2020 United States presidential election in West Virginia
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The 2020 United States presidential election in West Virginia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. West Virginia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. West Virginia had five electoral votes in the Electoral College. Trump easily carried West Virginia on Election Day by 38 points, although this marked a decrease from his 42 victory in 2016, thereby making this the first time the state shifted to the left from the previous presidential election since 1996. Prior to the election, all 16 news organizations declared West Virginia a safe, or likely, red state. This was the first time ever that an incumbent Republican president carried the state while losing re–election. With 68 % of its vote, West Virginia would prove to be Trump's second-strongest state in 2020, only behind Wyoming. Overall, Trump earned the largest share of the vote won by any presidential candidate in the state until his subsequent performance in 2024, where he would win 69 % of the vote. Since West Virginia became a Republican stronghold in recent elections, Biden is only the third Democrat ever to win the presidency without carrying the state, after Barack Obama and Woodrow Wilson.