Skip to content

Friday, May. 17, 2024

Did a plurality of Tarrant County voters cast a ballot for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020?


yes

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%.

See a full discussion of this at Fort Worth Report

This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.

Sources

About fact briefs

Fact briefs are bite-sized, well-sourced explanations that offer clear "yes" or "no" answers to questions, confusions, and unsupported claims circulating online. They rely on publicly available data and documents, often from the original source. Fact briefs are written and published by Gigafact contributor publications.

See all fact briefs

The Fort Worth Report is a 501(c)(3) organization that launched April 12, 2021. This new media outlet is built on a foundation of local leadership and local investment. It provides community-sourced journalism that exclusively supports and reports on the Fort Worth community with fact-based, thoughtful and contextual coverage without bias or predetermined agendas. The enterprise is governed by a mission statement, bylaws, and an organizational structure that ensures it remains faithful to these foundational principles.

Learn More

Be a Friend of facts

Help us fund more great fact briefs like this one.