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Election 2020 Results

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2020 presidential election in Nevada

Joe Biden (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Nevada in 2020, 50.1% to 47.7%, a margin of 2.4 points and 33,596 votes.

Nevada voted 2.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

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

Republicans led in 15 of the 17 counties and Democrats in 2. The largest, Clark, cast 972,511 votes and went to the Democrat by 9.3 points. The closest was Esmeralda, where 326 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 703,486 50.1%
Donald Trump Republican 669,890 47.7%
All other candidates 32,000 2.3%
Total1,405,376

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Clark 521,852 53.7% 430,931 44.3% 19,728 972,511 D+9.3
Washoe 128,130 50.8% 116,764 46.3% 7,254 252,148 D+4.5
Douglas 11,571 33.9% 21,630 63.4% 925 34,126 R+29.5
Lyon 8,473 28.0% 20,913 69.2% 850 30,236 R+41.1
Carson City 12,734 42.8% 16,111 54.2% 891 29,736 R+11.4
Nye 7,288 28.7% 17,527 69.1% 562 25,377 R+40.3
Elko 4,557 20.7% 16,741 76.2% 669 21,967 R+55.5
Churchill 3,051 23.7% 9,372 72.7% 468 12,891 R+49.0
Humboldt 1,689 21.7% 5,876 75.6% 205 7,770 R+53.9
White Pine 859 19.7% 3,403 77.9% 107 4,369 R+58.2
Storey 901 31.3% 1,907 66.3% 67 2,875 R+35.0
Lander 496 17.9% 2,198 79.5% 71 2,765 R+61.6
Lincoln 330 13.5% 2,067 84.5% 49 2,446 R+71.0
Mineral 829 35.5% 1,423 60.9% 84 2,336 R+25.4
Pershing 547 23.6% 1,732 74.6% 42 2,321 R+51.1
Eureka 105 10.3% 895 88.0% 17 1,017 R+77.7
Esmeralda 74 15.2% 400 82.0% 14 488 R+66.8

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

Nevada in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+3.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+2.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+2.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+6.7
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+12.5
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+2.6
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.6
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+33.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+35.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.4
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+17.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+15.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.9
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+3.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+45.6
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+38.8
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+13.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+19.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.7
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+17.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+23.8
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+23.8
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+24.5
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+62.3
1892 Third party (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+15.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.5
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+4.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+5.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+14.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.8