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2020 presidential election in New Jersey

Joe Biden (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in New Jersey in 2020, 57.3% to 41.4%, a margin of 15.9 points and 725,087 votes.

New Jersey voted 11.5 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 21 counties and Republicans in 7. The largest, Bergen, cast 495,956 votes and went to the Democrat by 16.5 points. The closest was Gloucester, where 3,386 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 2,608,400 57.3%
Donald Trump Republican 1,883,313 41.4%
All other candidates 57,744 1.3%
Total4,549,457

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bergen 286,051 57.7% 204,440 41.2% 5,465 495,956 D+16.5
Monmouth 181,390 47.9% 192,007 50.7% 5,055 378,452 R+2.8
Middlesex 226,274 60.4% 143,483 38.3% 4,646 374,403 D+22.1
Essex 266,771 77.3% 75,474 21.9% 3,017 345,262 D+55.4
Ocean 119,325 35.0% 217,488 63.8% 4,316 341,129 R+28.8
Morris 153,898 51.4% 141,138 47.1% 4,307 299,343 D+4.3
Camden 175,046 66.2% 86,224 32.6% 3,344 264,614 D+33.6
Burlington 154,630 59.1% 103,365 39.5% 3,557 261,552 D+19.6
Union 170,253 67.3% 80,007 31.6% 2,744 253,004 D+35.7
Hudson 181,482 72.6% 65,697 26.3% 2,699 249,878 D+46.3
Passaic 129,032 57.7% 92,003 41.1% 2,601 223,636 D+16.6
Somerset 111,134 59.8% 71,970 38.7% 2,689 185,793 D+21.1
Mercer 122,494 69.4% 51,613 29.2% 2,430 176,537 D+40.2
Gloucester 86,710 50.2% 83,324 48.3% 2,611 172,645 D+2.0
Atlantic 73,840 52.7% 64,492 46.0% 1,787 140,119 D+6.7
Sussex 34,480 39.2% 51,694 58.8% 1,781 87,955 R+19.6
Hunterdon 39,463 46.8% 43,158 51.2% 1,632 84,253 R+4.4
Cumberland 32,732 52.5% 28,947 46.4% 714 62,393 D+6.1
Warren 24,896 41.0% 34,761 57.2% 1,117 60,774 R+16.2
Cape May 23,934 41.5% 33,149 57.5% 614 57,697 R+16.0
Salem 14,500 42.7% 18,842 55.5% 616 33,958 R+12.8

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

New Jersey in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+5.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+15.9
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+14.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.8
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+15.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+6.7
2000 Al Gore (D) D+15.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+17.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+13.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+20.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+13.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+2.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+24.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+2.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+31.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+0.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+30.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.0
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.9
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.2
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+11.7
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+17.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+18.6
1900 William McKinley (R) R+14.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+23.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+4.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.7
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.8
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+5.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+9.0
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.8