Delaware · 2020 presidential election
Delaware presidential election results 2020
Joseph R. Biden carried Delaware by 18.98 points (95,665 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 3
- Votes counted
- 504,010
- DE result
- D+19.0
- Compared with the nation
- 14.5 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2016
- 7.6 pts to D
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph R. Biden | Democratic | 296,268 | 58.78% | 3 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 200,603 | 39.80% | — | |
| Others | Others | 7,139 | 1.42% | — | |
| Total votes | 504,010 | ||||
Sources: de-2020.pdf · 2020
Certified state documentCertified
Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).
All 4 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. AND KAMALA D. HARRIS | — | 296,268 | 58.78% |
| DONALD J. TRUMP AND MICHAEL R. PENCE | — | 200,603 | 39.80% |
| JO JORGENSEN AND JEREMY "SPIKE" COHEN | — | 5,000 | 0.99% |
| HOWIE HAWKINS AND ANGELA NICOLE WALKER | — | 2,139 | 0.42% |
Notes on how this document was read
- Ticket names wrap over several lines; the label is the full ticket as printed (joined by eye). The numbers on each row are New Castle, Kent, Sussex, State (= votes) and Percentage (kept under other_numbers / pct).
Method: page image read by Apple Vision (lines), Tesseract (words) and RapidOCR (lines); a number is kept when two engines read the same digits in the same place
County resultsMedia count
Download CSV| County | Joseph R. Biden | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent County | 44,552 | 41,009 | 1,464 | 87,025 | 4.1 |
| New Castle County | 195,034 | 88,364 | 4,235 | 287,633 | 37.1 |
| Sussex County | 56,682 | 71,230 | 1,440 | 129,352 | 11.2 |
Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.
Notes on how this document was read
- Secondary source: County results compiled by Tony McGovern from news-media election-night tallies (Fox News, Politico, The New York Times); not a certified state document.
Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).
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Questions and answers
Who won Delaware in 2020?
Joseph R. Biden won Delaware by 18.98 percentage points (95,665 votes).
How many electoral votes did Delaware have in 2020?
Delaware cast 3 electoral votes in 2020.
How many people voted for president in Delaware in 2020?
504,010 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Delaware in 2020?
Joseph R. Biden 2, Donald J. Trump 1 (out of 3 counties with results).
How did Delaware change from 2016 to 2020?
The margin moved 7.6 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 11.4 points to Democratic by 19.0 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data