Did a plurality of Tarrant County voters cast a ballot for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020?
By Olla Mokhtar
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Democrat Joe Biden received 1,826 more votes than Republican Donald Trump in Tarrant County during the 2020 presidential election. Biden’s margin of victory was 0.22%.
Biden received 411,567 votes; Trump received 409,741. Biden received 49.31% of the vote, while Trump received 49.09%; the remainder went to third-party candidates.
Though Biden won Tarrant County in 2020, Republicans won the majority of the local elected offices.
In the November 2020 election, 68.96% of Tarrant County’s 1,216,618 registered voters turned out to the polls.
Across Texas, Trump won with 52.06% of the vote to Biden’s 46.48%.
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Sources
Tarrant County Elections Department Nov. 3, 2020, election cumulative report of official results
Tarrant County Elections Department Nov. 3, 2020 joint general and special election results
Texas Secretary of State Nov. 3, 2020, official election results
Texas Secretary of State Texas Election Results
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