2020
Iowa in 2020
The 2020 contest saw Iowa line up behind Trump, delivering 6 electoral votes to the Republican ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Joe Biden (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Iowa among the states he did not carry.
It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Iowa backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 2016. The region divided — Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota joined Iowa for the Republican ticket, while Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois did not. Across the 47 presidential elections Iowa has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (32 times). The vote fell within the Modern Polarization — Close elections in a divided country.
In the national count, Joe Biden took 306 of the 538 electoral votes, against Donald Trump's 232. Joe Biden led the national popular vote with 51.31% of the ballots cast.
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