diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index a9b00640f9d..9a2a1aa69c3 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -2060,7 +2060,13 @@ class StringIO(TextIOWrapper):
 
     def getvalue(self):
         self.flush()
-        return self.buffer.getvalue().decode(self._encoding, self._errors)
+        decoder = self._decoder or self._get_decoder()
+        old_state = decoder.getstate()
+        decoder.reset()
+        try:
+            return decoder.decode(self.buffer.getvalue(), final=True)
+        finally:
+            decoder.setstate(old_state)
 
     def __repr__(self):
         # TextIOWrapper tells the encoding in its repr. In StringIO,
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py b/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
index 50c91ab20da..6a902b388d2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
@@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ class TextIOTestMixin:
         self.assertEqual(3, memio.write("c\rd"))
         memio.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(memio.read(), "a\nb\nc\nd")
+        self.assertEqual(memio.getvalue(), "a\nb\nc\nd")
         memio = self.ioclass("a\r\nb", newline=None)
         self.assertEqual(memio.read(3), "a\nb")
 
@@ -562,6 +563,7 @@ class TextIOTestMixin:
         self.assertEqual(memio.read(4), "a\nb\r")
         self.assertEqual(memio.read(2), "\nc")
         self.assertEqual(memio.read(1), "\r")
+        self.assertEqual(memio.getvalue(), "a\nb\r\nc\rd")
         memio = self.ioclass(newline="")
         self.assertEqual(2, memio.write("a\n"))
         self.assertEqual(2, memio.write("b\r"))
@@ -581,6 +583,9 @@ class TextIOTestMixin:
         self.assertEqual(memio.read(), "a\rb\r\rc\rd")
         memio.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(list(memio), ["a\r", "b\r", "\r", "c\r", "d"])
+        memio.seek(0)
+        self.assertEqual(memio.readlines(), ["a\r", "b\r", "\r", "c\r", "d"])
+        self.assertEqual(memio.getvalue(), "a\rb\r\rc\rd")
 
     def test_newline_crlf(self):
         # newline="\r\n"
@@ -588,11 +593,15 @@ class TextIOTestMixin:
         self.assertEqual(memio.read(), "a\r\nb\r\r\nc\rd")
         memio.seek(0)
         self.assertEqual(list(memio), ["a\r\n", "b\r\r\n", "c\rd"])
+        memio.seek(0)
+        self.assertEqual(memio.readlines(), ["a\r\n", "b\r\r\n", "c\rd"])
+        self.assertEqual(memio.getvalue(), "a\r\nb\r\r\nc\rd")
 
     def test_issue5265(self):
         # StringIO can duplicate newlines in universal newlines mode
         memio = self.ioclass("a\r\nb\r\n", newline=None)
         self.assertEqual(memio.read(5), "a\nb\n")
+        self.assertEqual(memio.getvalue(), "a\nb\n")
 
     def test_newline_argument(self):
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.ioclass, newline=b"\n")
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index eccd6157b1a..66137276a1c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
+  translation settings.
+
 - Issue #20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser.
 
 - Issue #20424: Python implementation of io.StringIO now supports lone surrogates.