Massachusetts · 2020 presidential election
Massachusetts presidential election results 2020
Joseph R. Biden carried Massachusetts by 33.46 points (1,215,000 votes), winning 11 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 11
- Votes counted
- 3,631,403
- MA result
- D+33.5
- Compared with the nation
- 29.0 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2016
- 6.3 pts to D
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph R. Biden | Democratic | 2,382,202 | 65.60% | 11 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 1,167,202 | 32.14% | — | |
| Others | Others | 81,999 | 2.26% | — | |
| Total votes | 3,631,403 | ||||
Sources: ma-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biden and Harris (Democratic) | Democratic | 2,382,202 | 65.90% |
| Trump and Pence (Republican) | Republican | 1,167,202 | 32.29% |
| Jorgensen and Cohen (Libertarian) | Libertarian | 47,013 | 1.30% |
| Hawkins and Walker (Green-Rainbow) | Green-Rainbow | 18,658 | 0.52% |
| Write-in / scattering | 16,328 | ||
| Blank ballots | 26,602 | ||
| Total as printed | 3,658,005 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- Leader dots between the ticket and the figure are kept out of the label; 'All others' is write_in, 'Blanks' blank_votes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnstable County | 91,994 | 55,311 | 3,020 | 150,325 | 24.4 |
| Berkshire County | 51,705 | 18,064 | 1,606 | 71,375 | 47.1 |
| Bristol County | 153,377 | 119,872 | 6,030 | 279,279 | 12.0 |
| Dukes County | 9,914 | 2,631 | 253 | 12,798 | 56.9 |
| Essex County | 267,198 | 144,837 | 9,175 | 421,210 | 29.0 |
| Franklin County | 30,030 | 11,201 | 1,227 | 42,458 | 44.3 |
| Hampden County | 125,948 | 87,318 | 4,911 | 218,177 | 17.7 |
| Hampshire County | 63,362 | 22,281 | 2,211 | 87,854 | 46.8 |
| Middlesex County | 617,196 | 226,956 | 19,425 | 863,577 | 45.2 |
| Nantucket County | 5,241 | 1,914 | 151 | 7,306 | 45.5 |
| Norfolk County | 273,312 | 125,294 | 9,145 | 407,751 | 36.3 |
| Plymouth County | 173,630 | 121,227 | 6,959 | 301,816 | 17.4 |
| Suffolk County | 270,522 | 58,613 | 6,327 | 335,462 | 63.2 |
| Worcester County | 248,773 | 171,683 | 11,558 | 432,014 | 17.8 |
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).
Certificate of Ascertainment
The governor’s certificate naming Massachusetts’s electors was signed on the thirtieth day of November (date as read from the scan). Open the certificate (PDF, 2 pages)
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Questions and answers
Who won Massachusetts in 2020?
Joseph R. Biden won Massachusetts by 33.46 percentage points (1,215,000 votes).
How many electoral votes did Massachusetts have in 2020?
Massachusetts cast 11 electoral votes in 2020.
How many people voted for president in Massachusetts in 2020?
3,631,403 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Massachusetts in 2020?
Joseph R. Biden 14 (out of 14 counties with results).
How did Massachusetts change from 2016 to 2020?
The margin moved 6.3 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 27.2 points to Democratic by 33.5 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data