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The table below is a list of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin. It is sorted to display elections by their presidential term/year of election, name, margin by percentage in popular vote, popular vote, margin in popular vote by number, and the runner up in the Electoral College.
Howie Hawkins became the presumptive nominee of the Green Party on June 21, 2020, and was officially nominated by the party on July 11, 2020. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] Hawkins secured ballot access in 29 states and the District of Columbia, representing 381 electoral votes, and write-in access in 16 more states, representing 130 electoral votes.
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Biden's margin of victory was also less than Al Gore's 4.2% margin of victory in 2000 and John Kerry's 2.5% margin of victory in 2004. As for Trump, he easily set the record for total number of votes for a Republican candidate in Pennsylvania history (as with Biden, largely due to record-breaking turnout).
New York continued its streak as a solidly blue state, with Biden winning 60.87% of the vote to Trump's 37.74%, a Democratic victory margin of 23.13%. Due to a decrease in third-party voting, both candidates increased their party's vote share from 2016 , though Biden's margin of victory was slightly wider than Hillary Clinton 's.
Former President Donald Trump won another term in office after securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory, ... narrowing the winning Democratic margin from 2020 margin by 7 points.
The 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, ... Referring to Biden's 11,779-vote victory margin, Trump instructed ...
In Kent County in western Michigan, Harris also fell short of Biden’s 2020 margin of victory. With rounding, she won by 4 points, based on AP estimates compared with Biden’s 6-point win. In ...