The 2020 United States presidential election in Indiana was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the

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in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Indiana voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the

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's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President

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against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. Indiana has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Indiana was the home state of Pence, who served as Governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017. Pence retained a 59% approval among voters in his home state. On the day of the election, most news organizations considered Indiana a state Trump would win, or a likely red state. Trump won Indiana by 57% to Biden's 41%, a slight increase in his vote share from

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, but a reduction in his margin of victory. This election marked the first time since

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and only the third time since

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that

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, home to Terre Haute and a significant

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, voted for the losing candidate in a presidential election. Biden subsequently became the first presidential nominee of either party since Dwight D. Eisenhower in

, and the first Democrat since Grover Cleveland in

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, to win without carrying Vigo County. Biden also became the first Democrat since FDR in

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to win without carrying traditionally Democratic

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in Southern Indiana. Biden did flip Tippecanoe County, home to Lafayette, from Republican to Democratic, marking the first time since

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that the county voted against Indiana's statewide winner. Trump also became the first Republican since

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to carry exurban Madison County with more than 60% of the vote. Notably, Biden reduced the Republican margin in Hamilton County, a suburban county in the Indianapolis metropolitan area that is the state's fourth-most populous county. Hamilton County has never supported a candidate of the Democratic Party for president except for

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, when the split in the Republicans allowed Woodrow Wilson to carry the county with a 34.9% plurality. Hamilton broke 60%-38% for

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, when Barack Obama won Indiana.

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won Hamilton County 66%–32% in

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and Trump won it 56%-37% in 2016, nearly identical to his statewide margin. In this election, Trump narrowly won Hamilton County, 52%-45%, a margin that is to the left of the statewide result. Biden's 45% vote share in Hamilton County is higher than that of even Lyndon B. Johnson in his nationwide landslide in

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and higher than that of Franklin D. Roosevelt in

. Biden's vote share in Hamilton is only equaled by Roosevelt's 44.85% share in his

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landslide.

Primary elections

The primary elections were held on June 2, 2020.

Republican primary

Donald Trump won the Republican primary, and received all of the state's 58 delegates to the

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Democratic primary

Libertarian nominee

The

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was held on May 22–24, 2020, selecting Jo Jorgensen, Psychology Senior Lecturer at Clemson University, as their presidential nominee.

Green primary

The Green primary was held on May 1–31, 2020, with mail-in ballots being post marked no later than June 1, 2020, and results being published by June 14, 2020.

General election

Predictions

Polling

Graphical summary

Aggregate polls

Polls

Donald Trump vs. Elizabeth Warren

Results

Statewide results

Results by county

=Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

= * Tippecanoe (largest municipality: Lafayette)

Results by congressional district

Trump and Republican candidates won 7 of 9 congressional districts.

Notes

;Partisan clients

References

External links

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