User:DukeOfDelTaco/sandbox/Results of the 2020 United States presidential election
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This workpage details the results of the 2020 United States presidential election, which was the 59th quadrennial presidential election in the United States, held on November 3, 2020. Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the former vice president from Delaware, defeated incumbent Republican nominee Donald Trump from Florida. It was the first election since 1992, the first in the 21st century, and the fifth in the past 100 years in which the incumbent president lost re-election to a second term. Both major candidates received more than 74 million votes, surpassing Barack Obama's record of 69.5 million votes from 2008. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election.
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Biden flipped five states that voted for Trump in 2016: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district. He was the first Democrat to win in Georgia since 1992 and in Arizona since 1996, and the first candidate to win nationally without Ohio since 1960 and without Florida since 1992. This election marked the first ever occurrence of back-to-back elections with the same electoral vote distribution between candidates (306-to-232), excluding faithless electors. Biden became the second former vice president, after Republican Richard Nixon in 1968, to be elected president without having succeeded to the office.