See main article: 2020 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia |
| Country: | District of Columbia |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| College Voted: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2016 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia |
| Previous Year: | 2016 |
| Election Date: | November 3, 2020 |
| Next Election: | 2024 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Turnout: | 66.9%[1] |
| Image1: | Joe Biden presidential portrait (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Joe Biden |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | Delaware |
| Running Mate1: | Kamala Harris |
| Electoral Vote1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 317,323 |
| Percentage1: | |
| Nominee2: | Donald Trump |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Florida |
| Running Mate2: | Mike Pence |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 18,586 |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Donald Trump |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Joe Biden |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The District of Columbia participated in the 2020 United States presidential election with the other 50 states on Tuesday, November 3.[2] District of Columbia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala 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 granted electors by the passage of the Twenty-third Amendment in 1961. Biden's 86.75-point margin of victory was virtually identical to that secured by Hillary Clinton in 2016.[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 since 1988 to win D.C. by a smaller margin than in the previous cycle. Along with six states, it was one of just 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 the 2020 Republican National Convention.[5]
| Source | Ranking | |
|---|---|---|
| The Cook Political Report[6] | ||
| Inside Elections[7] | ||
| Sabato's Crystal Ball[8] | ||
| Politico[9] | ||
| RCP[10] | ||
| Niskanen[11] | ||
| CNN[12] | ||
| The Economist[13] | ||
| CBS News[14] | ||
| 270towin[15] | ||
| ABC News[16] | ||
| NPR[17] | ||
| NBC News[18] | ||
| 538[19] |
| Donald Trump | Other/ Undecided | Margin | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FiveThirtyEight[20] | until November 2, 2020 | November 3, 2020 | 90.8% | 5.8% | 3.4% | Biden +85.0 |
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | Jo Jorgensen | Howie Hawkins | Other | Undecided | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SurveyMonkey/Axios[21] | Oct 20 – Nov 2, 2020 | 495 (LV) | ± 6% | 5% | 94% | – | – | – | – | ||
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Oct 1–28, 2020 | 969 (LV) | – | 9% | 89% | – | – | – | – | ||
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Sep 1–30, 2020 | 343 (LV) | – | 12% | 86% | – | – | – | 2% | ||
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Aug 1–31, 2020 | 252 (LV) | – | 16% | 83% | – | – | – | 2% | ||
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Jul 1–31, 2020 | 290 (LV) | – | 8% | 91% | – | – | – | 1% | ||
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Jun 8–30, 2020 | 151 (LV) | – | 11% | 87% | – | – | – | 3% |
| Ward[22] | data-sort-type="number" | Biden | data-sort-type="number" | Biden % | data-sort-type="number" | Trump | data-sort-type="number" | Trump % | data-sort-type="number" | Others | data-sort-type="number" | Others % | data-sort-type="number" | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward 1 | 39,041 | 93.7% | 1,725 | 4.1% | 298 | 0.7% | 41,064 | |||||||
| Ward 2 | 29,078 | 88.4% | 2,918 | 8.9% | 370 | 1.1% | 32,366 | |||||||
| Ward 3 | 39,397 | 89.1% | 3,705 | 8.4% | 491 | 1.1% | 43,593 | |||||||
| Ward 4 | 42,489 | 93.8% | 1,913 | 4.2% | 308 | 0.7% | 44,710 | |||||||
| Ward 5 | 43,320 | 94.0% | 1,769 | 3.8% | 323 | 0.7% | 45,412 | |||||||
| Ward 6 | 56,719 | 90.1% | 4,337 | 6.9% | 857 | 1.4% | 61,913 | |||||||
| Ward 7 | 36,382 | 94.8% | 1,134 | 3.0% | 270 | 0.7% | 37,786 | |||||||
| Ward 8 | 30,897 | 94.0% | 1,085 | 3.3% | 220 | 0.7% | 32,202 |