Illinois · 2020 presidential election
Illinois presidential election results 2020
Joseph R. Biden carried Illinois by 16.99 points (1,025,024 votes), winning 20 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 20
- Votes counted
- 6,033,744
- IL result
- D+17.0
- Compared with the nation
- 12.5 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2016
- 0.1 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph R. Biden | Democratic | 3,471,915 | 57.54% | 20 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 2,446,891 | 40.55% | — | |
| Others | Others | 114,938 | 1.90% | — | |
| Total votes | 6,033,744 | ||||
Sources: il-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 34 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOSEPH R. BIDEN DEM | DEM | 3,471,915 | 57.54% |
| DONALD J. TRUMP REP | REP | 2,446,891 | 40.55% |
| JO JORGENSEN LIB | LIB | 66,544 | 1.10% |
| HOWIE HAWKINS GRN | GRN | 30,494 | 0.51% |
| BRIAN CARROLL ASP | ASP | 9,548 | 0.16% |
| GLORIA LA RIVA PSL | PSL | 8,046 | 0.13% |
| JOHN FARNEY | — | 84 | 0.00% |
| JADE SIMMONS | — | 78 | 0.00% |
| MARK CHARLES | — | 75 | 0.00% |
| KASEY WELLS | — | 18 | 0.00% |
| DON BLANKENSHIP | — | 18 | 0.00% |
| ANDY WILLIAMS JR. | — | 8 | 0.00% |
| BARBARA BELLAR | — | 7 | 0.00% |
| JOSEPH KISHORE | — | 5 | 0.00% |
| KEVIN McKEE | — | 4 | 0.00% |
| PHILL COLLINS | — | 3 | 0.00% |
| JAMES TIMOTHY STRUCK | — | 2 | 0.00% |
| DEBORAH ROUSE | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| JEREMY HIGGS | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| DENNIS ANDREW BALL | BALL | 1 | 0.00% |
| MARY RUTH CARO SIMMONS | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| KATHERINE FORBES | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| KATHRYN GIBSON | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| PRESIDENT R19 BODDIE | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| SHAWN HOWARD | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| TODD CELLA | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| CHRIS FRANKLIN | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| LOWELL MARTIN SEIDA | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| HOWIE HAWKINS | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| RANDALL FOLTYNIEWICZ | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| PRINCESS KHADIJAH MARYANN | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| MARCUS SYKES | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| BRYAN ROBINSON | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| DAVID JEFFREY NASH | NASH | 0 | 0.00% |
Notes on how this document was read
- Running mates printed in brackets are kept under trailing_text; W-I marks write-in candidates; '< .01%' is not a number.
Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)
County resultsMedia count
Download CSV| County | Joseph R. Biden | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams County | 8,633 | 24,220 | 674 | 33,527 | 46.5 |
| Alexander County | 1,114 | 1,486 | 25 | 2,625 | 14.2 |
| Bond County | 2,288 | 5,625 | 231 | 8,144 | 41.0 |
| Boone County | 10,542 | 13,883 | 554 | 24,979 | 13.4 |
| Brown County | 486 | 1,931 | 108 | 2,525 | 57.2 |
| Bureau County | 6,669 | 10,411 | 354 | 17,434 | 21.5 |
| Calhoun County | 677 | 2,046 | 50 | 2,773 | 49.4 |
| Carroll County | 2,748 | 5,105 | 171 | 8,024 | 29.4 |
| Cass County | 1,615 | 3,625 | 86 | 5,326 | 37.7 |
| Champaign County | 57,067 | 35,285 | 3,216 | 95,568 | 22.8 |
| Christian County | 4,335 | 11,563 | 306 | 16,204 | 44.6 |
| Clark County | 1,993 | 6,226 | 136 | 8,355 | 50.7 |
| Clay County | 1,129 | 5,629 | 141 | 6,899 | 65.2 |
| Clinton County | 4,493 | 14,304 | 417 | 19,214 | 51.1 |
| Coles County | 8,067 | 14,037 | 502 | 22,606 | 26.4 |
| Cook County | 1,725,973 | 558,269 | 37,157 | 2,321,399 | 50.3 |
| Crawford County | 2,202 | 7,043 | 196 | 9,441 | 51.3 |
| Cumberland County | 1,142 | 4,601 | 107 | 5,850 | 59.1 |
| De Witt County | 2,191 | 5,632 | 201 | 8,024 | 42.9 |
| DeKalb County | 24,643 | 21,905 | 1,441 | 47,989 | 5.7 |
| Douglas County | 2,335 | 6,227 | 198 | 8,760 | 44.4 |
| DuPage County | 281,222 | 193,611 | 10,231 | 485,064 | 18.1 |
| Edgar County | 1,887 | 6,193 | 116 | 8,196 | 52.5 |
| Edwards County | 488 | 2,833 | 47 | 3,368 | 69.6 |
| Effingham County | 3,716 | 15,006 | 361 | 19,083 | 59.2 |
| Fayette County | 1,826 | 8,055 | 195 | 10,076 | 61.8 |
| Ford County | 1,754 | 5,048 | 165 | 6,967 | 47.3 |
| Franklin County | 4,760 | 13,622 | 287 | 18,669 | 47.5 |
| Fulton County | 6,503 | 9,867 | 354 | 16,724 | 20.1 |
| Gallatin County | 622 | 2,019 | 34 | 2,675 | 52.2 |
| Greene County | 1,349 | 4,770 | 108 | 6,227 | 54.9 |
| Grundy County | 9,626 | 16,523 | 604 | 26,753 | 25.8 |
| Hamilton County | 824 | 3,432 | 67 | 4,323 | 60.3 |
| Hancock County | 2,315 | 6,906 | 162 | 9,383 | 48.9 |
| Hardin County | 449 | 1,691 | 22 | 2,162 | 57.4 |
| Henderson County | 1,187 | 2,394 | 75 | 3,656 | 33.0 |
| Henry County | 9,797 | 15,300 | 603 | 25,700 | 21.4 |
| Iroquois County | 2,908 | 10,877 | 259 | 14,044 | 56.7 |
| Jackson County | 11,181 | 10,890 | 645 | 22,716 | 1.3 |
| Jasper County | 1,007 | 4,494 | 85 | 5,586 | 62.4 |
| Jefferson County | 4,608 | 12,476 | 352 | 17,436 | 45.1 |
| Jersey County | 2,961 | 8,712 | 287 | 11,960 | 48.1 |
| Jo Daviess County | 5,109 | 7,166 | 220 | 12,495 | 16.5 |
| Johnson County | 1,281 | 5,059 | 110 | 6,450 | 58.6 |
| Kane County | 130,166 | 96,775 | 4,935 | 231,876 | 14.4 |
| Kankakee County | 20,271 | 28,532 | 1,236 | 50,039 | 16.5 |
| Kendall County | 33,168 | 29,492 | 1,545 | 64,205 | 5.7 |
| Knox County | 10,703 | 12,009 | 493 | 23,205 | 5.6 |
| LaSalle County | 22,442 | 30,113 | 1,128 | 53,683 | 14.3 |
| Lake County | 204,032 | 123,594 | 6,530 | 334,156 | 24.1 |
| Lawrence County | 1,419 | 4,886 | 117 | 6,422 | 54.0 |
| Lee County | 6,407 | 9,630 | 403 | 16,440 | 19.6 |
| Livingston County | 4,615 | 12,208 | 351 | 17,174 | 44.2 |
| Logan County | 3,840 | 9,136 | 318 | 13,294 | 39.8 |
| Macon County | 19,847 | 28,589 | 951 | 49,387 | 17.7 |
| Macoupin County | 7,365 | 16,153 | 552 | 24,070 | 36.5 |
| Madison County | 57,836 | 76,031 | 3,691 | 137,558 | 13.2 |
| Marion County | 4,524 | 12,678 | 290 | 17,492 | 46.6 |
| Marshall County | 2,005 | 4,197 | 143 | 6,345 | 34.5 |
| Mason County | 1,985 | 4,654 | 127 | 6,766 | 39.4 |
| Massac County | 1,725 | 4,997 | 96 | 6,818 | 48.0 |
| McDonough County | 4,992 | 7,027 | 266 | 12,285 | 16.6 |
| McHenry County | 78,154 | 82,260 | 4,164 | 164,578 | 2.5 |
| McLean County | 43,933 | 40,502 | 2,954 | 87,389 | 3.9 |
| Menard County | 2,022 | 4,764 | 168 | 6,954 | 39.4 |
| Mercer County | 3,280 | 5,418 | 216 | 8,914 | 24.0 |
| Monroe County | 6,569 | 14,142 | 495 | 21,206 | 35.7 |
| Montgomery County | 3,905 | 9,544 | 312 | 13,761 | 41.0 |
| Morgan County | 5,076 | 9,950 | 307 | 15,333 | 31.8 |
| Moultrie County | 1,662 | 4,964 | 118 | 6,744 | 49.0 |
| Ogle County | 9,428 | 16,248 | 664 | 26,340 | 25.9 |
| Peoria County | 43,578 | 38,252 | 2,143 | 83,973 | 6.3 |
| Perry County | 2,612 | 7,313 | 146 | 10,071 | 46.7 |
| Piatt County | 3,329 | 6,248 | 274 | 9,851 | 29.6 |
| Pike County | 1,484 | 6,332 | 149 | 7,965 | 60.9 |
| Pope County | 433 | 1,722 | 20 | 2,175 | 59.3 |
| Pulaski County | 891 | 1,699 | 41 | 2,631 | 30.7 |
| Putnam County | 1,338 | 1,993 | 59 | 3,390 | 19.3 |
| Randolph County | 3,592 | 11,076 | 242 | 14,910 | 50.2 |
| Richland County | 1,830 | 6,089 | 144 | 8,063 | 52.8 |
| Rock Island County | 36,691 | 28,603 | 1,523 | 66,817 | 12.1 |
| Saline County | 2,789 | 8,103 | 197 | 11,089 | 47.9 |
| Sangamon County | 48,917 | 53,485 | 2,349 | 104,751 | 4.4 |
| Schuyler County | 1,068 | 2,773 | 77 | 3,918 | 43.5 |
| Scott County | 572 | 2,114 | 55 | 2,741 | 56.3 |
| Shelby County | 2,504 | 9,426 | 167 | 12,097 | 57.2 |
| St. Clair County | 68,325 | 57,150 | 2,629 | 128,104 | 8.7 |
| Stark County | 815 | 2,004 | 67 | 2,886 | 41.2 |
| Stephenson County | 9,055 | 12,521 | 472 | 22,048 | 15.7 |
| Tazewell County | 24,819 | 42,513 | 1,719 | 69,051 | 25.6 |
| Union County | 2,579 | 6,161 | 164 | 8,904 | 40.2 |
| Vermilion County | 10,323 | 20,725 | 594 | 31,642 | 32.9 |
| Wabash County | 1,253 | 4,237 | 117 | 5,607 | 53.2 |
| Warren County | 3,090 | 4,676 | 158 | 7,924 | 20.0 |
| Washington County | 1,641 | 6,115 | 165 | 7,921 | 56.5 |
| Wayne County | 1,187 | 7,176 | 136 | 8,499 | 70.5 |
| White County | 1,517 | 5,791 | 123 | 7,431 | 57.5 |
| Whiteside County | 12,253 | 14,527 | 595 | 27,375 | 8.3 |
| Will County | 183,915 | 155,116 | 7,235 | 346,266 | 8.3 |
| Williamson County | 10,206 | 22,801 | 722 | 33,729 | 37.3 |
| Winnebago County | 64,056 | 60,861 | 2,793 | 127,710 | 2.5 |
| Woodford County | 6,160 | 14,799 | 539 | 21,498 | 40.2 |
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 Illinois in 2020?
Joseph R. Biden won Illinois by 16.99 percentage points (1,025,024 votes).
How many electoral votes did Illinois have in 2020?
Illinois cast 20 electoral votes in 2020.
How many people voted for president in Illinois in 2020?
6,033,744 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Illinois in 2020?
Donald J. Trump 88, Joseph R. Biden 14 (out of 102 counties with results).
How did Illinois change from 2016 to 2020?
The margin moved 0.1 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 17.1 points to Democratic by 17.0 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data