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    Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2020

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    This page serves as a hub for our election overviews and analysis articles covering the 2020 elections. It is organized by level of government. Some analysis articles that are relevant to multiple levels of government are listed in multiple sections.

    On this page, you will find links to:

    1. Analysis of elections to federal office, including the presidential election
    2. Analysis of elections to state office
    3. Analysis of local elections within our coverage scope
    4. Analysis of non-presidential primaries
    5. Analysis of Pivot Counties
    6. Our coverage of elections to specific offices
    7. Our state-specific election coverage
    8. Information on how elections are administered and how to vote

    Click here with questions about our existing analysis content or to suggest new topics for analysis.

    Federal politics[edit]

    All 435 U.S. House seats, 34 U.S. Senate seats, and the presidency were up for regular elections in the 2020 elections. At the time of the election, the president and a majority of members of the U.S. Senate were Republicans, while a majority of members of the U.S. House were Democrats.

    Election analysis[edit]

    Presidential election

    Congressional elections


    State politics[edit]

    In November 2020, regular elections were held for 86 of 99 state legislative chambers, plus 11 gubernatorial offices, nine lieutenant gubernatorial offices, 10 attorney general offices, and seven secretary of state offices.

    Election analysis[edit]

    All state elections

    Trifectas

    State executive elections

    State legislative elections

    State ballot measures


    Local elections[edit]

    In 2020, Ballotpedia covered elections for mayor, city council, and all other city officials in the 100 largest cities by population in the United States, as well as elections for county officials whose jurisdictions overlapped with those cities.

    Election analysis[edit]

    Municipal elections


    Pivot Counties[edit]

    Pivot Counties are the 206 counties nationwide that Ballotpedia identified as having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and Donald Trump (R) in the 2016 presidential election. These counties are sometimes referred to as swing counties by media and political observers.

    Ballotpedia defines Pivot Counties won by Trump in 2020 as Retained Pivot Counties and those won by Joe Biden (D) as Boomerang Pivot Counties.

    Trump won 181 Retained Pivot Counties across 32 states to Biden's 25 Boomerang Pivot Counties across 16 states.[1][2]

    Presidential election[edit]

    Congressional elections[edit]

    State legislative elections[edit]

    Analysis of Pivot Counties[edit]

    Election coverage by office[edit]


    Election coverage by state[edit]

    Click your state on the map below to navigate to relevant election information.
    See also: Elections by state and year.

    http://ballotpedia.org/STATE_elections,_2020

    Election resources[edit]


    1. ↑ This analysis does not include counties in Alaska and certain independent cities due to variations in vote total reporting.
    2. ↑ The raw data for this study was provided by Dave Leip of Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections in November 2020.
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