Electoral history of Joe Biden

Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States,[1] has run for public office several times, beginning in 1970.

Biden has never lost a general election, though he failed to win the Democratic nomination for president in 1984, 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.

[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.

Joe Biden at his presidential kick-off rally in Philadelphia , May 2019
1972 U.S. Senate map
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Electoral College map of the 2008 presidential election
Electoral College map of the 2012 presidential election
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Electoral College map of the 2020 presidential election
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