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2020 United States presidential election in Wyoming
The 2020 United States presidential election in Wyoming was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated. Wyoming 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. Wyoming has three electoral votes in the Electoral College. Trump, the Republican nominee and incumbent president of the United States, won the state's three electoral votes.
Trump routed Biden in Wyoming, with his 69.94% vote share there making it his strongest win in the election. He won the sparsely populated state by a margin of 43.39%, down from his 46.29% four years earlier. Prior to the election, all news organizations declared Wyoming a safe red state, therefore justifying its status as one of the safest red states in the country, not being won by a Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide victory. Trump's 69.94% of the vote is the third-highest ever by a presidential candidate in Wyoming, only surpassed by Ronald Reagan's 70.51% during his 1984 landslide and by Trump's 71.60% in 2024.
Despite his loss, Biden scored a landslide win in Teton County, garnering a larger vote share in it than any nominee since 1984. He also narrowly flipped the bellwether of Albany County, anchored by the college town of Laramie, which had supported Obama in 2008 before returning to the Republican Party in 2012 and 2016, albeit by a narrow margin. Per exit polls by the Associated Press, Trump's strength in Wyoming came from white people, who comprised 89% of the electorate, and from voters prioritizing energy policy, with 62% believing the government should focus on expanding production of fossil fuels such as oil, gas, or coal.
The Democratic caucuses were originally scheduled for April 4, 2020. On March 22, due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wyoming Democratic Party canceled in-person voting in favor of mail-in voting. The deadline was also extended to April 17.
| Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 10,912 | 72.2% | 12 |
| Bernie Sanders (suspended) | 4,206 | 27.8% | 2 |
The Republican state party convention was held in May to officially select the final delegates to the national convention. Trump won all 29 delegates from Wyoming: 12 at the county conventions and 17 at the state convention.
| Source | Ranking | As of |
|---|---|---|
| The Cook Political Report | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| Inside Elections | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| Politico | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| RCP | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| Niskanen | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| CNN | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| The Economist | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| CBS News | Likely R | November 3, 2020 |
| 270towin | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| ABC News | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| NPR | Likely R | November 3, 2020 |
| NBC News | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| 538 | Safe R | November 3, 2020 |
| Source of pollaggregation | Dates updated | JoeBidenDemocratic | DonaldTrumpRepublican | Other/Undecided | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FiveThirtyEight | November 3, 2020 | 30.8% | 62.3% | 6.9% | Trump +31.5 |
Polls with a sample size of <100 have their sample size entries marked in red to indicate a lack of reliability.
| Poll source | Date(s)administered | Samplesize | Marginof error | DonaldTrumpRepublican | JoeBidenDemocratic | JoJorgensenLibertarian | Other | Undecided |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Oct 20 – Nov 2, 2020 | 367 (LV) | ± 7% | 66% | 33% | – | – | – |
| University of Wyoming | Oct 8–28, 2020 | 614 (LV) | ± 4% | 59% | 31% | 5% | – | – |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Oct 1–28, 2020 | 739 (LV) | – | 68% | 31% | – | – | – |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Sep 1–30, 2020 | 236 (LV) | – | 65% | 34% | – | – | 1% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Aug 1–31, 2020 | 211 (LV) | – | 74% | 25% | – | – | 1% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Jul 1–31, 2020 | 246 (LV) | – | 70% | 28% | – | – | 2% |
| SurveyMonkey/Axios | Jun 8–30, 2020 | 98 (LV) | – | 78% | 22% | – | – | 0% |
These slates of electors were nominated by each party in order to vote in the Electoral College should their candidate win the state:
| Donald Trump andMike PenceRepublican Party | Joe Biden andKamala HarrisDemocratic Party | Jo Jorgensen andSpike CohenLibertarian Party | Don Blankenship and William MohrConstitution Party | Brock Pierce and Karla BallardIndependent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marti HalversonDoug ChamberlainKarl Allred | Kelly TamblynAndrea CliffordMilward Simpson | Shawn JohnsonJared BaldesRichard Brubaker | Cindy HaggettMichael O'BrienNanette Hinck | Luke OnderkoJoann Dawn GrishamElizabeth Batton |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | 193,559 | 69.94% | +2.54% | |
| Democratic | 73,491 | 26.55% | +4.92% | |
| Libertarian | 5,768 | 2.08% | −3.05% | |
| Independent | 2,208 | 0.80% | N/A | |
| Write-in | 1,739 | 0.63% | −2.04% | |
| 276,765 | 100.00% | |||
| Republican win |
| County | Donald TrumpRepublican | Joe BidenDemocratic | Various candidatesOther parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany | 8,579 | 46.08% | 9,092 | 48.84% | 946 | 5.09% | -513 | -2.76% | 18,617 |
| Big Horn | 4,806 | 83.55% | 788 | 13.70% | 158 | 2.75% | 4,018 | 69.85% | 5,752 |
| Campbell | 16,975 | 86.76% | 1,935 | 9.89% | 656 | 3.35% | 15,040 | 76.87% | 19,566 |
| Carbon | 5,014 | 75.24% | 1,427 | 21.41% | 223 | 3.35% | 3,587 | 53.83% | 6,664 |
| Converse | 5,917 | 84.89% | 861 | 12.35% | 192 | 2.76% | 5,056 | 72.54% | 6,970 |
| Crook | 3,651 | 88.64% | 378 | 9.18% | 90 | 2.18% | 3,273 | 79.46% | 4,119 |
| Fremont | 12,007 | 66.30% | 5,519 | 30.47% | 585 | 3.23% | 6,488 | 35.83% | 18,111 |
| Goshen | 4,878 | 78.16% | 1,203 | 19.28% | 160 | 2.57% | 3,675 | 58.88% | 6,241 |
| Hot Springs | 1,999 | 77.57% | 482 | 18.70% | 96 | 3.73% | 1,517 | 58.87% | 2,577 |
| Johnson | 3,881 | 78.98% | 897 | 18.25% | 136 | 2.77% | 2,984 | 60.73% | 4,914 |
| Laramie | 27,891 | 62.00% | 15,217 | 33.83% | 1,874 | 4.16% | 12,674 | 28.17% | 44,982 |
| Lincoln | 8,643 | 82.57% | 1,509 | 14.42% | 316 | 3.03% | 7,134 | 68.15% | 10,468 |
| Natrona | 25,271 | 71.79% | 8,530 | 24.23% | 1,401 | 3.98% | 16,741 | 47.56% | 35,202 |
| Niobrara | 1,118 | 85.47% | 155 | 11.85% | 35 | 2.68% | 963 | 73.62% | 1,308 |
| Park | 12,813 | 76.65% | 3,410 | 20.40% | 494 | 2.96% | 9,403 | 56.25% | 16,717 |
| Platte | 3,898 | 79.18% | 890 | 18.08% | 135 | 2.75% | 3,008 | 61.10% | 4,923 |
| Sheridan | 11,843 | 72.09% | 4,043 | 24.61% | 542 | 3.29% | 7,800 | 47.48% | 16,428 |
| Sublette | 3,957 | 79.62% | 882 | 17.75% | 131 | 2.63% | 3,075 | 61.87% | 4,970 |
| Sweetwater | 12,229 | 73.66% | 3,823 | 23.03% | 551 | 3.32% | 8,406 | 50.63% | 16,603 |
| Teton | 4,341 | 29.58% | 9,848 | 67.10% | 488 | 3.33% | -5,507 | -37.52% | 14,677 |
| Uinta | 7,496 | 79.73% | 1,591 | 16.92% | 315 | 3.35% | 5,905 | 62.81% | 9,402 |
| Washakie | 3,245 | 80.88% | 651 | 16.23% | 116 | 2.89% | 2,594 | 64.65% | 4,012 |
| Weston | 3,107 | 87.72% | 360 | 10.16% | 75 | 2.11% | 2,747 | 77.56% | 3,542 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
- Albany (largest municipality: Laramie)
Due to the state's low population, only one congressional district is allocated. This district is called the at-large district, because it covers the entire state, and thus is equivalent to the statewide election results.
| District | Trump | Biden | Representative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 69.94% | 26.55% | Liz Cheney |
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