Electoral history of Joe Biden

Joe Biden was the 47th vice president of the United States (2009–2017) and a former U.S. Senator from Delaware (1973–2009). He formally ran as a Democratic candidate for president in 1988 and 2008, and is running again in 2020. He won his first presidential primary in the 2020 South Carolina contest. A few days later, on Super Tuesday, he won primaries in nine more states.

Early election

1970 New Castle County, Delaware Councilman for the 4th District[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joseph R. Biden, Jr.	10,573	55.41
	Republican	Lawrence T. Messick	8,192	42.93
	American	Kenneth A. Horner	317	1.66
Total votes			19,082	100.0

United States Senate elections

**1972 United States Senate election in Delaware**
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Joe Biden	116,006	50.5%
Republican	J. Caleb Boggs (incumbent)	112,844	49.1%
American	Henry Majka	803	0.4%
Prohibition	Herbert B. Wood	175	0.1%

**1978 United States Senate election in Delaware**
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	93,930	58.0%
Republican	James H. Baxter, Jr.	66,479	41.0%
American	Donald G. Gies	1,663	1.0%

**1984 United States Senate election in Delaware**
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	147,831	60.1%
	Republican	John M. Burris	98,101	39.9%

**1990 United States Senate election in Delaware**
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	112,918	62.7%
Republican	M. Jane Brady	64,554	35.8%
Libertarian	Lee Rosenbaum	2,680	1.5%
None	Others	5	<0.01%

**1996 United States Senate election in Delaware**
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	165,465	60%
Republican	Ray Clatworthy	105,088	38%
Libertarian	Lee Rosenbaum	3,340	1.2%
Natural Law	Jacqueline Kossoff	1,698	0.6%

**2002 United States Senate election in Delaware**
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	135,253	58.2%
Republican	Ray Clatworthy	94,793	40.8%
Delaware Independent	Bud Barros	996	0.4%
Libertarian	Raymond Buranello	922	0.4%
Natural Law	Robert E. Mattson	350	0.2%

**2008 United States Senate election in Delaware**
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Joe Biden (incumbent)	257,484	64.7%
	Republican	Christine O'Donnell	140,584	35.3%

Presidential elections

1984

1984 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):

Walter Mondale – 2,191 (56.41%)
Gary Hart – 1,201 (30.92%)
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%)

1988

1988 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):

Michael Dukakis – 2,877 (70.09%)
Jesse Jackson – 1,219 (29.70%)
Richard H. Stallings – 3 (0.07%)
Joe Biden – 2 (0.05%)
Dick Gephardt – 2 (0.05%)
Lloyd Bentsen – 1 (0.02%)
Gary Hart – 1 (0.02%)

2008

2008 New Hampshire Democratic vice presidential primary:

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

2008 Democratic presidential primaries:

Excluding penalized contests, only primary and caucuses votes:

Barack Obama – 16,706,853
Hillary Clinton – 16,239,821
John Edwards – 742,010
Bill Richardson – 89,054
Uncommitted – 82,660
Dennis Kucinich – 68,482
Joe Biden – 64,041
Mike Gravel – 27,662
Christopher Dodd – 25,300
Others – 22,556

Including penalized contests:

Hillary Clinton – 18,225,175 (48.03%)
Barack Obama – 17,988,182 (47.41%)
John Edwards – 1,006,275 (2.65%)
Uncommitted – 299,610 (0.79%)
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%)

2008 Democratic National Convention (vice presidential tally):[2]

Joe Biden – chosen by acclamation

**2008 United States presidential election**
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Barack Obama/Joe Biden	69,498,516	53%
Republican	John McCain/Sarah Palin	59,948,323	46%
Independent	Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez	739,034	0.6%
Libertarian	Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root	523,715	0.4%

2012

2012 Democratic National Convention (vice presidential tally):[3]

Joe Biden – chosen by acclamation

**2012 United States presidential election**
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Barack Obama (incumbent)/Joe Biden (incumbent)	65,915,795	51.1%
Republican	Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan	60,933,504	47.2%
Libertarian	Gary Johnson/James P. Gray	1,275,971	1.0%
Green	Jill Stein/Cheri Honkala	469,627	0.4%

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References

"STATE OF DELAWARE Official Results of General Election (EXCLUDING WRITE-IN VOTES) 1970" (PDF). Office of the Delaware State Election Commissioner. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
"CNN.com Video". CNN. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
"Beau Biden Speech Kicks Of Motion To Nominate Father Joe Biden For Vice President". The Huffington Post. September 6, 2012.

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[1] "STATE OF DELAWARE Official Results of General Election (EXCLUDING WRITE-IN VOTES) 1970" (PDF). Office of the Delaware State Election Commissioner. Retrieved April 28, 2020.

[2] "CNN.com Video". CNN. Retrieved May 1, 2010.

[3] "Beau Biden Speech Kicks Of Motion To Nominate Father Joe Biden For Vice President". The Huffington Post. September 6, 2012.