The 2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the

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participated. 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

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, and running mate

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Mike Pence against

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nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator

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. The District of Columbia has three electoral votes in the Electoral College. Prior to the election, Biden was virtually certain to win D.C. The nation's capital is heavily 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 following the passage of the Twenty-third Amendment in 1961. Biden's 86.75-point margin of victory was virtually identical to that secured by

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. Nevertheless, the District shifted very slightly to the right compared with the previous election, making Biden the first non-incumbent Democrat since

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to win D.C. by a smaller margin than in the previous cycle. Along with seven states, it was one of just eight electoral-vote areas where Trump improved on his 2016 margins.

Primary elections

The District of Columbia held primary elections on June 2, 2020.

Republican primary

ran unopposed in the Republican primary, and thus received all of the district's 19 delegates to the

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Democratic primary

General election

Final predictions

Polling

Graphical summary

Aggregate polls

Polls

Results

Notes

References

External links

* * * (Affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters) * * {{State results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election

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