The 2020 presidential election pitted former Vice President Joe Biden against the incumbent President Donald Trump. In a very high turnout election, Illinois's twenty electoral votes easily went for Joe Biden, as expected, who received the most raw votes ever for a presidential candidate in the history of Illinois, outpacing even his former running mate, former President Barack Obama who received 3,419,348 votes in the 2008 election. Biden received 3,471,195 votes from Illinoisans who handed the Democratic Party their eighth consecutive victory in presidential elections in the state. Illinois has not voted Republican at the presidential level since 1988 when George H.W. Bush won the state. Trump won 88 of Illinois' 102 counties—mostly rural—but decisively lost the election by more than a million votes (the second largest raw vote total blowout in Illinois history) and a 16.99% margin, just 0.08% closer than his 2016 loss in the state. Turnout for this presidential election in Illinois was estimated at 72.14%, exceeding 70% turnout for the first time since 2008, and the highest turnout rate since 1992.