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Arizona has participated in 28 United States presidential elections since its admission to the Union in February 1912. In the 1912 presidential election, the incumbent president William Howard Taft finished fourth in Arizona, receiving just 12.75 percent of the popular vote. The highest margin of victory ever in Arizona was in the 1936 presidential election, when the Democratic Party candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt (pictured) won Arizona, defeating the Republican Party candidate Alf Landon by 42.92 percent. Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential election, won Arizona, defeating the incumbent president Donald Trump by a close margin of 0.3 percent. Though Arizona has been considered a stronghold state for the Republican Party, recent political realignment has led some to consider Arizona as a swing state. (Full list...)