The 2020 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states and the

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participated.

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voters chose nine electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting

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and his

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, incumbent

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Mike Pence, against Democratic challenger and former

Joe Biden and his running mate,

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of California. Also on the ballot was the Libertarian nominee,

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lecturer

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and her running mate,

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and

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s were permitted without registration, and their results were not individually counted. Prior to the election, all 14 news organizations making predictions considered this a state Trump would win, or otherwise a safe

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. Trump won the state with 62.03% of the vote to Biden's 36.57%.

Primary elections

The primary elections were held on

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, March 3, 2020.

Republican primary

As one of the

states, little campaigning has been done here, and the focus had been on the highly competitive Republican senatorial primary, which was expected to boost turnout.

Democratic primary

Biden won the Alabama primary with 63.28% of the vote, winning 44 delegates. Bernie Sanders came in second place with 16.54% of the vote, getting 8 delegates. No other candidates won any delegates from Alabama.

General election

Predictions

Polling

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Fundraising

According to the

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, in 2019 and 2020,

and his interest groups raised $4,412,645.01, Joe Biden and his interest groups raised $2,412,420.93, and

raised $8,172.29 from

-based contributors.

Candidate ballot access

/ Mike Pence,

* Joe Biden /

, Democratic *

, Libertarian In addition,

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s were allowed without registration, and their votes were not counted individually.

Electoral slates

The voters of

cast their ballots for electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, rather than directly for the President and Vice President. Alabama is allocated 9 electors because it has 7

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and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 9 electors who pledge to vote for their candidate and their running mate. Whoever wins the most votes in the state is awarded all 9 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than their candidate is known as a

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. In the state of Alabama, a faithless elector's vote is counted and not penalized. The electors of each state and the

met on December 15, 2020, to cast their votes for president and vice president. All 9 pledged electors from Alabama cast their votes for

and

Mike Pence. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead, the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols. The electoral vote was tabulated and certified by Congress in a

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on January 6, 2021 per the

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. These electors were nominated by each party in order to vote in the Electoral College should their candidate win the state:

Results

Results by county

Results by congressional district

Trump won 6 of 7 congressional districts. Trump's 81.2% in Alabama's 4th district was his best showing of any congressional district in the nation.

Analysis

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state, Alabama has voted for the Republican candidate in every election since 1980 and has done so by double-digit margins in all of them except 1980, 1992, and 1996. Most analysts expected the state to be uncompetitive. Biden only won Jefferson County and 12 counties in the Black Belt; Trump won all other counties. This election coincided with the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Alabama, where incumbent Democrat Doug Jones – who was elected by a 21,924 vote margin in a 2017 special election – ran for a full six-year term but was defeated by Republican football coach

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. Despite losing, Jones outperformed Biden by 5.1 percentage points.

Exit polls

Edison

The following are estimates from exit polls conducted by the Edison Research for the National Election Pool (encompassing

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, CBS News,

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, and

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) interviewing 1,201 Alabama voters, adjusted to match the actual vote count.

Associated Press

The following are estimates from exit polls conducted by the

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for the

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interviewing 1,905 likely voters in Alabama, adjusted to match the actual vote count.

Notes

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References

External links

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

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