The 2020 United States Senate election in Wyoming was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the

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to represent the

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, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and

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to the

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and various state and local elections. Republican

Cynthia Lummis Cynthia Marie Lummis Wiederspahn ( ; born September 10, 1954) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Wyoming since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Lummis served as the U.S representative ...

defeated

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Merav Ben-David Merav Ben-David ( he, מירב בן-דוד; born 17 January 1959) is an Israeli-American ecologist, zoologist, and politician who is the Chair of the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming. She was the Democratic nomine ...

by more than 46 percentage points, becoming the first female U.S. Senator from Wyoming and succeeding incumbent Republican

Mike Enzi Michael Bradley Enzi ( ; February 1, 1944 – July 26, 2021) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party from 1997 to 2021. Prior to his tenure in the United States Senate ...

, who did not run for reelection. This was the first open Senate seat since

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where Enzi was first elected. The Democratic and Republican party primary elections were held on August 18, 2020.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

, former U.S. Representative for

Wyoming's at-large congressional district Wyoming's at-large congressional district is the sole congressional district for the US state of Wyoming. It is the third largest congressional district in the United States in terms of land size. The district is currently represented by Liz Che ...

and former Treasurer of Wyoming

Eliminated in primary

*Robert Short, Converse County commissioner and businessman *R. Mark Armstrong, geologist *Devon Cade, businessman *John Holtz, attorney and U.S. Air Force veteran *Michael Kemler *Bryan Miller, candidate for U.S. Senate in

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*Donna Rice, estate lawyer *Star Roselli, conspiracy theorist *Joshua Wheeler,

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veteran

Withdrawn

*Patrick Dotson, retiree *Rolland Holthus

Declined

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, incumbent U.S. Representative for

, Chair of

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, and daughter of the 46th

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( running for re-election) *

, incumbent U.S. Senator (endorsed Cynthia Lummis) *

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, businessman and former governor candidate * Robert Grady, policy adviser to former President

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Matt Mead Matthew Hansen Mead (born March 11, 1962) is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Wyoming from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the United States Attorney for the D ...

, former

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, mayor of

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(running for re-election) *

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, businessman and son of

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Endorsements

Polling

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

, Chair of the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the

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and wildlife ecologist

Eliminated in primary

*Kenneth R. Casner, Democratic candidate for the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election and Democratic nominee for District 47 of the

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in 2016 *James DeBrine, progressive activist *Yana Ludwig,

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activist and community organizer *Nathan Wendt, think tank executive, management consultant, businessman, entrepreneur *Rex Wilde, veteran, service technician, Democratic candidate for the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election and Democratic candidate for the

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Withdrawn

*Chuck Jagoda, teacher

Endorsements

Results

General election

Predictions

Endorsements

Polling

Results

Lummis outperformed fellow Republican

in the concurrent presidential election by 2.9%, or 4,541 votes. She also won Albany County by 1%, or 182 raw votes, while Trump lost it by 2.7%, or 513 votes. She performed significantly better in the Democratic stronghold of Teton County, receiving 37.3% of the total vote, compared to Trump's 29.6%. Lummis’s over-performance was likely in part due to the fact that there were no third-party candidates running in the Senate race, while the presidential race saw Libertarian

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winning 5,768 votes, or 2.1% of the vote, and independent candidate

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getting 2,208 votes, or 0.8%. Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic * Teton (largest municipality:

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)

Notes

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References

External links

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) * ;Official campaign websites
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Open seats in the 2020 United States Senate elections