Electoral_history_of_Joe_Biden

Electoral history of Joe Biden

Overview of Joe Biden's electoral history

The electoral history of Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the United States, began in 1970.^[1] Biden served as the 47th vice president (2009–2017), and as a United States senator from Delaware (1973–2009). Biden is the oldest elected and serving president, the second Catholic president, after John F. Kennedy, and the first president from Delaware.

A member of the Democratic Party, Biden was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970, and became the seventh-youngest senator in American history when he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972, at the age of 29. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, and was the fourth-most senior senator. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in both 1988 and 2008.

In January 2009, Biden resigned from the Senate, to serve as Barack Obama's vice president, after they won the 2008 presidential election. They were re-elected to a second term in 2012.

Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election on April 25, 2019.^[2] A total of 29 major candidates declared their candidacies for the primaries, the largest field of presidential candidates for any American political party since 1972;^[3] but over time, the field narrowed down to Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont.^[4] Eventually, Sanders withdrew from the race, and Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee in April 2020.^[5] Biden reached the delegate threshold needed to secure the nomination in June 2020.^[6] He defeated incumbent president Donald Trump in the general election, with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election.^[7]

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joseph R. Biden, Jr.	10,573	55.41
	Republican	Lawrence T. Messick (incumbent)	8,192	42.93
	American	Kenneth A. Horner	317	1.66
Total votes			19,082	100.00
	Democratic gain from Republican

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden	116,006	50.48
	Republican	J. Caleb Boggs (incumbent)	112,844	49.10
	American	Henry Majka	803	0.35
	Prohibition	Herbert B. Wood	175	0.08
Total votes			229,828	100.00
	Democratic gain from Republican

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	93,930	57.96
	Republican	James H. Baxter Jr.	66,479	41.02
	American	Donald G. Gies	1,663	1.03
Total votes			162,072	100.00
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	147,831	60.11
	Republican	John M. Burris	98,101	39.89
Total votes			245,932	100.00
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	112,918	62.68
	Republican	M. Jane Brady	64,554	35.83
	Libertarian	Lee Rosenbaum	2,680	1.49
	Write-in		5	0.00
Total votes			180,157	100.00
	Democratic hold

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Electoral history of Joe Biden

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U.S. Senate elections (1972–2008)

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Presidential elections (2008–2024)

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Nomination

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Primaries

See also

Notes

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	165,465	60.04
	Republican	Ray Clatworthy	105,088	38.13
	Libertarian	Lee Rosenbaum	3,340	1.21
	Natural Law	Jacqueline Kossoff	1,698	0.62
Total votes			275,591	100.00
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	135,253	58.22
	Republican	Ray Clatworthy	94,793	40.80
	Independent	Bud Barros	996	0.43
	Libertarian	Raymond Buranello	922	0.40
	Natural Law	Robert E. Mattson	350	0.15
Total votes			232,314	100.00
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	257,539	64.69
	Republican	Christine O'Donnell	140,595	35.31
Total votes			398,134	100.00
	Democratic hold

Candidate	Votes	%
Walter Mondale	2,191	56.41
Gary Hart	1,201	30.90
Jesse Jackson	466	12.00
Thomas Eagleton	18	0.46
George McGovern	4	0.10
John Glenn	2	0.05
Joe Biden	1	0.03
Martha Kirkland	1	0.03
Total votes	3,884	100.00

Candidate	Votes	%
Michael Dukakis	2,877	70.09
Jesse Jackson	1,219	29.70
Richard Stallings	3	0.07
Joe Biden	2	0.05
Dick Gephardt	2	0.05
Lloyd Bentsen	1	0.02
Gary Hart	1	0.02
Total votes	4,162	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Raymond Stebbins	50,485	46.93
	Democratic	William Bryk	22,965	21.35
	Democratic	John Edwards	10,553	9.81
	Democratic	Barack Obama	6,402	5.95
	Democratic	Bill Richardson	5,525	5.14
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton	3,419	3.18
	Democratic	Joe Biden	1,512	1.41
	Democratic	Al Gore	966	0.90
	Democratic	Dennis Kucinich	762	0.71
	Democratic	Bill Clinton	388	0.36
	Republican	John McCain	293	0.27
	Democratic	Christopher Dodd	224	0.21
	Republican	Ron Paul	176	0.16
	Republican	John Barnes Jr.	95	0.09
	Democratic	Mike Gravel	91	0.09
	Democratic	Joe Lieberman	67	0.06
	Republican	Mitt Romney	66	0.06
	Republican	Mike Huckabee	63	0.06
	Republican	Rudy Giuliani	46	0.04
	Democratic	Darrel Hunter	20	0.02
Total votes			104,118	100.00

Candidate	Votes	%
Barack Obama	16,706,853	49.04
Hillary Clinton	16,239,821	47.67
John Edwards	742,010	2.18
Bill Richardson	89,054	0.26
Uncommitted	82,660	0.24
Dennis Kucinich	68,482	0.20
Joe Biden	64,041	0.19
Mike Gravel	27,662	0.08
Christopher Dodd	25,300	0.07
Others	22,556	0.07
Total votes	34,068,439	100.00

Candidate	Votes	%
Hillary Clinton	18,225,175	48.03
Barack Obama	17,988,182	47.41
John Edwards	1,006,275	2.65
Uncommitted	299,610	2.79
Bill Richardson	106,073	0.28
Dennis Kucinich	103,994	0.27
Joe Biden	81,641	0.22
Scattering	44,348	0.12
Mike Gravel	40,251	0.11
Christopher Dodd	35,281	0.09
Total votes	37,980,830	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden	–^{[lower-alpha 1]}	100.00%
Total votes			–	100.00%

Candidate		Running mate	Party	Popular vote		Electoral vote
Candidate		Running mate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Barack Obama	Joe Biden	Democratic	69,498,516	52.91	365	67.84
	John McCain	Sarah Palin	Republican	59,948,323	45.64	173	32.16
	Ralph Nader	Matt Gonzalez	Independent	739,034	0.56
	Bob Barr	Wayne Allyn Root	Libertarian	523,715	0.40
	Chuck Baldwin	Darrell Castle	Constitution	199,750	0.15
	Cynthia McKinney	Rosa Clemente	Green	161,797	0.12
Others				290,626	0.22
Total				131,361,761	100.00	538	100.00

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2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries^[24]
Candidate	Votes	%
Joe Biden	19,076,052	51.79
Bernie Sanders	9,679,213	26.28
Elizabeth Warren	2,831,472	7.69
Michael Bloomberg	2,488,734	6.76
Pete Buttigieg	924,237	2.51
Amy Klobuchar	529,713	1.44
Tulsi Gabbard	273,940	0.74
Tom Steyer	259,792	0.71
Andrew Yang	170,517	0.46
Uncommitted	130,081	0.35
Michael Bennet	63,124	0.17
Julian Castro	37,037	0.10
Others	370,044	1.01
Total votes	36,833,956	100.00

2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries^[27]
*as of March 23, 2024*
Candidate	Votes	%
Joe Biden (incumbent)	10,116,916	86.84
Uncommitted	459,331	3.94
Dean Phillips	391,377	3.36
Marianne Williamson	381,154	3.27
Armando Perez-Serrato	76,244	0.65
Gabriel Cornejo	69,701	0.60
Frank Lozada	36,571	0.31
Stephen Lyons	34,378	0.30
President R. Boddie	24,773	0.21
Cenk Uygur	20,546	0.18
Eban Cambridge	12,645	0.11
Others	26,484	0.23
Total votes	11,650,120	100.00

Candidate	Votes	%
Joe Biden	3,558	75.48
Bernie Sanders	1,151	24.42
Abstention	5	0.11
Total votes	4,714	100.00