2020 United States presidential election (Our Democracy timeline)

The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Incumbent Democratic president Russ Feingold and vice president Julián Castro easily defeated the Republican ticket of Florida governor Adam Putnam and outgoing Indiana senator and former governor Mike Pence. The election took place against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic and related recession. Feingold's re-election win had the largest margin of victory in terms of popular vote of any U.S. presidential election since Ronald Reagan's 1984 re-election. This was the last presidential election held before the adoption of the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 2022.

Close states
States where the margin of victory was under 1% (57 electoral votes; 57 won by Feingold, 0 by Putnam):


 * 1)  Texas, 0.29% – 38 electoral votes 
 * 2)  Ohio, 0.58% – 16 electoral votes 
 * 3)  Maine's 2nd Congressional District, 0.73% – 1 electoral vote 

States where the margin of victory was under 5% (80 electoral votes; 71 won by Feingold, 9 by Putnam):


 * 1)  Florida, 1.34% – 29 electoral votes 
 * 2)  North Carolina, 1.98% – 15 electoral votes 
 * 3)  Iowa, 2.13% – 6 electoral votes 
 * 4)  Arizona, 3.78% – 11 electoral votes 
 * 5)  Georgia, 4.53% – 16 electoral votes 
 * 6)  Alaska, 4.86% – 3 electoral votes 

States where the margin of victory was under 10% (93 electoral votes; 53 won by Feingold, 40 by Putnam):


 * 1)  Nevada, 7.36% – 6 electoral votes 
 * 2)  Kansas, 8.64% – 6 electoral votes 
 * 3)  Nebraska's 1st Congressional District, 8.83% – 1 electoral vote 
 * 4)  Indiana, 9.04% – 11 electoral votes 
 * 5)  Montana, 9.17% – 3 electoral votes 
 * 6)  Wisconsin, 9.21% – 16 electoral votes  (tipping-point state)
 * 7)  Pennsylvania, 9.30% – 20 electoral votes 
 * 8)  Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, 9.46% – 1 electoral vote 
 * 9)  Missouri, 9.52% – 10 electoral votes 
 * 10)  South Carolina, 9.67% – 9 electoral votes 
 * 11)  Michigan, 9.98% – 16 electoral votes 

Concurrent Elections
The 2020 presidential election was held in conjunction with elections for an array of local, state, and federal positions and ballot measures. This included the Class II U.S. Senate seats as well as the House of Representatives.

Senate results
Despite holding the U.S. Senate in a 52-48 split in the first two years of the Feingold presidency, the Democratic party lost the chamber in the 2018 midterm elections, after the Republican party flipped Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, and West Virginia. Thus, entering into the 2020 U.S. Senate elections, the Republican party held the chamber with a 55-45 split.

The U.S. senate seat changes from the 2020 election resulted in the 117th Congress having 51 Democratic senators, 3 independent senators caucusing with the Democratic Party, and 47 Republican Senators, a 54-46 split in favor of the Democratic caucus.

House results
The U.S. House of Representative elections resulted in a 242D-193R House in the 117th Congress.