Us Election Results Map 2016 Vs 2020

How the electoral map changed between 2016 and 2020 and what it means for the country by zachary b.

Us election results map 2016 vs 2020. Wolf daniel wolfe byron manley renée rigdon and curt merrill cnn published nov. The united states uses the electoral college a process where the people vote to choose their electors then a meeting of 538 electors takes place to vote for the presidential candidates and then congress counts the electoral votes. The darker the blue the more a county went for joe biden and the darker the red the more the county went for donald trump.

While overall the map doesn t look too dissimilar from 2016 the results in many ways couldn t be more different. 2020 senate vs presidential election results. See maps and real time presidential election results for the 2020 us election.

2016 choose year 2020 2016 2012 2008 2004 2000 1996 1992 1988 1984 1980 1976 1972 1968 1964 1960 1956 1952 1948 1944 1940 1936 1932 1928 1924 1920 1916 1912 1908 1904 1900 1896 1892 1888 1884 1880 1876 1872 1868 1864 1860 1856 1852 1848 1844 1840 1836 1832 1828 1824 choose office u s. Clinton won nearly 3 million more votes than he did and biden is on track to win nearly 6 million more votes than trump. Community this content is not subject to review by daily kos staff prior to publication friday december 11 2020 4 52 pm pst.

In both the 2016 and 2020 elections trump lost the popular vote. Presidential election results comparison how much has the map changed from when republican donald trump defeated democrat hillary clinton in 2016. An interesting thing to note is that this view is even more heavily dominated by the color red for the same reasons.

The ft 2020 results page displays us presidential senate and house races as called by the associated press we categorise states into expected categories based on pre election polls states where the difference in poll numbers between biden and trump is more than 10 percentage points are classified as states we expect to be solidly in favour of one candidate. You can see how it compares to the 2016 map here. This map looks at the 2020 and 2016 presidential election results county by county.

The map above shows the county level and vote share results of the 2020 us presidential election. Less densely populated counties tend to vote republican while higher density typically smaller counties tend to vote for democrats.