Nevada · 2020 presidential election
Nevada presidential election results 2020
Joseph R. Biden carried Nevada by 2.39 points (33,596 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 6
- Votes counted
- 1,405,376
- NV result
- D+2.4
- Compared with the nation
- 2.1 pts more Republican
- Swing since 2016
- None
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph R. Biden | Democratic | 703,486 | 50.06% | 6 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 669,890 | 47.67% | — | |
| Others | Others | 32,000 | 2.28% | — | |
| Total votes | 1,405,376 | ||||
Sources: nv-2020.pdf · 2020
County resultsCertified
Download CSVAll 5 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biden, Joseph R. (DEM) | DEM | 703,486 | 50.06% |
| Trump, Donald J. (Incumbent) (REP) | REP | 669,890 | 47.67% |
| Jorgensen, Jo (LPN) | LPN | 14,783 | 1.05% |
| None of These Candidates (NP) | NP | 14,079 | 1.00% |
| Blankenship, Don (IAP) | IAP | 3,138 | 0.22% |
| County | Joseph R. Biden | Donald J. Trump | Jorgensen, Jo | None of These Candidates | Blankenship, Don | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carson City | 12,735 | 16,113 | 432 | 355 | 104 | 29,739 | 11.4 |
| Churchill | 3,051 | 9,372 | 282 | 150 | 35 | 12,890 | 49.0 |
| Clark | 521,852 | 430,930 | 8,761 | 9,023 | 1,944 | 972,510 | 9.3 |
| Douglas | 11,571 | 21,630 | 407 | 449 | 68 | 34,125 | 29.5 |
| Elko | 4,557 | 16,741 | 375 | 227 | 67 | 21,967 | 55.5 |
| Esmeralda | 74 | 400 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 487 | 66.9 |
| Eureka | 105 | 895 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1,017 | 77.7 |
| Humboldt | 1,689 | 5,877 | 104 | 78 | 23 | 7,771 | 53.9 |
| Lander | 496 | 2,198 | 36 | 30 | 5 | 2,765 | 61.6 |
| Lincoln | 330 | 2,067 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 2,446 | 71.0 |
| Lyon | 8,473 | 20,914 | 461 | 287 | 103 | 30,238 | 41.1 |
| Mineral | 829 | 1,423 | 35 | 38 | 10 | 2,335 | 25.4 |
| Nye | 7,288 | 17,528 | 243 | 226 | 93 | 25,378 | 40.3 |
| Pershing | 547 | 1,731 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 2,320 | 51.0 |
| Storey | 902 | 1,908 | 34 | 30 | 3 | 2,877 | 35.0 |
| Washoe | 128,128 | 116,760 | 3,526 | 3,085 | 643 | 252,142 | 4.5 |
| White Pine | 859 | 3,403 | 43 | 43 | 21 | 4,369 | 58.2 |
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
- Column headers spelled out from the page (names wrap in the text layer).
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 Nevada in 2020?
Joseph R. Biden won Nevada by 2.39 percentage points (33,596 votes).
How many electoral votes did Nevada have in 2020?
Nevada cast 6 electoral votes in 2020.
How many people voted for president in Nevada in 2020?
1,405,376 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Nevada in 2020?
Donald J. Trump 15, Joseph R. Biden 2 (out of 17 counties with results).
How did Nevada change from 2016 to 2020?
The margin moved 0.0 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 2.4 points to Democratic by 2.4 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data