14.6%, 5.7%, and 4.7%, respectively.
Comparison of presidential and U.S. House votes by party
- See also: U.S. House elections, 2020
The following chart compares the number of votes received by presidential candidates Joe Biden (D) and Donald Trump (R) to the number of votes for each state's Democratic and Republican U.S. House candidates.
The following states did not have Democratic and/or Republican candidates in every congressional race and were excluded from the following analysis:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- California
- Florida
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- North Carolina
- New York
- Rhode Island
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Washington
Among the states with Democratic and Republican candidates in every congressional district:
- Biden outperformed the Democratic U.S. House candidates in Louisiana, North Dakota, and Nebraska, by a percentage difference of 16.3%, 15.9%, and 13.9%, respectively.
- Trump outperformed the Republican U.S. House candidates in Hawaii, Vermont, and West Virginia by a percentage difference of 23.7%, 20.9%, and 5.9%.
- Biden underperformed the Democratic U.S. House candidates in Maine, Montana, and West Virginia, by a percentage difference of 7.5%, 6.9%, and 4.5%, respectively.
- Trump underperformed the Republican U.S. House candidates in South Dakota, Maryland, and Nebraska, by a percentage difference of 20.9%, 5.2%, and 5.0%.
Comparison of presidential and gubernatorial votes by party
- See also: Gubernatorial elections, 2020
Eleven states held gubernatorial elections on November 3, 2020. The following chart compares the number of votes received by presidential candidates Joe Biden (D) and Donald Trump (R) to the number of votes for each state's respective Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates.
- Biden outperformed the Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Indiana, by a percentage difference of 84.0%, 46.5%, and 24.8%.
- Trump outperformed the Republican gubernatorial candidates in West Virginia, North Carolina, and Delaware, by a percentage difference of 9.1%, 6.4%, and 5.3%.
- Biden underperformed the Democratic gubernatorial candidates in North Carolina, Montana, and West Virginia, by a percentage difference of 5.5%, 2.5%, and 0.4%, respectively.
- Trump underperformed the Republican gubernatorial candidates in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Washington, by a percentage difference of 75.2%, 34.2%, and 9.9%, respectively.
See also
- Presidential election, 2020
- Presidential battleground states, 2020
- Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2020
- States with both gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections in 2020
- Election results, 2020: Analysis of voter turnout
- Results of U.S. House elections in presidential election years, 1920-2020
- Election results, 2020: Third-party candidates who won more than the margin of victory
- ↑ Votes for Georgia are based on the cumulative number of votes for Democratic and Republican candidates in the general election on November 3, 2020, rather than the runoff on January 5, 2021. No Democratic candidates were on the ballot in Alaska and Arkansas.
