# 2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia

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The District of Columbia participated in the 2020 United States presidential election with the other 50 states on Tuesday, November 3. District of Columbia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. The District of Columbia has three electoral votes in the Electoral College. Prior to the election, Biden was considered to be all but certain to win D.C.
The nation's capital is overwhelmingly Democratic and has voted for the Democratic nominee by massive margins in every presidential election it has participated in, ever since it was first granted electors by the passage of the Twenty-third Amendment in 1961. Biden's 86.75-point margin of victory was virtually identical to that secured by Hillary Clinton in 2016. Nevertheless, the District shifted by 0.02% to the right compared with the previous election, likely due to a decline in third-party voting, making Biden the first non-incumbent Democrat since 1988 to win D.C. by a smaller margin than in the previous cycle. Along with six states, it was one of seven jurisdictions where Trump improved on his 2016 margins.

## Primary elections

The District of Columbia held primary elections on June 2, 2020.

### Republican primary

Donald Trump ran unopposed in the Republican primary, and thus received all of the district's 19 delegates to the 2020 Republican National Convention.

### Democratic primary

2020 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary :
| Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates |
| Joe Biden | 84,093 | 75.97 | 19 |
| Elizabeth Warren (withdrawn) | 14,228 | 12.85 | 1 |
| Bernie Sanders (withdrawn) | 11,116 | 10.04 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard (withdrawn) | 442 | 0.40 | |
| Write-in votes | 809 | 0.73 | |
| Total | 110,688 | 100% | 20 |

## General election
### Final predictions

| Source | Ranking |
| The Cook Political Report | Solid D |
| Inside Elections | Solid D |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball | Safe D |
| Politico | Solid D |
| RCP | Solid D |
| Niskanen | Safe D |
| CNN | Solid D |
| The Economist | Safe D |
| CBS News | Likely D |
| 270towin | Safe D |
| ABC News | Solid D |
| NPR | Likely D |
| NBC News | Solid D |
| 538 | Solid D |

### Polling
#### Aggregate polls

| Source of poll aggregation | Dates administered | Dates updated | Joe Biden Democratic | Donald Trump Republican | Other/ Undecided | Margin |
| FiveThirtyEight | until November 2, 2020 | November 3, 2020 | 90.8% | 5.8% | 3.4% | Biden +85.0 |

#### Polls

| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Donald Trump Republican | Joe Biden Democratic | Jo Jorgensen Libertarian | Howie Hawkins Green | Other | Undecided |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Oct 20 – Nov 2, 2020 | 495 (LV) | ± 6% | 5% | 94% | – | – | – | – |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Oct 1–28, 2020 | 969 (LV) | – | 9% | 89% | – | – | – | – |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Sep 1–30, 2020 | 343 (LV) | – | 12% | 86% | – | – | – | 2% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Aug 1–31, 2020 | 252 (LV) | – | 16% | 83% | – | – | – | 2% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Jul 1–31, 2020 | 290 (LV) | – | 8% | 91% | – | – | – | 1% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Jun 8–30, 2020 | 151 (LV) | – | 11% | 87% | – | – | – | 3% |

### Results

2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Democratic | Joe Biden Kamala Harris | 317,323 | 92.15 | +1.29 |
| | Republican | Donald Trump Mike Pence | 18,586 | 5.40 | +1.31 |
| | Write-in | Write-in | 3,137 | 0.91 | –1.19 |
| | Libertarian | Jo Jorgensen Spike Cohen | 2,036 | 0.59 | –0.99 |
| | Green | Howie Hawkins Angela Walker | 1,726 | 0.50 | –0.87 |
| | Independent | Gloria La Riva Sunil Freeman | 855 | 0.25 | +0.25 |
| | Independent | Brock Pierce Karla Ballard | 693 | 0.20 | +0.20 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 344,356 | 100.00 | +1.60 |

#### Results by Ward

| Ward | Joe Biden Democratic | Joe Biden Democratic | Donald Trump Republican | Donald Trump Republican | Various Candidates Other Parties | Various Candidates Other Parties | Margin | Margin | Total Votes Cast |
| Ward | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | Total Votes Cast |
| Ward 1 | 39,041 | 93.67% | 1,725 | 4.14% | 915 | 2.19% | 37,316 | 89.53% | 41,681 |
| Ward 2 | 29,078 | 88.43% | 2,918 | 8.87% | 885 | 2.70% | 26,160 | 79.56% | 32,881 |
| Ward 3 | 39,397 | 89.07% | 3,705 | 8.38% | 1,129 | 2.55% | 35,692 | 80.69% | 44,231 |
| Ward 4 | 42,489 | 93.80% | 1,913 | 4.22% | 894 | 1.98% | 40,576 | 89.58% | 45,296 |
| Ward 5 | 43,320 | 93.96% | 1,769 | 3.84% | 1,018 | 2.20% | 41,551 | 90.12% | 46,107 |
| Ward 6 | 56,719 | 90.15% | 4,337 | 6.89% | 1,862 | 2.96% | 52,382 | 83.26% | 62,918 |
| Ward 7 | 36,382 | 94.78% | 1,134 | 2.95% | 868 | 2.27% | 35,248 | 91.83% | 38,384 |
| Ward 8 | 30,897 | 94.03% | 1,085 | 3.30% | 876 | 2.67% | 29,812 | 90.73% | 32,858 |
| Total | 317,323 | 92.15% | 18,586 | 5.40% | 8,447 | 2.45% | 298,737 | 86.75% | 344,356 |