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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
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participated.
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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 Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator
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. New Jersey has 14 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Biden carried New Jersey by 15.93%, making the state 11.48% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Per exit polls by the
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, Biden's victory came from a coalition of key Democratic constituencies, including 86% of
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, 76% of Asians, 72% of Hispanic and Latino Americans, and 50% of
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. Biden's strength with Asian Americans was evident in New Jersey, where Asians constituted 10.0% of the population in 2019. Biden flipped Gloucester County, which was reliably Democratic until Trump flipped it in
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. He also became the first Democrat since
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in
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to win Morris County, which
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won in the simultaneous senate election. This also became the first presidential election since
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in which
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did not vote for the national winner. Biden subsequently became the first Democrat since 1992 to win the White House without carrying
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. Trump carried 255 of New Jersey's 565 municipalities, fewer than the 307 he carried in 2016, with Biden carrying the other 310. 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.


Primary elections

The primary elections were originally scheduled for June 2, 2020. In April, they were moved to July 7 due to concerns over the
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. On May 15, 2020, Governor
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signed an executive order declaring the primary election to become a primarily vote-by-mail election. Democratic and Republican voters will automatically receive a vote-by-mail ballot while unaffiliated and inactive voters will get a vote-by-mail application. Unaffiliated voters must declare their party in the application and send in to their respective county board of elections in order to vote and receive their primary election ballot. A limited number of polling stations in each county will be available on primary day for those who prefer to vote in person (including with provisional ballots if they're unable to obtain one) and for voters with disabilities.


Republican primary

Incumbent President
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ran unopposed in the Republican primary. The state has 49 delegates to the
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.


Democratic primary


Green primary


General election


Predictions


Polling


Graphical summary


Aggregate polls

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Results


Results by county

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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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(largest municipality: Parsippany)


By congressional district

Biden won 9 out of the 12 congressional districts in New Jersey. Trump won 3, including one that elected a Democrat.


Analysis

As the polls predicted, Joe Biden won New Jersey by a wide margin. Biden ran up huge margins in the state's major cities such as Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Trenton, Atlantic City, Camden, and several others. In addition to carrying all the counties that Clinton won in 2016, Biden flipped Gloucester County, which was a reliably blue county before Trump won it in 2016. Biden also won Morris County, which had never voted Democratic in any presidential race since 1964; Senator Cory Booker concurrently won Morris County in his reelection victory as well. In neighboring Hunterdon County, Biden came within 4.4 points of victory despite the county being a reliably Republican stronghold as well. Biden recorded the highest share of the vote in Sussex and Hunterdon Counties for a Democrat since
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, the last time either county voted Democratic. Trump, meanwhile, performed strongly in
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received 12.8% of the vote in 2004. Other populated cities, such as Paterson and Camden, posted similarly notable shifts towards the GOP, with much of the rest of the state shifting towards the Democrats instead.


See also

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United States presidential elections in New Jersey Following is a table of United States presidential elections in New Jersey, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1787, New Jersey has participated in every U.S. presidential election. Winners of the state are in bold. The shading ...
* 2020 New Jersey elections * Bilingual elections requirement for New Jersey (per Voting Rights Act Amendments of 2006) * 2020 United States presidential election * 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries * 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries * 2020 United States elections


Notes


References


Further reading

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External links

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