The 2020 Election Results

A total of 137,125,484 Americans voted in the November 3, 2020, presidential election, giving President Holland the highest share of the popular vote ever recorded within the United States.

Sharing Holland's ticket, Democratic candidates triumphed in 9 of the 12 gubernatorial races, 18 of the 31 Senate contests, and 313 of the 435 elections for seats in the U.S. House. This section provides a more detailed analysis of the information provided at this article, United States presidential election, 2020 (Holland Version), including the official results of each race and the comparative strengths of the various candidates within each state and district.

National presidential vote
This was the total vote breakdown for the presidential election, held in all fifty states and the District of Columbia:

President Holland's total of 90,571,382 votes far exceeds the previous record of 57,357,135 votes received by President Bill Clinton in 1996. His percentage of the total popular vote-66.1 percent-was the largest any candidate received since the popular vote first came into widespread use in 1824. (He exceeded Lyndon Johnson, with 61.1 percent (1964), Franklin D. Roosevelt with 60.8 percent (1936), Richard Nixon with 60.7 percent (1972), Warren G. Harding with 60.3 percent (1920), and Clinton, with 60.2 percent (1996), in terms of the popular vote). Holland's percentage of the two-party popular vote also set a record. He received 66.3 percent of the two-party popular vote, compared to 65.2 percent for Calvin Coolidge in 1924, 63.9 percent for Harding in 1920, and 62.5 percent for Roosevelt in 1936.

Holland's popular vote margin over Dickenson-46,069,352 votes-is an all-time record, easily exceeding the 21,437,467 margin by which Clinton defeated Bob Dole in 1996, and the 17,995,488 plurality of Richard Nixon over George McGovern in 1972. The 2020 results contrasted vividly with those of the 2016 election, when Holland defeated the Republican ticket of Romney and Ryan by a narrow 4,982,291 popular vote margin. The 2020 Holland-Holtzman ticket received 24,655,587 more votes than in 2016.

Holland set another record by carrying nineteen states by more than a million votes: California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. In ten states and the District of Columbia, Holland defeated Dickenson by a margin of forty percentage points or more: D.C. (92.5 percent), Hawaii (80.9 percent), Vermont (78.2 percent), California (76.7 percent), Maryland (73.7 percent), New York (73.1 percent), Massachusetts (72.4 percent), Rhode Island (70.6 percent), Illinois (70.5 percent), Texas (69.5 percent), and Colorado (68.6 percent). Holland's narrowest margin was in Wyoming, where he won by 4,708 votes (50.9 percent). In all, Holland was victorious in 49 states and the District of Columbia, winning 531 of the 538 electoral votes.

Dickenson, on the other hand, won only one state and one congressional district with 7 electoral votes. His total popular vote, 44,502,030, was 16,431,474 less than the vote of 60,933,504 which Romney received in 2012. Dickenson won 32.5 percent of the total vote and 32.7 percent of the two-party vote. His biggest victory was in Nebraska's 3rd congressional district, where he won 51.1 percent of the vote. His narrowest victory was his only state win, his home state of Mississippi, where he edged Holland by 22,110 votes (50.5 percent).

Total Vote
The total Presidential vote of 137,125,484 was the largest in American history. The previous record was set in 2012, when 129,085,410 Americans voted for President. The percentage of eligible (voting age) persons voting in 2020 also increased slightly. In 2016, 58.1 percent of the 222,000,000 eligible voters voted for President; in 2020, 58.2 percent of the 235,248,000 eligible voters.

Presidential Vote by District
A measure of Dickenson's sweeping defeat was reflected in the fact that he won a majority of the vote in only 13 of the 435 congressional districts in the country. Holland, on the other hand, was victorious in 422 districts. The breakdowns:



The lone non-southern district carried by Dickenson was NE-03, Nebraska's largest congressional district by territorial size, encompassing the western half of the state. The Southern districts he carried were two in Oklahoma (OK-01 and OK-03), two in Louisiana (LA-01 and LA-03), two in Mississippi (MS-03 and MS-04), two in Alabama (AL-01 and AL-06), two in Tennessee (TN-02 and TN-03), one in Kentucky (KY-05), and one in South Carolina (SC-02).

In contrast to recent presidential elections, in which the Republican presidential candidate had consistently run ahead of their party's candidate for House seats, Dickenson won a greater percentage than the Republican House candidate in only (cont.)