United States presidential elections in Colorado
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{{Infobox U.S. presidential elections by state
| state = Colorado
| number_of_elections = 38
| voted_democratic = 15
| voted_republican = 22
| voted_other = 1{{efn|James B. Weaver, 1892.}}
| voted_winning = 26
| voted_losing = 12
}}
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Colorado, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1876, Colorado has participated in every U.S. presidential election.
Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.
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| x = 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024
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data-sort-type="number" | Year
! Winner (nationally) ! data-sort-type="number" | Votes ! data-sort-type="number" | Percent ! Runner-up (nationally) ! data-sort-type="number" | Votes ! data-sort-type="number" | Percent ! Other national ! data-sort-type="number" | Votes ! data-sort-type="number" | Percent ! data-sort-type="number" | Electoral ! class="unsortable" | Notes | |||||||||||
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{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 2024 | Donald Trump | 1,377,441 | 43.14 | Kamala Harris | 1,728,159 | 54.13 | — | 10 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 2020{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-president.html |title=Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins|work=The New York Times|date=3 November 2020 |access-date=November 15, 2020}} | Joe Biden | 1,804,196 | 55.40 | Donald Trump | 1,364,471 | 41.90 | — | 9 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 2016[https://transition.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/federalelections2016.pdf 2016 official Federal Election Commission report]. | Donald Trump{{efn|name="PV"|Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote}} | 1,202,484 | 43.25 | Hillary Clinton | 1,338,870 | 48.16 | 9 | ||||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 2012[http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.pdf 2012 official Federal Election Commission report]. | Barack Obama | 1,323,101 | 51.49 | Mitt Romney | 1,185,243 | 46.13 | — | 9 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 2008[http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/federalelections2008.pdf 2008 official Federal Election Commission report]. | Barack Obama | 1,288,633 | 53.66 | John McCain | 1,073,629 | 44.71 | — | 9 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 2004{{cite web|url= http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2004/federalelections2004.pdf |title= Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives|date=May 2005 |publisher= Federal Elections Commission}} | George W. Bush | 1,101,255 | 51.69 | John Kerry | 1,001,732 | 47.02 | — | 9 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 2000{{cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=2000&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=2000 Presidential Election Statistics|publisher=Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections}} | George W. Bush{{efn|name="PV"}} | 883,748 | 50.75 | Al Gore | 738,227 | 42.39 | — | 8 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1996{{cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1996&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=1996 Presidential Election Statistics|publisher=Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|access-date=2018-03-05}} | Bill Clinton | 671,152 | 44.43 | Bob Dole | 691,848 | 45.80 | Ross Perot | 99,629 | 6.59 | 8 | |
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1992 | Bill Clinton | 629,681 | 40.13 | George H. W. Bush | 562,850 | 35.87 | Ross Perot | 366,010 | 23.32 | 8 | |
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush | 728,177 | 53.06 | Michael Dukakis | 621,453 | 45.28 | — | 8 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan | 821,818 | 63.44 | Walter Mondale | 454,974 | 35.12 | — | 8 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan | 652,264 | 55.07 | Jimmy Carter | 367,973 | 31.07 | John B. Anderson | 130,633 | 11.03 | 7 | |
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter | 460,353 | 42.58 | Gerald Ford | 584,367 | 54.05 | — | 7 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1972 | Richard Nixon | 597,189 | 62.61 | George McGovern | 329,980 | 34.59 | — | 7 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1968 | Richard Nixon | 409,345 | 50.46 | Hubert Humphrey | 335,174 | 41.32 | George Wallace | 60,813 | 7.50 | 6 | |
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 476,024 | 61.27 | Barry Goldwater | 296,767 | 38.19 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy | 330,629 | 44.91 | Richard Nixon | 402,242 | 54.63 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 394,479 | 59.49 | Adlai Stevenson II | 263,997 | 39.81 | T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors{{efn|Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina}} | 759 | 0.11 | 6 | |
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 379,782 | 60.27 | Adlai Stevenson II | 245,504 | 38.96 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman | 267,288 | 51.88 | Thomas E. Dewey | 239,714 | 46.52 | Strom Thurmond | — | — | 6 | |
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 234,331 | 46.40 | Thomas E. Dewey | 268,731 | 53.21 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 265,554 | 48.37 | Wendell Willkie | 279,576 | 50.92 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 295,021 | 60.37 | Alf Landon | 181,267 | 37.09 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 250,877 | 54.81 | Herbert Hoover | 189,617 | 41.43 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover | 253,872 | 64.72 | Al Smith | 133,131 | 33.94 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 195,171 | 57.02 | John W. Davis | 75,238 | 21.98 | Robert M. La Follette | 69,945 | 20.44 | 6 | |
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding | 173,248 | 59.32 | James M. Cox | 104,936 | 35.93 | Parley P. Christensen | 3,016 | 1.03 | 6 | |
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 178,816 | 60.74 | Charles E. Hughes | 102,308 | 34.75 | — | 6 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 114,232 | 42.80 | Theodore Roosevelt | 72,306 | 27.09 | William H. Taft | 58,386 | 21.88 | 6 | |
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1908 | William H. Taft | 123,693 | 46.88 | William Jennings Bryan | 126,644 | 48.00 | — | 5 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | 134,661 | 55.26 | Alton B. Parker | 100,105 | 41.08 | — | 5 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1900 | William McKinley | 93,072 | 42.04 | William Jennings Bryan | 122,733 | 55.43 | — | 4 | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| 1896 | William McKinley | 26,271 | 13.86 | William Jennings Bryan | 161,005 | 84.95 | — | 4 | |||
{{Party shading/Populist}}
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland | no ballots | Benjamin Harrison | 38,620 | 41.13 | James B. Weaver | 53,584 | 57.07 | 4 | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison{{efn|name="PV"}} | 50,772 | 55.22 | Grover Cleveland | 37,549 | 40.84 | — | 3 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland | 27,723 | 41.68 | James G. Blaine | 36,084 | 54.25 | — | 3 | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1880 | James A. Garfield | 27,450 | 51.26 | Winfield S. Hancock | 24,647 | 46.03 | James B. Weaver | 1,435 | 2.68 | 3 | |
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes{{efn|name="PV"}} | n/a | n/a | Samuel J. Tilden | n/a | n/a | — | 3 | Allocated by state legislature.{{efn|Colorado was admitted to the union as the 38th state on August 1, 1876. With insufficient time or money to organize a presidential election in the new state, Colorado's state legislature selected the state’s electors. These electors in turn gave their three votes to Hayes and the Republican Party. This was the last election in which any state chose electors through its state legislature.}} |
See also
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References
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{{Colorado elections}}
{{United States presidential elections}}