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2020 presidential election in Massachusetts

Joe Biden (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Massachusetts in 2020, 65.6% to 32.1%, a margin of 33.5 points and 1,215,000 votes.

Massachusetts voted 29.0 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2016, when Hillary Clinton won.

Democrats led in 14 of the 14 counties. The largest, Middlesex, cast 863,613 votes and went to the Democrat by 45.2 points. The closest was Nantucket, where 3,327 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Joe Biden won Democratic 2,382,202 65.6%
Donald Trump Republican 1,167,202 32.1%
All other candidates 81,998 2.3%
Total3,631,402

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Middlesex 617,223 71.5% 226,964 26.3% 19,426 863,613 D+45.2
Worcester 248,768 57.6% 171,682 39.7% 11,558 432,008 D+17.8
Essex 267,196 63.4% 144,837 34.4% 9,175 421,208 D+29.0
Norfolk 273,443 67.0% 125,303 30.7% 9,148 407,894 D+36.3
Suffolk 270,358 80.6% 58,588 17.5% 6,324 335,270 D+63.2
Plymouth 173,638 57.5% 121,232 40.2% 6,959 301,829 D+17.4
Bristol 153,377 54.9% 119,872 42.9% 6,029 279,278 D+12.0
Hampden 125,951 57.7% 87,319 40.0% 4,911 218,181 D+17.7
Barnstable 91,995 61.2% 55,312 36.8% 3,020 150,327 D+24.4
Hampshire 63,360 72.1% 22,281 25.4% 2,211 87,852 D+46.8
Berkshire 51,705 72.4% 18,064 25.3% 1,606 71,375 D+47.1
Franklin 30,033 70.7% 11,203 26.4% 1,227 42,463 D+44.3
Dukes 9,914 77.5% 2,631 20.6% 253 12,798 D+56.9
Nantucket 5,241 71.7% 1,914 26.2% 151 7,306 D+45.5

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Massachusetts in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+25.2
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+33.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+27.2
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.8
2004 John Kerry (D) D+25.2
2000 Al Gore (D) D+27.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+33.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.5
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+7.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.8
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+0.2
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+15.7
1972 George McGovern (D) D+9.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+30.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+52.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+20.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+18.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+11.5
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.7
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.0
1928 Al Smith (D) D+1.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+37.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+40.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+24.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+19.7
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.1
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.6
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+9.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+8.0
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+18.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+16.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+38.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+39.5