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2020 US Presidential Election Map By County & Vote Share

March 3, 2023 17 Comments

2020 US Presidential Election Map By County & Vote Share

Map created by Magog the Ogre via Wikimedia

The map above shows the county level and vote share results of the 2020 US Presidential Election. The darker the blue the more a county went for Joe Biden and the darker the red the more the county went for Donald Trump.

You can see how it compares to the 2016 map here.

While overall the map doesn’t look too dissimilar from 2016, the results in many ways couldn’t be more different. First and foremost Biden won whereas Clinton lost.

Moreover, as of December 2nd, 2020 Biden had received 15 million more votes than Clinton and 18 million more votes than Trump did in 2016. However, Trump also did better in 2020 than 2016 winning 11 million more votes than he did 4 years earlier, and 8 million more than Clinton did that year.

The difference of course is primarily down to the enormous increase in voter turnout 66.9% in 2020 vs just 55.7% in 2016.

This means Biden won 306 electoral college votes compared to 232 for Trump an almost complete switch from 2016 where he won 304 electoral college votes to 227 for Clinton (there were 7 faithless electors in 2016).

However, in terms of geography the pattern from 2016 largely remained the same. Biden won the majority of the people, Trump won the majority of the land.

According to NPR: “In 2020, just 77 counties total have flipped so far, and Biden won 59 of them.”

And according to the Brookings Institute: “Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy.”

Overall, at the time of writing Biden has won 477 counties, Trump has won 2,497 counties with 110 still outstanding.

This means Biden will have won the the presidency with the fewest counties (Obama won 689 in 2012), but also the largest number of votes in history.

This is part of a long-term trend where the Democrats are more and more concentrated geographically.

This would not be a problem for them if the presidency were decided by poplar vote. But the Electoral College favours small states at the expense of big ones, which means they are facing an increasingly difficult structural challenge.

This is a problem both for presidential elections and for hopes of regaining control in the Senate.

If you enjoyed this map you may also be interested in: If “Did Not Vote” Had Been A Candidate In The 2020 US Presidential Election

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Comments

  1. Clint says

    January 9, 2021 at 7:42 am

    Maps showing county fluctuations in voter turnout could tell an interesting story.

    Reply
  2. Palmetto95 says

    January 13, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    It’s Jan 2021 now, can you update the counties for Biden and Trump, please?

    Reply
    • Grant says

      January 13, 2022 at 6:52 am

      They cant cause it will show a red map

      Reply
  3. Tom Terwilliger says

    February 8, 2021 at 7:41 pm

    “This would not be a problem for them if the presidency were decided by poplar vote. But the Electoral College favours small states at the expense of big ones, which means they are facing an increasingly difficult structural challenge.

    This is a problem both for presidential elections and for hopes of regaining control in the Senate. ”

    This is not a “problem” at all, but rather a “design feature” that was deliberately built into our nation, and which, had it not been for this, we never would have had a nation in the first place.

    Stop all the bellyaching!

    Reply
    • MB says

      April 6, 2021 at 3:07 am

      Um, it was originally by popular vote. The “design feature” fell by the wayside when Repubs capped our representation.

      Reply
      • LookitUp says

        April 16, 2022 at 2:00 pm

        EC been around since 1789 you dumb a$$

        Reply
      • JRL says

        November 7, 2022 at 9:24 pm

        Read the Constitution, specifically Article II, Section 1.

        Reply
    • Geo says

      September 3, 2021 at 12:50 pm

      Amen brother!

      Reply
    • joseph salvo says

      November 5, 2021 at 5:45 pm

      We will stop our bellyaching , after Mike proves that he did not get anywhere near votes they claim. I am talking legal votes . Mike will prove to Supreme.. C.ourt on thanks giving weekend . that he lost and now the whole country has lost. He making our citzens pooorer while the are thosands sleeping on the street , including vets. This man and his family is in pockets of China ,Russia George soros Who by the way his son is married to Chelsa. now he wants big money to buy local officals to change local voting laws and put in there marxist just like happed in all 7 swing state . For taking millons from them he owes them. Hoping C linton ends up behind bars ,just like there doing to the so called insurection. not one gun or weapon. show me in history were that occured. This IDIOT is a Marxist. He must Go Now .

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      • Geoff says

        December 27, 2021 at 1:02 am

        how did the “supreme court case go?’ right, it didn’t. Because in court, unlike on twitter, saying something untrue carries real life penalties like contempt of court, disbarment and the like.

        Reply
    • SM says

      October 1, 2022 at 5:18 pm

      If Electoral votes are done with States, then why don’t they do it for the Counties? For example… Have every County/County equivalent get one vote. That way it doesn’t deal with big or small States. Also… The whole State is not controlled by their big city…. Chicago/Cook County controls the whole state in voting. And they wonder why the rest of the State has a low turn out at Election time.

      Reply
  4. Erich Goode says

    March 3, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    How does the user access each county in the US and find out what percent in each and every county voted for Trump vs. Biden? Erich Goode, NYC

    Reply
    • Hector Garcia says

      March 22, 2021 at 11:47 pm

      https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html?fbclid=IwAR1Do9xQS_jvW9juLHGGmobS8P8IM3Ca3w05gCr0gUy7Ol066B3u6z_iIcU

      Reply
  5. Eric Xxyyzz says

    April 18, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    Where can we access the raw data?

    Reply
  6. Dr. Scott Brown says

    May 2, 2021 at 5:16 am

    Your writers would do well to dig deeper into the Brookings Institute’s assertion that “Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy.” This poorly researched statistic really means that the profits of farmers whose wheat, barley or corn had a “bumper year,” pale in relation to the profits realized by the banks that carried loans, the grain buyers who then sell to the refiners or breweries, the brewers’ and refiners’ profits, and so on. In fact, all who benefit most from the efforts of the rural communities reside in cities. It is the rural counties that produce the nation’s necessities. The urban counties–buyers, bankers, brokers, breweries, refiners, bakeries–would be nowhere without the rural producers! A more accurate statistical analysis will demonstrate that, without rural producers and rural communities, there is no economy at all!

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  7. Eric says

    September 3, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    Nicely done map. It resembles a work of art with tiles for each county. Quite beautiful actually!

    Reply
  8. Trip Moore says

    May 29, 2022 at 1:42 am

    This map is proof the electoral college system, although its intentions are fair has failed the rural population of America. And is controlled by large population of major city constituents.

    Reply

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