Election results, 2020: Split-ticket states in the 2020 presidential and gubernatorial elections

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Updated November 16, 2020.

Eleven states held elections for governor in 2020, including seven with Republican governors heading into the election and four with Democratic governors.

Three of those states (New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Vermont) elected a governor of the opposite party to the presidential candidate they backed. New Hampshire and Vermont re-elected Republican governors while voting for Joe Biden (D), while North Carolina re-elected its Democratic governor while voting for Donald Trump (R).

All three states had split their tickets the same way in 2016, when each of the three governors re-elected in 2020 first won office. That year, two other states split their tickets by voting for a Democratic governor and Donald Trump for president: Montana and West Virginia. Both states voted for Trump again in 2020 and elected a Republican governor.

In Montana, Greg Gianforte (R) won the 2020 gubernatorial election after losing to incumbent Steve Bullock (D) in 2016, becoming the only candidate to flip control of a governor's office in 2020. In West Virginia, incumbent Jim Justice (R) was re-elected as a Republican. Justice was elected as a Democrat in 2016 and joined the GOP the following year.

Presidential and gubernatorial election results, 2020
State	Presidential election results	Gubernatorial election results
Delaware	D+19.0	D+20.9
Indiana	R+16.1	R+22.6
Missouri	R+15.6	R+16.6
Montana	R+16.3	R+12.4
New Hampshire	D+7.3	R+31.8
North Carolina	R+1.3	D+4.5
North Dakota	R+33.3	R+42.5
Utah	R+20.2	R+32.8
Vermont	D+35.4	R+41.1
Washington	D+19.4	D+13.6
West Virginia	R+38.9	R+33.5

See also

• Election results, 2020
• Split-ticket voting in statewide elections in 2018 and 2020
• Historical and potential changes in trifectas
• State government trifectas
• State government triplexes
• Gubernatorial elections, 2020
• Election results, 2020: State government trifectas
• Election results, 2020: State government triplexes
• Election results, 2020: Partisan balance of governors
• Election results, 2020: State trifectas and the 2020 presidential vote