2020 United States presidential election in New Jersey

2020 United States presidential election in New Jersey

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TurnoutIncrease 72%
 
Nominee Joe Biden Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Delaware Florida
Running mate Kamala Harris Mike Pence
Electoral vote 14 0
Popular vote 2,608,400 1,883,313
Percentage 57.34% 41.40%


President before election

Donald Trump
Republican

Elected President

Joe Biden
Democratic

The 2020 United States presidential election in New Jersey was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated.[1] New Jersey 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. New Jersey has 14 electoral votes in the Electoral College.[2]

Biden carried New Jersey by 15.94%, making the state 11.49% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Per exit polls by the Associated Press, Biden's victory came from a coalition of key Democratic constituencies, including 86% of Blacks, 76% of Asians, 72% of Hispanic and Latino Americans, and 50% of Whites.[3] Biden's strength with Asian Americans was evident in New Jersey, where Asians constituted 10.0% of the population in 2019.[4][5]

Biden flipped Gloucester County, which was reliably Democratic until Trump flipped it in 2016. He also became the first Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to win Morris County, which Cory Booker won in the simultaneous senate election.[6] This also became the first presidential election since 2000 in which Salem County did not vote for the national winner.[12][13] Trump carried 255 of New Jersey's 565 municipalities, fewer than the 307 he carried in 2016, with Biden carrying the other 310.[14] Biden's 2.6 million votes is the most received by any candidate of either party in a presidential election in the state's history.

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  7. ^ "Salem County General Election Results: Presidential (2016)" (PDF). New Jersey Division of Elections. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  8. ^ "General Election Results Salem County: Presidential (2012)" (PDF). New Jersey Division of Elections. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  9. ^ "General Election Presidential Results: Salem County (2008)" (PDF). New Jersey Division of Elections. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  10. ^ "Salem County Presidential Results (2004)" (PDF). New Jersey Division of Elections. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  11. ^ "Official General Election Results: President (2000)" (PDF). New Jersey Division of Elections. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  12. ^ [7][8][9][10][11]
  13. ^ "General Election Results: President (1992)" (PDF). New Jersey Division of Elections. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  14. ^ "These 53 N.J. Towns flipped from Trump to Biden in 2020". MSN. Archived from the original on August 1, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2024.

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