The 2020 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 3, 2020 as part of the 2020 presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters choose eleven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.
Arizona was won by incumbent President William C. Holland (D-Texas) with 59.47% of the popular vote over Senator John Dickenson (R-Mississippi), who obtained 40.53%.
As Holland won nationally in a massive landslide, winning every state in the Union except for Dickenson's home state of Mississippi, Arizona weighed in as 14.66% more Republican than the national average. Arizona had been a generally Republican state ever since the 1952 election, when Dwight D. Eisenhower had carried it decisively over Adlai Stevenson. During the following 68 years, Democrats only carried the state once: in Al Gore's landslide reelection of 2000. After the turn of the century, the movement of transplants from California, the Northeast, and elsewhere, combined with generational turnover and the increase of the state's Hispanic population, gradually shifted the state towards the Democrats. This process, which began with the election of Richard Carmona to the Senate in 2016 and of Krysten Sinema in 2018, reached its culmination by 2020. Senator Dickenson, whose positions on Medicare, agricultural policy, federal subsidies, immigration, and Social Security were viewed negatively in this state, stood no chance against President Holland.
Holland won all but one of Arizona's counties: Graham County in the southeast, which gave Dickenson an absolute majority. He broke 60% in three counties: Greenlee County, Navajo County, and Pima County, the last being home to the Democratic stronghold of Tuscon. He exceeded 70% in three additional counties: heavily Hispanic Santa Cruz County, Apache County, home to the Apache Indian Reservation, and Coconino County, home to Flagstaff. Holland carried the populous Pinal and Maricopa Counties by decisive margins, with 59% and 58% of the vote respectively. He thus became only the second Democrat, following Gore, to win Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, the state's capital and largest city, since 1948. It was Maricopa County, however, that denied him 60% statewide, as Dickenson still netted more than 40% there. Holland won eight of Arizona's congressional districts; Dickenson carried AZ-05, based in Gilbert, thus making Arizona one of fourteen states where he won a congressional district.
Results[]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | William C. Holland (incumbent) | 1,548,989 | 59.47% | |
| Republican | John Dickenson | 1,055,667 | 40.53% | |
| Total votes | 2,604,657 | 100% | ||