Vermont · 2020 presidential election
Vermont presidential election results 2020
Joseph R. Biden carried Vermont by 35.41 points (130,116 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 3
- Votes counted
- 367,428
- VT result
- D+35.4
- Compared with the nation
- 31.0 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2016
- 9.0 pts to D
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph R. Biden | Democratic | 242,820 | 66.09% | 3 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 112,704 | 30.67% | — | |
| Others | Others | 11,904 | 3.24% | — | |
| Total votes | 367,428 | ||||
Sources: vt-2020.pdf · 2020
County resultsMedia count
Download CSV| County | Joseph R. Biden | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addison County | 14,967 | 6,292 | 763 | 22,022 | 39.4 |
| Bennington County | 12,705 | 7,114 | 643 | 20,462 | 27.3 |
| Caledonia County | 9,011 | 6,551 | 607 | 16,169 | 15.2 |
| Chittenden County | 74,961 | 21,017 | 2,937 | 98,915 | 54.5 |
| Essex County | 1,405 | 1,773 | 110 | 3,288 | 11.2 |
| Franklin County | 13,611 | 11,274 | 945 | 25,830 | 9.0 |
| Grand Isle County | 2,905 | 1,810 | 136 | 4,851 | 22.6 |
| Lamoille County | 10,240 | 4,163 | 512 | 14,915 | 40.7 |
| Orange County | 10,304 | 6,187 | 631 | 17,122 | 24.0 |
| Orleans County | 7,147 | 6,512 | 437 | 14,096 | 4.5 |
| Rutland County | 18,230 | 14,672 | 1,068 | 33,970 | 10.5 |
| Washington County | 25,191 | 8,928 | 1,188 | 35,307 | 46.1 |
| Windham County | 18,767 | 6,440 | 828 | 26,035 | 47.3 |
| Windsor County | 23,376 | 9,971 | 1,099 | 34,446 | 38.9 |
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).
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 21 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph R. Biden And Kamala D. Harris* | — | 242,820 | 66.44% |
| Donald J. Trump And Michael R. Pence | — | 112,704 | 30.84% |
| Jo Jorgensen And Jeremy "Spike" Cohen | — | 3,608 | 0.99% |
| Howie Hawkins And Angela Walker | — | 1,310 | 0.36% |
| Kanye West And Michelle Tidball | — | 1,269 | 0.35% |
| H. Brooke Paige And Thomas James Witman | — | 1,175 | 0.32% |
| Christopher Lafontaine And Michael Speed | — | 856 | 0.23% |
| Richard Duncan And Mitch Bupp | — | 213 | 0.06% |
| Brian Carroll And Amar Patel | — | 209 | 0.06% |
| Don Blankenship And Bill Mohr | — | 208 | 0.06% |
| Alyson Kennedy And Malcolm Jarrett | — | 195 | 0.05% |
| Gloria Lariva And Sunil Freeman | — | 166 | 0.05% |
| Gary Swing And David Olszta | — | 141 | 0.04% |
| Phil Collins And Billy Joe Parker | — | 137 | 0.04% |
| Keith Mccormic And Sam Blasiak | — | 126 | 0.03% |
| Brock Pierce And Karla Ballard | — | 100 | 0.03% |
| Jerome Segal And John De Graaf | — | 65 | 0.02% |
| Blake Huber And Frank Atwood | — | 54 | 0.01% |
| Kyle Kenley Kopitke And Taja Yvonne Iwanow | — | 53 | 0.01% |
| Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente And Darcy G. Richardson | — | 48 | 0.01% |
| Zachary Scalf And Matthew Lyda | — | 29 | 0.01% |
| Write-in / scattering | 1,942 | ||
| Blank ballots | 3,262 | ||
| Over-votes | 278 | ||
| Total as printed | 370,968 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- Page 4 ('Statewide Totals') prints a county table for 9 of the 21 tickets and the following pages town-by-town tables per county; only the statewide list on page 1 is read here.
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)
Certificate of Ascertainment
The governor’s certificate naming Vermont’s electors was signed on the 4th day of December, 2020. Open the certificate (PDF, 3 pages)
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Questions and answers
Who won Vermont in 2020?
Joseph R. Biden won Vermont by 35.41 percentage points (130,116 votes).
How many electoral votes did Vermont have in 2020?
Vermont cast 3 electoral votes in 2020.
How many people voted for president in Vermont in 2020?
367,428 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Vermont in 2020?
Joseph R. Biden 13, Donald J. Trump 1 (out of 14 counties with results).
How did Vermont change from 2016 to 2020?
The margin moved 9.0 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 26.4 points to Democratic by 35.4 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data