Iowa presidential election results 2020

Donald J. Trump carried Iowa by 8.20 points (138,611 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,690,871
IA result: R+8.2
Compared with the nation: 12.7 pts more Republican
Swing since 2016: 1.2 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	897,672	53.09%	6
Joseph R. Biden	Democratic	759,061	44.89%	—
Others	Others	34,138	2.02%	—
Total votes		1,690,871

Sources: ia-2020.pdf · 2020

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Iowa Secretary of State, General Election - 2020 Canvass Summary (369 pages); President and Vice President by county (from page 2), each county printed as Election Day / Absentee / Total rows
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All 9 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence, REP	REP	897,672	53.23%
Joseph R. Biden and Kamala D. Harris, DEM	DEM	759,061	45.01%
Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy Cohen, LIB	LIB	19,637	1.16%
Kanye West and Michelle Tidball	—	3,210	0.19%
Howie Hawkins and Angela Nicole Walker, GRN	GRN	3,075	0.18%
Don Blankenship and William Alan Mohr, CON	CON	1,707	0.10%
Roque Rocky De La Fuente and Darcy G. Richardson, ALL	ALL	1,082	0.06%
Ricki Sue King and Dayna R. Chandler, GKH	GKH	546	0.03%
Brock Pierce and Karla Ballard	—	544	0.03%
Write-in / scattering		4,337
Over-votes		2,645
Under-votes		6,614
Total as printed		1,700,130

Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Donald J. Trump	Joseph R. Biden	Roque Rocky De La Fuente and Darcy G. Richardson	Don Blankenship and William Alan Mohr	Ricki Sue King and Dayna R. Chandler	Howie Hawkins and Angela Nicole Walker	Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy Cohen	Brock Pierce and Karla Ballard	Kanye West and Michelle Tidball	Total	Margin
Adair	2,917	1,198	6	4	0	4	35	1	7	4,205	41.2
Adams	1,530	590	2	3	0	1	27	0	2	2,174	43.6
Allamakee	4,735	2,576	4	12	1	4	71	5	5	7,479	29.1
Appanoose	4,512	1,891	2	5	5	9	72	4	6	6,553	40.3
Audubon	2,295	1,071	1	5	0	7	32	3	2	3,455	35.8
Benton	9,188	5,160	13	21	3	29	186	3	19	14,736	27.5
Black Hawk	29,640	35,647	54	67	20	103	722	21	146	66,970	9.0
Boone	8,695	6,303	15	19	7	24	198	11	34	15,423	15.6
Bremer	8,294	5,958	8	19	4	24	185	4	20	14,627	16.1
Buchanan	6,420	4,169	14	19	4	20	96	0	22	10,879	20.9
Buena Vista	5,056	2,961	15	15	3	10	66	3	20	8,266	25.7
Butler	5,542	2,424	4	8	3	14	68	8	13	8,136	38.6
Calhoun	3,689	1,470	5	8	3	3	59	2	10	5,286	42.3
Carroll	7,737	3,454	9	8	2	13	68	0	15	11,421	37.9
Cass	4,969	2,201	3	10	1	8	61	1	12	7,340	38.1
Cedar	6,161	4,337	6	14	3	22	124	1	12	10,762	17.1
Cerro Gordo	12,442	10,941	36	25	5	42	196	9	48	23,927	6.3
Cherokee	4,495	1,936	6	6	0	3	48	1	8	6,542	39.4
Chickasaw	4,308	2,233	6	6	4	10	47	1	2	6,676	31.4
Clarke	3,144	1,466	1	3	1	3	34	1	8	4,698	36.0
Clay	6,137	2,662	5	11	2	8	101	3	19	9,013	38.8
Clayton	6,106	3,340	5	10	5	18	82	1	14	9,638	28.9
Clinton	13,361	10,812	6	36	9	47	314	6	47	24,811	10.3
Crawford	4,854	2,220	2	6	4	8	42	1	9	7,224	36.9
Dallas	27,987	26,879	38	27	19	57	744	9	87	56,268	2.0
Davis	3,032	1,013	2	4	4	5	30	1	8	4,133	49.3
Decatur	2,615	1,120	6	3	3	11	29	3	11	3,827	39.3
Delaware	6,666	3,157	7	17	7	15	87	8	17	10,068	35.2
Des Moines	10,592	8,893	14	16	8	52	275	12	44	20,082	8.5
Dickinson	7,438	3,661	7	8	8	8	92	2	6	11,306	33.6
Dubuque	27,214	25,657	30	58	13	125	556	14	115	54,185	2.9
Emmet	3,265	1,520	3	5	1	12	36	2	6	4,885	36.0
Fayette	6,145	3,835	10	16	5	27	102	1	16	10,249	22.7
Floyd	4,732	3,172	7	12	3	10	63	6	12	8,081	19.5
Franklin	3,422	1,626	8	6	3	5	45	1	3	5,178	35.1
Fremont	2,711	1,080	0	5	2	6	37	0	10	3,889	42.4
Greene	3,223	1,769	4	5	4	4	36	1	5	5,084	28.8
Grundy	4,929	2,206	0	7	2	12	87	10	7	7,313	37.5
Guthrie	4,272	1,985	1	6	0	7	79	1	12	6,400	35.9
Hamilton	4,956	2,843	7	6	5	7	71	11	11	7,980	26.7
Hancock	4,390	1,683	8	9	4	7	49	0	11	6,208	43.9
Hardin	5,850	2,976	5	10	3	11	105	3	12	9,029	32.0
Harrison	5,569	2,440	6	10	5	9	85	1	19	8,192	38.4
Henry	6,507	3,275	7	8	8	15	128	3	13	10,043	32.4
Howard	3,127	1,772	1	6	2	10	23	0	11	4,996	27.4
Humboldt	3,819	1,442	3	6	1	4	39	0	7	5,353	44.7
Ida	2,880	917	0	10	0	6	27	1	3	3,870	51.1
Iowa	6,009	3,547	9	11	1	15	102	3	19	9,808	25.3
Jackson	6,940	4,029	12	9	6	13	79	4	26	11,227	26.2
Jasper	12,084	7,737	11	29	7	30	207	7	31	20,289	21.6
Jefferson	4,443	4,319	5	7	1	32	95	4	20	9,009	1.4
Johnson	22,925	59,177	22	62	19	213	964	18	170	84,198	43.4
Jones	6,572	4,213	7	12	5	15	118	3	20	11,058	21.5
Keokuk	3,797	1,414	7	10	2	2	51	2	6	5,338	45.0
Kossuth	6,275	2,696	4	10	2	10	61	4	15	9,139	39.4
Lee	9,773	6,541	8	31	9	34	240	25	38	16,829	19.4
Linn	53,364	70,874	48	117	34	325	2,015	36	265	128,036	13.8
Louisa	3,500	1,726	3	5	3	5	67	5	12	5,372	33.3
Lucas	3,287	1,284	1	5	3	6	30	2	4	4,648	43.3
Lyon	5,707	1,067	1	4	0	6	56	0	11	6,924	67.7
Madison	6,507	3,134	7	6	2	12	124	5	9	9,853	34.4
Mahaska	8,297	2,894	8	10	2	13	134	4	19	11,458	47.5
Marion	12,663	6,178	10	24	6	24	233	5	30	19,331	33.8
Marshall	9,571	8,176	17	22	8	31	216	7	49	18,271	7.7
Mills	5,585	2,508	7	7	2	12	100	0	16	8,309	37.4
Mitchell	3,677	2,053	3	6	4	9	56	1	6	5,867	27.9
Monona	3,248	1,407	3	5	0	3	36	3	9	4,754	39.1
Monroe	2,975	1,078	2	0	1	3	21	0	5	4,119	46.4
Montgomery	3,659	1,583	3	9	1	6	50	2	7	5,360	39.0
Muscatine	10,823	9,372	8	21	9	57	293	9	37	20,807	7.0
O'Brien	5,861	1,569	6	7	4	6	77	2	9	7,590	56.9
Osceola	2,690	601	1	2	2	4	18	0	5	3,347	62.9
Page	5,319	2,086	8	7	0	10	76	1	12	7,573	43.0
Palo Alto	3,370	1,519	0	3	1	8	43	1	5	5,000	37.4
Plymouth	10,492	3,494	13	7	8	13	112	2	24	14,258	49.4
Pocahontas	2,826	933	0	8	1	2	37	4	6	3,848	49.6
Polk	106,800	146,250	213	200	79	487	3,322	78	562	260,033	15.3
Pottawattamie	26,247	18,575	10	56	14	93	552	11	81	45,942	16.8
Poweshiek	5,657	4,306	5	19	3	26	90	4	14	10,198	13.3
Ringgold	1,968	709	0	5	2	2	18	1	3	2,745	46.5
Sac	4,061	1,389	2	9	2	6	47	1	10	5,568	48.3
Scott	43,683	46,926	51	96	32	209	1,124	22	181	93,053	3.5
Shelby	4,697	1,959	3	12	6	7	83	5	9	6,829	40.4
Sioux	15,680	3,019	9	21	5	23	170	2	27	19,158	66.8
Story	20,340	29,175	36	51	10	147	924	21	133	51,253	17.4
Tama	5,303	3,577	2	12	3	19	87	2	21	9,098	19.1
Taylor	2,463	746	1	2	2	1	17	0	10	3,270	53.0
Union	4,010	2,061	6	6	4	10	61	2	11	6,211	31.6
Van Buren	2,859	875	2	5	2	6	23	1	7	3,804	52.5
Wapello	9,516	5,821	6	14	3	22	200	5	26	15,735	23.7
Warren	17,782	12,574	27	30	8	51	430	4	47	31,241	16.8
Washington	6,971	4,561	6	13	1	21	144	4	24	11,820	20.5
Wayne	2,338	727	2	5	1	3	20	1	6	3,132	51.9
Webster	10,938	6,613	10	9	5	26	128	5	56	17,957	24.3
Winnebago	3,707	2,135	3	6	2	8	72	3	15	6,014	26.4
Winneshiek	6,235	5,617	6	15	5	21	112	6	19	12,145	5.1
Woodbury	25,736	18,704	33	55	11	96	435	18	84	45,700	15.6
Worth	2,738	1,596	8	8	1	7	38	4	14	4,436	25.9
Wright	4,136	1,996	5	2	3	6	70	5	19	6,308	34.3

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.

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Only each county's Total row is kept.

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)

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Questions and answers

Who won Iowa in 2020?

Donald J. Trump won Iowa by 8.20 percentage points (138,611 votes).

How many electoral votes did Iowa have in 2020?

Iowa cast 6 electoral votes in 2020.

How many people voted for president in Iowa in 2020?

1,690,871 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Iowa in 2020?

Donald J. Trump 93, Joseph R. Biden 6 (out of 99 counties with results).

How did Iowa change from 2016 to 2020?

The margin moved 1.2 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 9.4 points to Republican by 8.2 points.

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