2020 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary
West Coast's elimination final against Collingwood occurred on Saturday, 3 October. The Eagles went into the match as favourites, due to having beat the Magpies by 66 points earlier in the season, having won all games at home during the home-and-away season, and being higher on the ladder than the Magpies. However, after several lead changes in the match, Collingwood ended up winning the elimination final by 1 point, ending West Coast's 2020 season. This was the first year since 2016 where West Coast did not progress beyond the first week of the finals.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Impact of COVID-19
During the week prior to the 2020 season starting, the AFL announced that the season would be shorted from 22 matches per team to 17 matches per team, with each team playing each other once. This meant 2020 was the first year where only one Western Derby took place. At the time, the AFL said the first four rounds of the season would remain as previously fixtured, with the remaining rounds to be refixtured.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Impact of COVID-19
It also announced that there would not be any spectators at games for the first time in the league's history, and that each quarter would be only 16 minutes long, to facilitate shortening the breaks between each game. Round 1 went ahead as originally fixtured, however the AFL announced on the Sunday of round 1 that the league would be postponed until at least the start of June. The remaining matches of round 1 occurred, including the West Coast match, but no more matches occurred for over two months.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Impact of COVID-19
On 12 May 2020, the AFL ruled that AFL players are not allowed to play in state leagues as part of strict protocols implemented due to COVID-19. This resulted in West Coast withdrawing from the West Australian Football League for 2020. Western Australia's COVID-19 border restrictions meant that any travellers from interstate would have to quarantine for 14 days. This made it impractical to hold AFL matches in Perth. In order to get the season back up and running, West Coast stayed in a hub on the Gold Coast for five weeks, playing matches at Metricon Stadium and the Gabba. The season resumed on 11 June. From round 3 onwards, matches in Queensland were allowed to have small crowds.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Impact of COVID-19
From rounds 7 to 13, West Coast were back in Perth, playing consecutive games at Optus Stadium. To get around the interstate travel quarantine requirement, two interstate teams would go to Western Australia, and play each other for their first week in the state, under strict quarantine while doing so. After the 14 day quarantine period, then they played West Coast and Fremantle, before heading over east again. The first two teams to do this were Collingwood and Geelong, followed by Carlton and Hawthorn, and finally Sydney and Greater Western Sydney.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Impact of COVID-19
Initially Optus Stadium was meant to be at its full capacity of 60,000 spectators, but the Western Australian government restricted it to 30,000 spectators after a spike in virus numbers in Victoria. Due to West Coast having already played Sydney, they flew back over to Queensland after playing Greater Western Sydney for a second hub on the Gold Coast.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Impact of COVID-19
West Coast played their remaining six matches of the home-and-away season at Metricon Stadium and the Gabba. Rounds 13 through to 17 were condensed in order for the season to finish sooner. This resulted in the Eagles playing five matches over 19 days. West Coast negotiated with North Melbourne to buy the rights from them to host their round 18 game in Perth. The deal would have meant West Coast pay North Melbourne between $700,000 and $800,000, however the AFL did not allow that deal to go ahead. The match was played at North Melbourne's preferred ground of Metricon Stadium.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Impact of COVID-19
West Coast went back home for their preliminary final against Collingwood, which they hosted at Optus Stadium. Prior to the match, West Coast quarantined in Perth for 14 days, and Collingwood quarantined for 7 days. Due to the Magpie's short quarantine period, it was initially believed that the Eagles would have to quarantine for 14 days if they lost, but it was later confirmed that they would quarantine for 7 days. The Western Australian government increased the allowed capacity of the stadium to 35,000, including staff and officials, meaning that approximately 33,000 spectators were allowed to attend the game.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
Nic Naitanui, Liam Ryan and Brad Sheppard were all selected in the 2020 All-Australian team. Andrew Gaff was in the 40-man initial squad but was not selected for the final team. West Coast had the equal highest number of players in the 2020 All-Australian team that year, with three. 2020 was the first time Liam Ryan and Brad Sheppard were selected in the All-Australian team, and the second time Nic Naitanui was selected.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
West Coast held its awards night on 19 October at the Crown Perth Grand Ballroom. Nic Naitanui won the John Worsfold Medal with 194 votes. Behind him was Andrew Gaff (192), Brad Sheppard (163), Tom Barrass (154) and Liam Duggan (152). This was Naitanui's first John Worsfold Medal, and the second time a ruckman won the award. His previous highest place for the medal was fifth, in 2010.


2020 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
Other awards presented on the night were the Chris Mainwaring Medal for Best Clubman, awarded to Brad Sheppard; Emerging Talent, awarded to Josh Rotham; Player of the finals, awarded to Nic Naitanui; and Leading Goalkicker, awarded to Josh Kennedy. Jamie Cripps, who played his 150th game for the club in 2020 was awarded life membership of the West Coast Eagles, along with former eagles Eric Mackenzie and Beau Waters, and former club chairman Alan Cransberg.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia. The 2020 AFL Women's season was their first year in that competition. Luke Dwyer was the team's inaugural coach, and Emma Swanson was the team's inaugural captain. West Coast finished the home-and-away season seventh out of seven on the ladder, with a win–loss record of 1–5.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season
Dana Hooker was the team's best and fairest player, winning the West Coast Club Champion medal. Hayley Bullas was the team's leading goalkicker, with two goals.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season, Background
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia. Having competed in the mens' Australian Football League since 1987, 2020 was their first year in the AFL Women's competition.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season, Background
Luke Dwyer was announced as the inaugural West Coast Eagles AFLW coach in December 2018. He was already a development coach for the Eagles' mens' team.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season, Background
In December 2019, it was announced that Emma Swanson would be the team's inaugural captain, having previously served as vice-captain at Greater Western Sydney. The vice-captain was Dana Hooker, and the rest of the leadership group consisted of Maddy Collier, Courtney Guard and Alicia Janz.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season, Background
West Coast had 3,318 members in 2020, the most of any AFLW club.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season, Impact of COVID-19
On 11 March 2020, COVID-19 was formally declared a pandemic. This was on the Wednesday prior to round 6. As a result, West Coast's round 6 match did not have any spectators, and their rounds 7 and 8 matches against Carlton and St Kilda were cancelled. Due to their ladder position at the end of round 6, West Coast did not proceed to the finals series.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season, Season summary
West Coast were in Conference B for the 2020 AFLW season.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season, Awards
West Coast held its inaugural AFLW awards night at Mineral Resources Park on 11 August 2020. Vice-captain Dana Hooker won the Club Champion award with 26 votes. The runners-up were Emma Swanson, with 25 votes, and Ashlee Atkins and Parris Laurie with 23 votes. Imahra Cameron was the Best First Year Player, and Alicia Janz was the Best Club Person.


2020 West Coast Eagles women's season, Awards
Dana Hooker was West Coast's only player in the 40-woman initial All-Australian squad. She did not get selected for the All-Australian team.


2020 West Sumatra gubernatorial election
The 2020 West Sumatra gubernatorial election was held on 9 December 2020 in West Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of the simultaneous local elections. This election was held by the West Sumatra Regional General Elections Commission (KPU), to elect the Governor of West Sumatra along with his deputy to a 2021–2024 mandate.


2020 West Sumatra gubernatorial election
The incumbent Governor Irwan Prayitno was ineligible to run for a third term as he has already served two terms after winning the election in 2010 and being re-elected in 2015. The elected governor and deputy governor were inaugurated on 25 February 2021 by President Joko Widodo.


2020 West Sumatra gubernatorial election, Seats at the DPRD
There are 9 political parties that gained seats at the West Sumatra Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) in the 2019 legislative election.


2020 West Sumatra gubernatorial election, Debates
There were two gubernatorial debates, both of which were attended by the four candidates for governor and deputy governor.


2020 West Sumatra gubernatorial election, Controversy
On 2 September 2020, while submitting a letter of recommendation to the candidate pair of Mulyadi–Ali Mukhni from her party, in support of them, the Chairwoman of the Central Board of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Puan Maharani, made a remark that offended West Sumatra public at large, as she hopes that West Sumatra "could become a province that does support a Pancasila state". Another controversial statement was also made by the General Chairwoman of the PDIP, Megawati Sukarnoputri, who questioned West Sumatra people in general who disliked her party. Because of such controversial statements that deemed offending West Sumatra citizens, Mulyadi–Ali Mukhni eventually returned the letter of recommendation from the party, leaving the PDIP not participating in this election.


2020 West Sumatra gubernatorial election, Controversy
On 5 December 2020, Mulyadi was named suspect by the Criminal Investigation Agency for allegedly violating campaigning rules. However, the case was stopped on 13 December 2020, and he was acquitted from all charges since.


2020 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary
The 2020 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary was held on June 9, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though it was originally scheduled for Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Had it been held on its scheduled date, it would've been one of two contests on that date in the Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The West Virginia primary is a semi-closed primary, with the state awarding 34 delegates, of which 28 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.


2020 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary
The Associated Press declared that Joe Biden won the West Virginia Democratic presidential primary. Biden swept the state, winning all 55 counties, a stark reversal from 2016 when Bernie Sanders won all 55 counties, although Sanders had suspended his campaign prior to the state's primary.


2020 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
West Virginia was the only state voting on June 9, 2020, in the Democratic primaries. Voting took place throughout the state from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.


2020 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
In the semi-closed primary, candidates must meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 28 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention were allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of the 28 pledged delegates, between 5 and 6 were allocated to each of the state's 3 congressional districts and another 3 were allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 5 at-large pledged delegates. These delegate totals do not account for pledged delegate bonuses or penalties from timing or clustering.


2020 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
On Friday, June 12, 2020, national convention district-level delegates were nominated in district caucuses during the state convention. The state executive committee, meeting the following day, voted on the 5 pledged at-large and 3 PLEO delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention. The 28 pledged delegates West Virginia sent to the national convention were joined by 6 unpledged PLEO delegates (5 members of the Democratic National Committee and one Senator).


2020 West Virginia House of Delegates election
Elections to the West Virginia House of Delegates took place on November 3, 2020. All the seats in the West Virginia House of Delegates were up for election.


2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mountaineers played their home games at the Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, in Morgantown, West Virginia, and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by second-year head coach Neal Brown.


2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Previous season
The Mountaineers finished the 2019 season with a 5–7 record, 3–6 in Big 12 play, failing to earn bowl eligibility.


2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Offseason, Coaching changes
Offensive coordinator Matt Moore was promoted to assistant head coach, and was replaced in his role as offensive coordinator by Penn State wide receivers coach Gerad Parker. Parker also replaced Xavier Dye, who departed for South Florida, as wide receivers coach. Additionally, the Mountaineers hired Jeff Koonz from Ole Miss to serve as inside linebackers and special team coach and later became co-defensive coordinator.


2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Offseason, Coaching changes
On July 22, Defensive coordinator Vic Koenning parted ways with West Virginia after allegations of mistreatment by West Virginia players. To replace him, they promoted three defensive coaches to become co-defensive coordinators: Jordan Lesley, Jahmile Addae, and Jeff Koonz. They also moved linebackers coach Dontae Wright to safeties coach along with promoting analyst Jeff Casteel to outside linebackers coach.


2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Preseason, Big 12 media days
The Big 12 media days were held on July 21–22, 2020 in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Schedule, Spring game
The West Virginia football spring "Blue-Gold game" was canceled due to COVID-19.


2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Schedule, Regular season
West Virginia released its 2020 schedule on October 21, 2019. The 2020 schedule originally consisted of 7 home games, 4 away games, and 1 neutral-site game in the regular season. The Mountaineers were to host two non-conference games against Eastern Kentucky and Maryland, and play a non-conference neutral site game against Florida State in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. West Virginia was to host Kansas State, TCU, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Baylor; and travel to Texas Tech, Texas, Oklahoma State, and Iowa State in regular-season conference play.


2020 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Schedule, Regular season
The Mountaineers' games against Florida State, scheduled for September 5, and Maryland, scheduled for September 19, were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 West Virginia Republican presidential primary
The 2020 West Virginia Republican presidential primary was held on June 9, 2020 along with the Georgia primary on the same day. All 35 of West Virginia's delegates to the 2020 Republican National Convention were allocated according to the results.


2020 West Virginia Republican presidential primary
Donald Trump won the primary and all of the state's delegates.


2020 West Virginia Senate election
The 2020 West Virginia Senate elections were held on November 3, 2020, as part of the biennial United States elections. Seventeen of the 34 West Virginia state senators stood for election. West Virginia Senate districts each have two elected representatives.


2020 West Virginia Senate election, Retirements
Four incumbents did not run for re-election in 2020. Those incumbents are:


2020 West Virginia Senate election, Incumbents defeated, In primary elections
Three incumbents were defeated in the June 9 primaries, the same number as were defeated in the 2018 primaries. Senator Mitch Carmichael (R) was one of the three incumbents defeated. As president of the state Senate, Carmichael also served as the lieutenant governor of West Virginia.


2020 West Virginia Senate election, Results summary
All results are certified by the Secretary of State of West Virginia.


2020 West Virginia elections
West Virginia held elections on November 3, 2020. Elections for the United States Senate and House, as well as for several statewide offices including the governorship were held. These elections were held concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election and other elections nationwide. The Democratic and Republican party primary elections were held on June 9, 2020.


2020 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, President
Incumbent Republican Donald Trump easily carried West Virginia, capturing 68.82% of the vote. Trump captured every county in the state and it was his second-best showing behind Wyoming.


2020 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, Senate
Incumbent Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito was easily reelected. With a vote share of 70.1%, she was the first Republican Senator to win reelection in West Virginia since 1907.


2020 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, House of Representatives
All 3 Incumbent Republican U.S. Representatives were easily reelected, all increasing their vote share compared to 2018.


2020 West Virginia elections, Governor
Incumbent Republican Governor Jim Justice won reelection to a second term over Democrat Ben Salango with 64.8% of the vote. Justice increased his vote margin substantially compared with his first election in 2016, when he was the democratic candidate, receiving just 49.1% of the overall vote. This was the first time a Republican candidate carried every county in the state during a gubernatorial election.


2020 West Virginia elections, State Legislature, State Senate
17 of the 34 seats in the West Virginia State Senate held elections, including 11 Republican-held seats and 6 Democratic-held seats. Four incumbents chose not to seek re-election due to retirement: Democrats Paul Hardesty, Roman Prezioso, and Corey Palumbo and Republican Kenny Mann. Republicans won 3 seats over Democratic candidates, increasing their majority in the chamber from 20 to 23 seats.


2020 West Virginia elections, State Legislature, House of Delegates
All 100 seats in the West Virginia House of Delegates will have an election. Nineteen incumbents chose not to seek re-election: 11 Democrats and 8 Republicans. Republicans flipped 18 seats, increasing their majority in the chamber from 58 to 76 seats.


2020 West Virginia elections, Attorney General
Republican incumbent Patrick Morrisey was re-elected with 51.63% of the vote in 2016 and successfully sought re-election.


2020 West Virginia elections, Secretary of State
Republican incumbent Mac Warner was elected with 48.52% of the vote in 2016, and successfully sought re-election.


2020 West Virginia elections, Treasurer
Democratic incumbent John Perdue was re-elected with 50.33% of the vote in 2016, but lost re-election to Republican candidate Riley Moore.


2020 West Virginia elections, Auditor
Republican incumbent JB McCuskey was elected with 58.48% of the vote in 2016 and successfully sought re-election.


2020 West Virginia elections, Commissioner of Agriculture
Republican incumbent Kent Leonhardt was elected with 48.41% of the vote in 2016 and successfully sought re-election.


2020 West Virginia elections, Supreme Court of Appeals, Division 1
The incumbent was Tim Armstead, who was appointed to the court to replace Justice Menis Ketchum, who resigned from the court shortly before being convicted on a felony fraud charge. Armstead then won a 2018 special election to serve the remainder of Ketchum's term with 26.1% of the vote. He successfully won re-election to a full term.


2020 West Virginia elections, Supreme Court of Appeals, Division 2
The incumbent Margaret Workman, did not seek re-election after controversies and the threat of possible impeachment. Bill Wooton, a former state senator, was elected with 31.0% of the vote.


2020 West Virginia elections, Supreme Court of Appeals, Division 3
The incumbent was John A. Hutchison, who was appointed to the court to replace justice Allen Loughry, who resigned from the court in the midst of his impeachment trial. Hutchison successfully sought re-election to serve the remainder of Loughry's term.


2020 West Virginia gubernatorial election
The 2020 West Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the Governor of West Virginia, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 West Virginia gubernatorial election
Incumbent Republican Governor Jim Justice announced his 2020 re-election campaign on January 7, 2019. Justice was elected in 2016 as a Democrat, but later switched back to the Republican Party in a campaign rally with Donald Trump. Justice won re-election to a second term, defeating the Democratic nominee, Kanawha County commissioner Ben Salango. Justice's re-election made him the first Republican to be elected governor of West Virginia since Cecil Underwood in 1996.


2020 West Virginia gubernatorial election
Additionally, Justice became the first incumbent Republican governor to win re-election since Arch A. Moore Jr. in 1972, and the first Republican to carry all counties in West Virginia. However, Justice performed worse than Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who outperformed Justice by 3.82 percentage points. Additionally, Ben Salango slightly outperformed Biden by 1.11 percentage points.


2020 West Virginia gubernatorial election, Other candidates, Mountain Party
The Mountain Party received over 5% of the vote in 2016 with former State Senator and Delegate Charlotte Pritt as the party's gubernatorial nominee. The party nominates its candidate for governor by convention per its bylaws.


2020 Western & Southern Open
The 2020 Western & Southern Open was a men's and women's tennis tournament being played on outdoor hard courts from August 22–29, 2020. It was the first Masters 1000 tournament on the 2020 ATP Tour and the second WTA Premier 5 tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour. This was the first ATP tournament since the Tour was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Western & Southern Open
The 2020 tournament was the 119th men's edition and the 92nd women's edition of the Cincinnati Masters. This event normally took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, but was held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, United States, in order to reduce unnecessary player travel by centralizing the tournament and the subsequent US Open in the same venue.


2020 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:


2020 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player used a protected ranking into the main singles draw:


2020 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2020 Western & Southern Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2020 Western & Southern Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:


2020 Western & Southern Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2020 Western & Southern Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2020 Western & Southern Open – Men's Doubles
Ivan Dodig and Filip Polášek were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Pablo Carreño Busta and Alex de Minaur.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Men's Doubles
Carreño Busta and de Minaur went on to win the title, defeating Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski in the final, 6–2, 7–5.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic defeated Milos Raonic in the final, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2020 Cincinnati Masters. With the win, he claimed his record-equaling 35th ATP Masters 1000 title, (tying Rafael Nadal’s tally of Masters 1000 titles). He also completed the career Golden Masters for a second time. Djokovic became the first new singles titlist on the ATP Tour since its suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles
Daniil Medvedev was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Roberto Bautista Agut.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Women's Doubles
Lucie Hradecká and Andreja Klepač were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Květa Peschke and Demi Schuurs.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Women's Doubles
Peschke and Schuurs went on to win the title, defeating Nicole Melichar and Xu Yifan in the final, 6–1, 4–6, [10–4].


2020 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles
Madison Keys was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Ons Jabeur.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles
Victoria Azarenka won the title via walkover, after Naomi Osaka withdrew from the final with a hamstring injury. This was Azarenka’s first singles title since Miami in March 2016, and her first since giving birth to her son Leo in December 2016.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.


2020 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season
The 2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season will be the 38th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The regular season will begin on February 3, 2021 and conclude on April 10, 2021.


2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season
The regular season will culminate with the 2020 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament, which will begin on April 14 and conclude on April 18, 2021.


2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WAC postponed sports through the calendar year on August 13, 2020.


2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
On November 4, 2020, the NCAA approved moving fall championships to the spring.


2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
San Jose State announced that they will not have fans at home games.


2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Teams
A total of 11 teams are due to take part in the conference this season.


2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Teams, Changes from last season
The 2019 season was the last for both CSU Bakersfield and Kansas City as WAC members. On July 1, 2020, CSU Bakersfield joined the Big West Conference and Kansas City returned to the Summit League after a seven-year absence.


2020 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Teams, Changes from last season
The WAC added a new member, as Dixie State joined from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. They will be ineligible for the postseason until the 2024–25 season, as they will complete the four-year reclassification process.


2020 Western Carolina Catamounts football team
The 2020 Western Carolina Catamounts football team represents Western Carolina University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They are led by ninth-year head coach Mark Speir and play their home games at Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium.


2020 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team
The 2020 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team represented Western Illinois University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Jared Elliott and played their home games at Hanson Field. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC).


2020 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team
On April 5, 2021, Western Illinois announced that it was opting out of the remainder of the 2021 spring season due to a lack of available players.


2020 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Previous season
The Leathernecks finished the 2019 season 1–11, 1–7 in MVFC play to finish in a two-way tie for ninth place.


2020 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Schedule
Western Illinois's games scheduled against Southern Illinois (April 10) and South Dakota (April 17) were canceled when the Leathernecks opted out of the remainder of the season.


2020 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 2020 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team (WKU) represented Western Kentucky University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hilltoppers played their home games at the Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by second-year head coach Tyson Helton.


2020 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Previous season
The Hilltoppers finished the 2019 regular season 9–4, 6–2 in CUSA which they tied for second in the East Division with Marshall. The team was invited to play in the First Responder Bowl against Western Michigan, where the Hilltoppers took their ninth win of the season.


2020 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Preseason, CUSA media days
The CUSA Media Days will be held virtually for the first time in conference history.


2020 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Schedule
Western Kentucky announced its 2020 football schedule on January 8, 2020. The 2020 schedule consists of 6 home and 5 away games in the regular season.


2020 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Schedule
The Hilltoppers had games scheduled against Indiana and Old Dominion, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 2020 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Broncos played their home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and competed in the West Division of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The team was led by fourth-year head coach Tim Lester. On August 8, 2020, it was announced that the MAC would be cancelling the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The MAC later changed that decision, with teams playing a six-game conference-only season.


2020 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Schedule
Western Michigan had games scheduled against Stony Brook and Syracuse, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Western Premier League season
The 2020 Western Premier League was the 20th season of the Western Premier League (WPL), the top football league in the Central West region of New South Wales. It was the first season of the competition since 2012. Dubbo Bulls were the three-time defending champions, having won the past three competitions in 2010, 2011 and 2012.


2020 Western Premier League season
The season kicked-off with three games on 11 July, with the Parkes Cobras-Orana Spurs match at Woodward Park in Parkes the first to get underway, marking the first WPL match in eight years. The season concluded with the grand final on 26 September. Dubbo Bulls claimed a fourth WPL title after defeating local rivals Macquarie United in the grand final 2–1 at Apex Oval.


2020 Western Premier League season, Background and season summary
The previous iteration of the Western Premier League had originally folded at the end of 2012 season when Dubbo Westside and Dubbo Bulls FC all pulled out in quick succession, leaving just three teams in the competition. Talks continued towards the end of 2019 and in the early months of 2020 about reviving the competition before the competition's return was officially announced by Western NSW Football in February.


2020 Western Premier League season, Background and season summary
Nine teams originally nominated for the competition - former champions Dubbo Bulls and Orange Waratahs, as well as Barnstoneworth United, Lithgow Workmen's, Macquarie United (Dubbo), Orana Spurs, Panorama, the newly-formed Parkes Cobras and South Dubbo Wanderers. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Waratahs and Wanderers withdraw from the competition before a ball was kicked. With two teams withdrawing and with restrictions in place by Football NSW and the NSW Government, the competition could not kick-off in April, as originally planned, and restrictions threatened to cancel the WPL's return. But as restrictions were lifted, the WPL got the green light to return in July and it kicked-off on the fourth of that month with three matches on the same day.


2020 Western Premier League season, Background and season summary
The first round of matches saw Parkes Cobras (a team formed specially for the WPL) host Orana Spurs at Woodward Oval, Macquarie United were away in Orange to face Barnstoneworth United and Dubbo Bulls would face Panorama at Lady Cutler Oval. Lithgow Workmen's had the bye. The Parkes-Orana match kicked-off at 3pm, 15 minutes before the game in Orange and an hour before the Bulls-Panorama match, meaning Cobras' 17th minute opener by Daniel Clarke was the first WPL goal in eight years. All matches in the opening round ended in 1-all stalemates.


2020 Western Premier League season, Background and season summary
The first wins of the 2020 WPL season came in the second round when Barnstoneworth United overcome Panorama 4–2 in Bathurst, Dubbo Bulls won 4–1 away at Parkes Cobras, and Lithgow Workmen's defeated Macquarie United 2–1.


2020 Western Premier League season, Background and season summary
At the halfway mark in the season, Macquarie United surprised many by leading the competition by two points over Lithgow Workmen's and Dubbo Bulls, in second and third respectively. The Paul Crain-coached Macquarie side had a team featuring a number of teenagers, carried over from its Dubbo and District Football Association A grade campaign from 2019. Many expected the youthful side to finish last, however, Macquarie would eventually finish the regular season in first place, claiming the Premiers' Plate, one point ahead of city rivals Dubbo Bulls in second.


2020 Western Premier League season, Background and season summary
In a fiery grand final, Dubbo Bulls claimed the title with a 2–1 winner over city rivals Macquarie United at Apex Oval.


2020 Western Storm season
The 2020 season saw Western Storm compete in the new 50 over Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy following reforms to the structure of women's domestic cricket in England. The side finished second in the South Group of the competition, winning 4 of their 6 games, failing to progress to the final.


2020 Western Storm season
After the ending of the Women's Cricket Super League in 2019, the ECB announced the beginning of a new "women's elite domestic structure". Eight teams were included in this new structure, with Western Storm being one of two teams that had their brand retained as a domestic regional hub. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, only the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy was able to take place. Western Storm were captained by Sophie Luff and coached by Mark O'Leary, and played all of their home matches at the County Ground, Bristol.


2020 Western Storm season, Squad
Western Storm confirmed their full 17-player squad for the season on 28 August 2020. Age given is at the start of Western Storm's first match of the season (29 August 2020).


2020 Western United States wildfire season
In 2020, the Western United States experienced a series of major wildfires. Severe August thunderstorms ignited numerous wildfires across California, Oregon, and Washington, followed in early September by additional ignitions across the West Coast. Fanned by strong, gusty winds and fueled by hot, dry terrains, many of the fires exploded and coalesced into record-breaking megafires, burning more than 10.2 million acres (41,000 square kilometres) of land, mobilizing tens of thousands of firefighters, razing over ten thousand buildings, and killing at least 37 people. The fires caused over $19.884 billion (2020 USD) in damages, including $16.5 billion in property damage and $3.384 billion in fire suppression costs. Climate change and poor forest management practices contributed to the severity of the wildfires.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Fire, environment, and cultural shift
Save for areas along the Pacific coast and mountain ridgetops, North America tends to be wetter in the east and drier in the west. This creates ideal conditions in the West for lightning sparked and wind driven storms to spread large-scale, seasonal wildfires. Human societies practicing cultural burns developed in these conditions. Various Indigenous controlled fire practices, as well as their adoption by settlers, were curtailed and outlawed during the European colonization of the Americas, culminating with the modern fire suppression era, signified by the Weeks Act of 1911, which formalized paradigmatic changes in ecosystem priorities and management. Land was protected from fire, and vegetation accumulated near settlements, increasing the risk of explosive, smoky conflagrations.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Fire, environment, and cultural shift
Many indigenous tribes, including the Karuk, have passed down cultural memories of adaptations to fire-prone ecosystems, including cultural burning. In the last few decades, these have been acknowledged by the United States Forest Service, NOAA, and other agencies in American colonial nations.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Fire, environment, and cultural shift
While lightning sparked ignitions are typical of fire-prone ecosystems, higher human population and increased development in the wildland–urban interface has increased accidental and intentional sparking of destructive fires.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Fire, environment, and cultural shift
With the increased burning of fossil fuels the climate has changed, and the globe has heated by around 1 °C.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Record hemispheric heat
The Northern Hemisphere January–August land and ocean surface temperature tied with 2016 as the warmest such period since global records began in 1880. The Southern Hemisphere had its third-warmest such period (tied with 2017) on record, behind 2016 and 2019.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Record hemispheric heat
Record dry weather struck the Western United States in late 2019, extending to January and February 2020,Then brought rain in Early November, Then Driest December 2020 with no rain, prompting initial concerns from state governments and the press.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Record hemispheric heat
California was the first to call out a warning. On March 22, a state of emergency was declared by California Governor Gavin Newsom due to a mass die-off of trees throughout the state, potentially increasing the risk of wildfire. Oregon officially declared the start of their wildfire season that same month. Despite light rain in late March and April, severe drought conditions persisted, and were predicted to last late into the year, due to a delayed wet season. After fires began in Washington in April, several more fires occurred throughout the West Coast, prompting burn ban restrictions in Washington and Oregon, come July.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Year-to-date wildfire figures
United States agencies stationed at the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho maintain a "" on wildfires, delineating 10 sub-national areas, aggregating the regional and national totals of burn size, fire suppression cost, and razed structure count, among other data. As of October 21, "Coordination Centers" of each geography report the following:


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Background, Year-to-date wildfire figures
Note: Check primary sources for up-to-date statistics. This data is not final and may contain duplicate reports until the data is finalized around January 2021.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Initial ignitions and weather conditions
April saw the beginning of wildfires in the west coast, as Washington experienced two fires: the Stanwood Bryant Fire in Snohomish County (70 acres (28 ha)) and the Porter Creek Fire in Whatcom County (80 acres (32 ha)). The Oregon Department of Forestry declared fire season beginning July 5, 2020, signaling the end of unregulated debris burning outdoors, a major cause of wildfires.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Initial ignitions and weather conditions
Between July 16 and 30, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and many county governments – including Mason, Thurston, King, Pierce and Whatcom Counties – issued fire safety burn bans due to elevated risk of uncontrolled fires. In late July, a brush fire in Chelan County, the Colockum Fire, burned at least 3,337 acres (1,350 ha) and caused homes to be evacuated. A fire on the Colville Reservation near Nespelem called the Greenhouse Fire burned at least 5,146 acres (2,083 ha) and caused the evacuation of the Colville Tribal Corrections Facility and other structures.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Initial ignitions and weather conditions
Between August 14 and 16, Northern California was subjected to record-breaking warm temperatures, due to anomalously strong high pressure over the region. Early on August 15, the National Weather Service for San Francisco issued a Fire Weather Watch highlighting the risk of wildfire starts due to the combination of lightning risk due to moist, unstable air aloft, dry fuels, and hot temperatures near the surface. Later that day, the Fire Weather Watch was upgraded to a Red Flag Warning, noting the risk of abundant lightning already apparent as the storms moved toward the region from the south.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Initial ignitions and weather conditions
In mid-August, the remnants of Tropical Storm Fausto interacted with the jet stream, resulting in a large plume of moisture moving northward towards the West Coast of the U.S., triggering a massive siege of lightning storms in Northern California, and setting the conditions for wildfires elsewhere. Due to abnormal wind patterns, this plume streamed from up to 1,000 miles (1,609 km) off the coast of the Baja Peninsula into Northern California. This moisture then interacted with a high-pressure ridge situated over Nevada that was bringing a long-track heat wave to much of California and the West.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Initial ignitions and weather conditions
These colliding weather systems then created excessive atmospheric instability that generated massive thunderstorms throughout much of Northern and Central California. Multiple places also experienced Midwest-style convective “heat bursts”–in which rapid collapse of thunderstorm updrafts caused air parcels aloft to plunge to the surface and warm to extreme levels, with one location near Travis Air Force Base going from around 80 to 100 °F (27 to 38 °C) in nearly 1–2 hours. Additionally, much of these storms were only accompanied with dry lightning and produced little to no rain, making conditions very favorable for wildfires to spark and spread rapidly.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Initial ignitions and weather conditions
As a result of the fires, on August 19, Governors Kate Brown and Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency for Oregon and Washington respectively.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
By August 20, the Palmer Fire near Oroville, Washington – which started August 18 – had reached 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) and forced evacuation of up to 85 homes. The largest of the fires in the Olympics reached 2.4 acres (0.97 ha) by August 20.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
The Evans Canyon Fire, a few miles north of Naches, began around August 31 and expanded to tens of thousands of acres, shut down Washington State Route 821 in the Yakima River Canyon, burned several homes and caused hundreds of families to evacuate, and caused unhealthy air quality in Yakima County. By September 6, it had burned almost 76,000 acres (31,000 ha).


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
The August 2020 lightning fires include three of the largest wildfires in the recorded history of California: the SCU Lightning Complex, the August Complex, and the LNU Lightning Complex. On September 10, 2020, the August Complex became the single-largest wildfire in the recorded history of California, reaching a total area burned of 471,185 acres (1,907 km2). Then, on September 11, it merged with the Elkhorn Fire, another massive wildfire of 255,039 acres (1,032 km2), turning the August Complex into a monster wildfire of 746,607 acres (3,021 km2).


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
In early September 2020, a combination of a record-breaking heat wave, and Diablo and Santa Ana winds sparked more fires and explosively grew active fires, with the August Complex surpassing the 2018 Mendocino Complex to become California's largest recorded wildfire. The North Complex increased in size as the winds fanned it westward, threatening the city of Oroville, and triggering mass evacuations. During the first week in September, the 2020 fire season set a new California record for the most area burned in a year at 2,000,000 acres (810,000 ha). As of September 13, 3,200,000 acres (1,300,000 ha) had burned in the state. On September 5, heat from the Creek Fire generated a large pyrocumulonimbus cloud, described as one of the largest seen in the United States.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
On September 7, a "historic fire event" with high winds resulted in 80 fires and nearly 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) burned in a day. Malden, in the Palouse Country of Eastern Washington, was mostly destroyed by one of the fires. By the evening of September 8, the Cold Springs Canyon and adjacent Pearl Hill Fires had burned over 337,000 acres (136,000 ha) and neither was more than 10% contained. Smoke blanketed the Seattle area on September 8 and caused unhealthy air conditions throughout the Puget Sound region, and affected Southwest British Columbia.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
On September 8, 2020 in Salem, Oregon had wildfire sky turns day into night at the location at late morning or early afternoon, had a red blood sky.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
On September 9, 2020 in San Francisco and Eureka had the dark orange sky looked like Mars, had wildfire smoke fire front turns day into night around the noon.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
The cities of Phoenix and Talent in Oregon were substantially destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire. State-wide, at least 23 people have been killed. On September 11, authorities said they were preparing for a mass fatality incident. As of September 11, 600 homes and 100 commercial buildings have been destroyed by the Almeda Drive Fire. Officials stated that the Almeda Drive Fire was human-caused. On September 11, a man was arrested for arson, for allegedly starting a fire that destroyed multiple homes in Phoenix and merged with the Almeda Drive Fire. A separate criminal investigation into the origin point of the Almeda Drive Fire in Ashland is ongoing.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
Around September 11–12, wildfires were starting to encroach upon the Clackamas County suburbs of Portland, Oregon, especially the fast-moving Riverside Fire which had already jumped the nearby community of Estacada, but shifting wind directions kept the fire away from the main Portland area.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Growth of fires
Through much of September, at least 8 large wildfires, each of 100,000 acres (400 km2) or more, were burning in Washington and Oregon, with 3 in Washington and 5 in Oregon. This was unprecedented for those two states, which combined only saw a total of 26 large fires from 1997 to 2019. On September 22, 10 large fires, each of at least 100,000 acres, were burning across California, including 5 of the 10 largest wildfires in the state's history.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Timeline of events, Evacuations
The first evacuations began on September 4, when almost 200 people were airlifted out of the Sierra National Forest due to the rapidly exploding Creek Fire. Then on September 9, most of the southern area of the city of Medford, Oregon was forced to evacuate and almost all of the 80,000 residents living in the city were told to be ready if necessary because of the uncontained Almeda Drive Fire, which was fast encroaching on their city. As of September 11, about 40,000 people in Oregon had been instructed to evacuate, and 500,000, accounting for about 10% of the state's population, had received instructions to prepare for evacuation, being under a Level 1, 2, or 3 fire evacuation alert.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, List of wildfires
The following is a list of fires that burned more than 1,000 acres (405 ha) or produced significant structural damage or casualties.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Causes, Fire policy
Prior to development, California fires regularly burned significantly more acreage than in recent history. Wildfires have been aggressively suppressed in the last century, resulting in a buildup of fuel, increasing the risk of large uncontrollable fires. There is broad scientific consensus that there should be more controlled burning of forest in California in order to reduce fire risk. Controlled burning is hampered by wildfire litigation models that present wildfires in court cases as the result of careless ignition events while discounting underlying forest conditions. A 2020 ProPublica investigation blamed the culture of Cal Fire, greed on the part of fire suppression contractors, and risk aversion on the part of the U.S. Forest Service from preventing appropriate controlled burns from taking place.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Causes, Climate change
Climate change has led to increased heat waves and the risk of drought in California, creating the conditions for more frequent and severe wildfires. It has been observed that since the early 1970s, warm‐season days in California warmed by ca. 1.4 °C. This significantly increases the atmospheric vapor pressure deficit, the difference between the actual and a maximum moisture content for a certain temperature. Trends simulated by climate models are consistent with human-induced trends. Summer forest‐fire area reacts to the vapor pressure deficit exponentially, i.e., warming has grown increasingly impactful.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Causes, Climate change
David Romps, director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center summarizes the situation as follows: "To cut to the chase: Were the heat wave and the lightning strikes and the dryness of the vegetation affected by global warming? Absolutely yes. Were they made significantly hotter, more numerous, and drier because of global warming? Yes, likely yes, and yes." Similarly, Friederike Otto, acting director of the University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute states, "There is absolutely no doubt that the extremely high temperatures are higher than they would have been without human-induced climate change.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Causes, Climate change
A huge body of attribution literature demonstrates now that climate change is an absolute game-changer when it comes to heat waves, and California won't be the exception." Susan Clark, director of the Sustainability Initiative at the University at Buffalo, states, "This is climate change. This increased intensity and frequency of temperatures and heat waves are part of the projections for the future. [ ...] There is going to be more morbidity and mortality [from heat.] There are going to be more extremes."


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Causes, Arson
In August 2020, a suspect was charged by the Monterey County Sheriff with arson relating to the Dolan Fire; however, this has not been officially determined as the cause of the fire. In April 2021, another suspect, already arrested and charged for the murder of a woman, was charged with arson relating to the Markley Fire, one of the wildfires involving in the LNU Lightning Complex fires; according to authorities, the fire was set to cover up the aforementioned murder. Arson has also been suspected as the cause of the Ranch 2 Fire in Los Angeles County.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Obstacles to fire control, Rumors about political extremist involvement
In Oregon, false rumors spread that Antifa activists allegedly involved in arson and rioting accompanying the nearby George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon, were deliberately setting fires and were preparing to loot property that was being evacuated. Some residents refused to evacuate based on the rumors. Authorities urged residents to ignore the rumors and follow evacuation orders, noting that firefighters' lives could be endangered rescuing those who remained.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Obstacles to fire control, Rumors about political extremist involvement
QAnon followers participated in spreading the rumors, with one claim that six antifa activists had been arrested for setting fires specifically amplified by "Q", the anonymous person or people behind QAnon. Days earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr had amplified social media rumors of preceding months that planes and buses full of antifa activists were preparing to invade communities.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Obstacles to fire control, Rumors about political extremist involvement
Rumors also circulated that members of far-right groups such as the Proud Boys had started some of the fires. However, authorities labelled the claims as false, saying that people needed to question claims they found on social media.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Obstacles to fire control, Rumors about political extremist involvement
There have been a number of arrests for arson surrounding the wildfires, but there is no indication that the incidents were connected to a mass arson campaign, according to multiple law enforcement officers. For example, a man allegedly set fires in Glide, Oregon, after a Douglas Forest Protection Association member refused to give him a ride to town.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Obstacles to fire control, COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges for firefighters fighting wildfires due to measures intended to reduce the transmission of the disease. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL Fire) implemented new protocols such as wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing while resting, and reducing the number of occupants in the pickup trucks used to transport firefighters.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Obstacles to fire control, COVID-19 pandemic
California relies heavily on inmate firefighters, with incarcerated people making up nearly a quarter of CAL FIRE's total workforce in 2018–2019. Coronavirus measures within the prison system, such as early release and quarantine policies, have reduced the number of inmate firefighters available, necessitating the hiring of additional seasonal firefighters.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Fire
In Oregon, wildfires throughout the whole year, with most occurring in September, charred a record of 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km2), destroying a total of 4,800 structures, including 1,145 homes, and killing 9 people. In Washington, 2020 wildfires burned 800,000 acres (3,200 km2), with 418 structures, including 195 homes, burned. In California, about 3,300,000 acres (13,000 km2) burned from wildfires in 2020, the highest burned acreage ever recorded in a fire season. About 2,100,000 acres (8,500 km2) burned in the August lighting wildfires and 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km2) more in September. 4,200 structures were destroyed the whole year in California, and 25 people were killed.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Smoke and air pollution
The fires resulted in worsened air pollution across much of the western U.S. and Canada, from Los Angeles to British Columbia. Alaska Airlines suspended its flights from Portland, Oregon, and Spokane, Washington, due to poor air quality. Some cities in Oregon recorded air quality readings of over 500 on the AQI scale, while readings of over 200 were recorded in major cities. Smoke from the fires were carried to the East Coast and Europe, causing yellowed skies but having little impact on air quality.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Smoke and air pollution
The heavy smoke had resulted in several smoke-related incidents. In California, for example, a San Francisco resident was hiking through Yosemite National Park on September 5 when suddenly the sky turned a dark, ugly color and the temperature dropped greatly, reminiscent of a thunderstorm. Ash and smoke started falling, and this erratic weather was caused by the nearby Creek Fire. In another incident, on September 14, an Oakland A's player was at a game at the Seattle Mariners' stadium, when suddenly in the middle of the game he started gasping for air.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Smoke and air pollution
It is estimated that as many as 1,200 to 3,000 indirect deaths have been caused by the adverse effects of smoke inhalation.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Smoke and air pollution
Red skies have appeared over many cities over the West Coast, due to smoke from the wildfires blocking lighter colors, created from light infraction. Due to the complex oxidative chemistry occurring during the transport of wildfire smoke in the atmosphere, the toxicity of emissions was suggested to increase over time.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Smoke and air pollution
Smoke from the North Complex Fire settles over San Francisco, turning the midday sky a dark orange on September 9


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Smoke and air pollution
Air pollution obscuring the skyline of Seattle, Washington on September 11


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Smoke and air pollution
Haze in the upper atmosphere of New York City on September 16


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Ecological effects
The unique sagebrush scrub habitat of the Columbia Basin in Washington was heavily affected by the fires, devastating populations of the endemic Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit and endangered, isolated populations of greater sage-grouse and Columbian sharp-tailed grouse. About half of the pygmy rabbit population and over 30-70% of the grouse population may have been lost to the fires, reversing decades of conservation work. Aside from climate change, the spread of the fires may have been assisted by the intrusion of invasive cheatgrass into the habitats. Fires in old-growth forests of Oregon may negatively affect the populations of the endangered northern spotted owl and pine marten, and the resulting ash from the fires may be washed into streams and threaten endangered salmon. Climate change also reduces the likelihood of forests re-establishing themselves after a fire.


2020 Western United States wildfire season, Impacts, Ecological effects
The Cassia Crossbill may lose half its population due to the pending consequences of the wildfires, one of which engulfed a large portion of the South Hills, one of the only two strongholds for the bird.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
The 2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship is the 116th edition of the Westmeath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Westmeath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner not going on to represent Westmeath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship this year due to the latter competition's cancellation. The championship was originally planned to start with a seeded group stage and then progress to a knock out stage, however due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic this format had to be changed. Instead, teams were drawn into four groups of three teams, before progressing to a knock-out stage.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
Garrycastle were the defending champions after defeating St. Loman's Mullingar in the previous years final. The defence of their title came undone however at the ??? stage, when losing to The Downs.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
This was Caulry's return to the senior grade after at two year exodus (since their relegation in 2017) when claiming the Westmeath I.F.C. title in 2019, defeating Milltownpass in the final.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
On ?? October 2020, ??? claimed their ?th S.F.C. title when they defeated ??? in the final at Cusack Park.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
??? were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2021 when losing their Relegation Final. This ended their ??? year stay in the top-flight of Westmeath club football.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
The draws for this years S.F.C. took place on 28 June 2020.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2019 championship season.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Group stage
All 12 teams enter the competition at this stage. The format employed in 2019 was not used this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but will be re-introduced again in 2021. This year, teams were drawn into 4 groups called Group A, B, C and D. The top two finishers in each group will qualify for the Quarter-Finals. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Play Off.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Relegation Play Off
The four bottom finishers from each group qualify for the Relegation Play-Off. The team to lose both matches will be relegated to the 2021 I.F.C.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals
The winners and runners up of each group qualify for the Quarter-Finals. The 4 winners will proceed to the Semi-Finals. While the 4 losers will be eliminated from the championship, they will face each other in a "2021 Group A Play-Off" to decide which two teams will be seeded in the top group for the 2021 S.F.C.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals, 2021 Group A Play-Off
The two winners of this round will be seeded in the Group A for the 2021 S.F.C. The two losers will be seeded in Group B of the 2020 S.F.C.


2020 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Semi-Finals
The four Quarter-Final winners took place in this years Semi-Finals.


2020 Westmeath Senior Hurling Championship
The 2020 Westmeath Senior Hurling Championship was the 116th staging of the Westmeath Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Westmeath County Board in 1903. The championship began on 26 July 2020 and ended on 4 October 2020.


2020 Westmeath Senior Hurling Championship
The final was played on 4 October 2020 at TEG Cusack Park, between Clonkill and Castletown Geoghegan, in what was their second successive meeting in a final. Clonkill won the match by 3-16 to 2-16 - the first ever to be settled in extra time - to claim their 17th championship title overall and a third title in succession.


2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship
The 2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship is the 122nd edition of the Wexford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Wexford, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Wexford in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage. Due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the group format was modified to utilise four groups with three teams each.


2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship
Castletown were the defending champions after they defeated Gusserane O'Rahillys in the previous years final to claim their 11th S.F.C. title. The defence of their title this season however came undone at the ??? stage when succumbing to ?? ?.


2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship
This was HWH Bunclody's return to the senior grade after an 11-year exodus when claiming the 2019 Wexford I.F.C. title, with a final victory over Crossabeg-Ballymurn. Their previous 32-year tenure in the top-flight came to an end in 2008, when losing out to Duffry Rovers in the Relegation Final that year.


2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship
On ?? October 2020, ??? claimed their ? ?th Wexford S.F.C. crown when defeating ??? in the final at Wexford Park.


2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship
??? were relegated to the 2021 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Final to ???. This ended their ?? year stay in the senior ranks since their promotion in ?? ?.


2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2019 championship season.


2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Group stage
There are 4 groups called Group A, B, C and D. The top finisher in each group will qualify for the Semi-Finals. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Play Off.


2020 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Relegation Play Off
The four bottom finishers from each group qualify for the Relegation Play-Off. The team to lose both matches will be relegated to the 2021 I.F.C.


2020 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
The 2020 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship was the 110th staging of the Wexford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Wexford County Board in 1889. The original championship draw took place on 17 February 2020, however, due to the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland the draws for a rescheduled championship took place on 22 June 2020 with a new format being adopted. The championship eventually began on 17 July 2020 and ended on 23 August 2020.


2020 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
St. Martin's were the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Glynn-Barntown at the quarter-final stage.


2020 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
On 23 August 2020, Shelmaliers won the championship after a 3-18 to 3-11 win over Naomh Éanna in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 2014.


2020 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship, Revised format
The championship originally featured two groups of six team but was redrawn to consist of four groups of three teams. The redrawn groups were decided by an open draw. Relegation for the 2020 season will be abolished.


2020 Wheeling, West Virginia municipal election
The 2020 Wheeling, West Virginia municipal election was held on June 9, 2020, to elect members of the city council and mayor.


2020 Wheeling, West Virginia municipal election, Background
On April 7, 2020, legislation was proposed at a virtual city council meeting to postpone Wheeling's municipal election from May 12 to June 9, to coincide with West Virginia's primary election.


2020 Wheeling, West Virginia municipal election, City council, Ward 3
On July 12, 2019, Ketchum announced that she would seek elected to the Wheeling city council from Ward 3. On June 9, 2020, she won the election against Peggy Niebergall, Jerome Henry, and Erick Marple, becoming the first transgender person elected to political office in West Virginia. Following her victory she was praised by Annise Parker, the former Mayor of Houston, Texas, and congratulated by GLAAD.


2020 Wigan Warriors season
The 2020 season is Wigan Warriors's 40th consecutive season playing in England's top division of rugby league. During the season, they competed in the Super League XXV and the 2020 Challenge Cup.


2020 Wigan Warriors season, Preseason  friendlies
The 2020 pre-season saw three matches played including a testimonial, against Leeds Rhinos, for academy graduate Liam Farrell who has been playing for the first team since the 2010 season. The first match against the London Skolars was a continuation of an anual event between the Warriors and Skolars, resulting in a 70-6 win by the away side. The second match against the Leeds Rhinos resulted in a 10-22 loss for Wigan. The final match against derby rivals Leigh Centurions, ended in a 6-12 loss for the Warriors.


2020 William & Mary Tribe football team
The 2020 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tribe, led by second-year head coach Mike London, play their home games at Zable Stadium.


2020 William & Mary Tribe football team
On July 17, 2020, the CAA announced that it would not play fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference allowed the option for teams to play as independents for the 2020 season if they still wished to play in the fall.


2020 William & Mary Tribe football team, Previous season
The Tribe finished the 2019 season 5–7, 3–5 in CAA play to finish in a tie for ninth place.


2020 William & Mary Tribe football team, Schedule
William & Mary had games scheduled against Stanford (September 5), Colgate (September 12), and Lafayette (September 19), which were all later canceled before the start of the 2020 season. The CAA released its spring conference schedule on October 27, 2020.


2020 Wilmington mayoral election
The 2020 Wilmington mayoral election was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, to elect the mayor of Wilmington, Delaware. Incumbent mayor Mike Purzycki is running for re-election to a second term. Mike Purzycki first won election in 2016 with 82.2% of the vote.


2020 Wimbledon Championships
The 2020 Wimbledon Championships was a cancelled Grand Slam tennis tournament scheduled to be played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom, between 29 June and 12 July, 2020. It was never played because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellation of the tournament was announced on 1 April 2020. This was the first time that a Grand Slam event had been cancelled after World War 2.


2020 Wimbledon Championships, History
The All England Club exercised an insurance plan covering infectious diseases, reportedly claiming over £100 million for the cancellation. £10m was distributed to the 620 players whose rankings would have been high enough for them to enter the tournament had it taken place.


2020 Wimbledon Championships, History
It was the first time the tournament had been cancelled since 1945 during World War II. Had it gone ahead, it would have been the 134th edition of the Wimbledon Championships.


2020 Wimbledon Championships, History
Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep were the defending champions in the men's and women's singles draw.


2020 Wimbledon Championships, History
Following the cancellation, BBC the host broadcaster of this event since 1937 decided to air classic games as a replacement programme.


2020 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season
The 2020 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season was scheduled to be the 63rd season for the team in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and their 88th season overall. The Blue Bombers would have entered the season as the defending Grey Cup champions for the first time in 29 years, having ended the franchise's lengthy drought with the previous year's championship win in the 107th Grey Cup game. This would have been the seventh season under head coach Mike O'Shea and the seventh full season under general manager Kyle Walters.


2020 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season
Training camps, pre-season games, and regular season games were initially postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Manitoba. The CFL announced on April 7, 2020 that the start of the 2020 season would not occur before July 2020. On May 20, 2020, it was announced that the league would likely not begin regular season play prior to September 2020. On August 17, 2020, however, the season was officially cancelled due to COVID-19.


2020 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Offseason, CFL National Draft
The 2020 CFL National Draft took place on April 30, 2020. By virtue of finishing as Grey Cup champions in the previous season, the Blue Bombers selected last in each round of the eight-round draft, not including any traded picks. The team made one trade, acquiring Grey Cup starting quarterback, Zach Collaros, and a fifth-round pick from the Toronto Argonauts for the Blue Bombers' third-round pick and a conditional pick. The condition of that trade was whether Collaros re-signed with Winnipeg, which he did, meaning that the Blue Bombers sent their first-round selection to the Argonauts. On August 17 however, the season was officially cancelled due to COVID-19.


2020 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Offseason, CFL Global Draft
The 2020 CFL Global Draft was scheduled to take place on April 16, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this draft and its accompanying combine were postponed to occur just before the start of training camp, which was ultimately cancelled. The Blue Bombers were scheduled to select ninth in each round with the number of rounds never announced.


2020 Winston-Salem mayoral election
The 2020 Winston-Salem mayoral election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.


2020 Winter Cup
The 2020 Winter Cup was an artistic gymnastics competition held at the Westgate Las Vegas in Las Vegas from February 20 to February 22, 2020.


2020 Winter Cup, Competition
The competition featured both junior and senior competitive divisions. The finals session featured the top 28 senior athletes based on the 10-point system and the top 14 juniors from the Elite Team Cup. Junior athletes advanced to the finals according to the all-around ranking from the first day of competition. All-around ranking and individual event champions were determined via a combined two-day score.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics
The 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games (German: Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2020; French: Jeux olympiques de la jeunesse d'hiver de 2020; Italian: Giochi olimpici giovanili invernali del 2020; Romansh: Gieus olimpics da giuvenils d'enviern 2020), officially known as the III Winter Youth Olympic Games and commonly known as Lausanne 2020 (Italian and Romansh: Losanna 2020), was the third edition of the Winter Youth Olympics; a major international multi-sport event and cultural festival for teenagers that was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, the home of the International Olympic Committee, between 9 and 22 January 2020.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Bidding process
The bidding calendar was announced by the IOC on 6 June 2013, with the application deadline set for 28 November 2013. Lausanne (Switzerland) and Brașov (Romania) were only two cities that submitted  the bids and were selected as the final candidates.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Bidding process, Host city selection
The IOC voted to select the host city of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics on 31 July 2015 at the 128th IOC Session at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Lausanne was selected by 71 votes to 10, as it got at least 41 votes needed for a majority.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics, The Games, Sports
The Youth Olympic Games will feature 8 sports and 16 disciplines. 81 events, there will be 13 mixed team events (NOCs), 34 men's events, and 34 women's events. Ski mountaineering and women's Nordic combined will feature for the first time in an Olympic event. A mixed-NOC 3-on-3 ice hockey tournament and a women's doubles event in luge will also be contested for the first time.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics, The Games, Participating National Olympic Committees
A total of 1,788 athletes from 79 nations qualified, the most for any edition of a Winter Youth Olympics. 12 NOC's are scheduled to make their Winter Youth Olympics debuts: Albania, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Haiti, Hong Kong, Kosovo, Pakistan, Qatar, Singapore, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turkmenistan. Haiti, Qatar and Turkmenistan have also never competed at the Winter Olympics.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics, The Games, Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games took place on the evening of Thursday 9 January 2020 at the Vaudoise Aréna, in Lausanne.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics, The Games, Closing Ceremony
The closing ceremony of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games took place on the evening of Thursday 22 January 2020 at the Medals Plaza Lausanne. The ceremony featured the flag handover from mayor of Lausanne Grégoire Junod to IOC President Thomas Bach and to the governor of Gangwon Choi Moon-soon as host of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics and the extinguishing of the Youth Olympic flame.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Marketing, Mascot
Yodli the official mascot was unveiled on 8 January 2019 at CIG de Malley before match between Lausanne HC and HC Davos. Yodli is inspired by a combination of a cow, a Saint Bernard dog, and a goat, and was created by ERACOM. Blue represents the Swiss lakes.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Marketing, Tickets
It was announced that all events apart from the opening ceremony would be free to watch in January 2020.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table
The 2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 9 to 22 January 2020.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table
Noa Szollos was the first Israeli athlete to win a Winter Olympics medal. On the 10th of January, Noa finished the girls' Super-G event in alpine skiing in third place and the next day she finished in second place in combined event. This also happened with Georgia who won its first medal in a Winter Olympics event, a bronze was won in the figure skating pair event by the skaters Alina Butaeva and Luka Berulava. An unprecedented case happened in boys' mass start speed skating when the Colombian skater Diego Amaya won the silver medal. This was the first time in history that an athlete from a tropical nation and a Latin American won a medal at an Olympic winter event.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table
Kelly Sildaru was the first Estonian athlete to win a gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games, in  freestyle skiing slopestyle event. Liechtenstein also won its first bronze medal in the history of the Youth Olympic Games, a bronze medal won by Quentin Sanzo in bobsleigh.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table
Spaniard Maria Costa Diez also made history as she won the first Winter Olympics gold medal for her country since alpine skiing slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics won by Francisco Fernández Ochoa. Costa Diez won the sprint event at the ski mountaineering.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table, Medal table
By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.


2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table, Medal table
In the Boys' combined event in alpine skiing, two gold medals were awarded for a first place tie. No silver medal was awarded for the event. In the Boys' monobob on bobsleigh, also two gold medals were awarded for a first place tie, and no silver medal was awarded.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Badgers were led by sixth-year head coach Paul Chryst and competed as members of the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They played their home games at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team
On August 11, 2020, the Big Ten Conference suspended all fall sports competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, on September 16, the Big Ten reinstated the season, announcing an eight-game season beginning on October 24.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Previous season
The 2019 team started the year nineteenth in the pre-season AP Poll. The team finished with two regular season losses, and were invited to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 2012 to play Oregon. The Badgers lost the game and finished the year at 10–4.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Preseason, Spring game
The Badgers spring scrimmage and practice on April 18, 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Preseason, Preseason Big Ten poll
Although the Big Ten Conference has not held an official preseason poll since 2010, Cleveland.com has polled sports journalists representing all member schools as a de facto preseason media poll since 2011. For the 2020 poll, Wisconsin was projected to finish first in the West Division.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule, Games canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
The Badgers 2020 schedule originally consisted of six home games, four away games, and two neutral site games. The Badgers would have hosted two of its three non-conference games at Camp Randall; the first on September 12 against Southern Illinois from the Missouri Valley, then the next week on September 19, playing Appalachian State, a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The last non-conference matchup on October 3 was a primetime game guaranteed to air on NBC against Notre Dame as part of the Fighting Irish's neutral-site Shamrock Series at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, with Notre Dame as the designated home team.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule, Games canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
The Big Ten Conference canceled all non-conference games on July 9 due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the day before, the November 7 away game at Northwestern was moved from the neutral site Wrigley Field in Chicago back to Ryan Field in Evanston. Both Notre Dame and Wisconsin plan to fulfill their contract and play the Lambeau Field game in a subsequent season.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule, Games canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
On November 25, Wisconsin's game vs. Minnesota was canceled, leaving the team with only 5 games maximum and thus making the Badgers no longer eligible for the 2020 Big Ten Football Championship Game.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule, Current schedule
In Big Ten Conference play, Wisconsin will play all members of the West Division, and draws Indiana, and Michigan from the East Division.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule, Current schedule
*Wisconsin's game with Nebraska was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Wisconsin. The game will not be rescheduled. Instead, both teams will have a bye and will have just seven games.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule, Current schedule
*Wisconsin's game with Purdue was cancelled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Wisconsin. The game will not be rescheduled. Instead, Wisconsin will have a bye and will have just six games, and Purdue will have a bye and will have just seven games.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Schedule, Current schedule
*Wisconsin's game with Minnesota was initially cancelled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Wisconsin. The game was eventually rescheduled for Big Ten Championship weekend.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Game summaries, at Nebraska (Cancelled)
The Wisconsin at Nebraska game was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Wisconsin. The game will not be rescheduled. Instead, both teams will have a bye and will play just seven games.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Game summaries, Purdue (Cancelled)
The Purdue at Wisconsin game was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Wisconsin. The game will not be rescheduled.


2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota (Rescheduled)
The Minnesota at Wisconsin game was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Minnesota. The game was rescheduled for December 19 at 3:00 p.m..


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary
The 2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary took place on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice election. It is one of the Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The Wisconsin primary is an open primary, with the state awarding 97 delegates, of which 84 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary. Although in-person voting took place on April 7, full results were not released until April 13, in accordance with a district court ruling.


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary
As of the primary on April 7, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders were the only candidates left in the race. However, the next morning, before any of Wisconsin's results were released, Sanders dropped out of the race, leaving Biden as the party's presumed presidential nominee. Sanders previously won Wisconsin, in the 2016 primaries.


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
Wisconsin was the only state that voted on April 7, 2020, in the Democratic primaries.


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
Voting took place throughout the state from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. In the open primary, candidates must meet a threshold of 15% at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 84 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of the 77 pledged delegates, between 5 and 11 are allocated to each of the state's 8 congressional districts and another 10 are allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 29 at-large pledged delegates. These delegate totals do not account for pledged delegate bonuses or penalties from timing or clustering.


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure
On Sunday, April 26, 2020, county caucuses will select delegates for congressional district caucuses which will take place on Sunday, May 17, 2020, which in turn designate national convention district-level delegates. The administrative committee meeting before the state convention will subsequently be on Friday, June 12, 2020, to vote on the 29 pledged at-large and 10 PLEO delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention. The 77 pledged delegates Wisconsin sends to the national convention will be joined by 13 unpledged PLEO delegates (eight members of the Democratic National Committee; four members of Congress, including one Senator and 3 U.S. Representatives; and the governor).


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure, COVID-19 pandemic
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, several states delayed their scheduled primaries and extended the vote-by-mail period. Concerns were raised by health officials, poll workers, and voters that in-person voting at the height of the pandemic would be unsafe for vulnerable individuals. Governor Tony Evers (D) signed an executive order for all-mail-in election, but the order was rejected by the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature.


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure, COVID-19 pandemic
On April 2, although U.S. District Judge William M. Conley refused to postpone the election, he extended the deadline for absentee voting to April 13 (ordering clerks not to release any election data before that date). However, on April 6, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Conley's decision, meaning that all absentee ballots must still be postmarked by "election day, Tuesday, April 7" even though it will still be acceptable for the ballots to be received by the clerks as late as April 13. The Supreme Court of the United States "did not alter the provision in Conley's amended order which prohibits the reporting of results until April 13".


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure, COVID-19 pandemic
Governor Evers then called a special session of the legislature to postpone in-person voting, but the session ended within minutes without action, forcing the primary to go on as planned.


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure, COVID-19 pandemic
Despite having previously expressed the view that he would violate the law by doing so, on April 6, Evers issued an executive order which, if enforced, would have postponed the April 7 elections until the tentative date of June 9. Republican leaders immediately announced that they would challenge the order in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Evers did not have the authority to postpone the elections, thus meaning that Evers' executive order was nullified, and that the elections would be held as scheduled on April 7.


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure, COVID-19 pandemic
This was appealed to a federal court who sided with the Governor, and that was appealed to the US Supreme Court, which on a 5–4 vote, upheld the State court's ruling.


2020 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, Procedure, COVID-19 pandemic
Voting was somewhat chaotic, with people waiting in the rain for hours in some cases in masks and social distancing. However, by the time the election concluded, Milwaukee Election Commissioner Neil Albrecht stated that despite some of the problems, the in-person voting ran smoothly.


2020 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary
The 2020 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary took place on April 7, 2020. It is one of the Republican Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election.


2020 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The April 7 primary elections and the election for a state Supreme Court justice and other local races ran as scheduled. Many poll workers have not wanted to put their health at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin, and polling places across the state faced a shortage of workers. Health officials were concerned about enforcing social distancing guidelines. Governor Tony Evers (D) proposed changing to an all-mail-in election, but the idea was rejected by the Republican-controlled legislature.


2020 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Despite admitting that he would violate the law by doing so, Evers then issued an executive order on April 6 to postpone the election to June 9. Republican leaders immediately announced that they would challenge the order in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Evers did not have the authority to postpone the elections, thus meaning that Evers' executive order was nullified, and that the elections would be held as scheduled on April 7. By the time the election concluded, Milwaukee Election Commissioner Neil Albrecht stated that despite some of the problems, the in-person voting ran smoothly.


2020 Wisconsin State Assembly election
The Wisconsin State Assembly elections of 2020 were held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. All 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly were up for election. 13 incumbent Assembly members have filed papers declaring that they will not run for re-election, including two who announced early vacancies. Right before this election, 63 Assembly seats were held by Republicans, 34 seats were held by Democrats, and two seats were vacant (both seats were vacated by Democrats).


2020 Wisconsin State Senate election
The 2020 Wisconsin State Senate elections were taking place as part of the biennial 2020 United States elections. Wisconsin voters elected state senators in 16 of the state's 33 senate districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Wisconsin State Senate, with roughly half of the seats up for election every two years. The primary elections on August 11, 2020, determined which candidates will appear on the November 3, 2020, general election ballot.


2020 Wisconsin State Senate election
Following the previous election in 2018 and two announced vacancies (one from each party), Republicans had control of the Wisconsin State Senate with 18 seats against 13 held by Democrats. In the general election, Republicans picked up an open seat and defeated a Democratic incumbent to gain two seats in the chamber, leading to a 21-12 majority.


2020 Wisconsin elections
The 2020 Wisconsin Fall General Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 3, 2020. All of Wisconsin's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election, as well as sixteen seats in the Wisconsin State Senate and all 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Voters also chose ten electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which then participated in selecting the president of the United States. The 2020 Fall Partisan Primary was held on August 11, 2020.


2020 Wisconsin elections
In the Fall general election, the Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, won Wisconsin's ten electoral votes, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump. There was no change to the partisan makeup of Wisconsin's congressional delegation. Republicans gained two seats in the Wisconsin Senate; Democrats gained two seats in the Wisconsin Assembly.


2020 Wisconsin elections
The 2020 Wisconsin Spring Election was held April 7, 2020. This election featured a contested race for Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Presidential preference primary for both major political parties, as well as various nonpartisan local and judicial offices. The date of this election and deadline to submit absentee ballots became a matter of controversy amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin. The 2020 Wisconsin Spring Primary was held February 18, 2020.


2020 Wisconsin elections
Wisconsin Democrats celebrated the results of the April election with the victory of their preferred candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, reducing the conservative majority on the court to 4–3. The Democrats' preferred candidate also won re-election on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.


2020 Wisconsin elections
In the Wisconsin Democratic presidential preference primary, Vice President Joe Biden won an overwhelming victory. This was the last primary of the 2020 Democratic nominating contest before Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his 2020 campaign. In the Wisconsin Republican presidential preference primary, incumbent President Donald Trump was unopposed. Wisconsin voters also approved an amendment to the Constitution of Wisconsin known popularly as Marsy's Law, intended to grant new rights to victims of crimes.


2020 Wisconsin elections
A special election was held on May 12, 2020, to fill the vacancy in Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. The Republican candidate won the special election, causing no change to the congressional delegation's partisan makeup. The primary for this election was held concurrent with the spring primary on February 18.


2020 Wisconsin elections, Election information, April election, Effects of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
In Wisconsin, a swing state with a Democratic governor and a Republican legislature, an April 7 election for a state Supreme Court seat, the federal presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and several other judicial and local elections went ahead as scheduled.


2020 Wisconsin elections, Election information, April election, Effects of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Due to the pandemic, at least fifteen other U.S. states cancelled or postponed scheduled elections or primaries at the time of Wisconsin's election. With Wisconsin grappling with their own pandemic, state Democratic lawmakers made several attempts to postpone their election, but were prevented by other Republican legislators. Governor Tony Evers called the Wisconsin legislature into an April 4 special session, but the Republican-controlled Assembly and Senate graveled their sessions in and out within seventeen seconds. In a joint statement afterwards, Wisconsin's state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald criticized Evers for attempting to postpone the election, for not calling a special session earlier, and for reversing his previous position on keeping the election date intact.