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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class="wikitable sortable"
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
candidates{{efn|For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.}}

! data-sort-type="number" | Votes

! data-sort-type="number" | Percent

! data-sort-type="number" | Electoral
votes

! class="unsortable" | Notes

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 2024

Donald Trump1,377,44143.14Kamala Harris1,728,15954.1310
{{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 Biden1,804,19655.40Donald Trump1,364,47141.909
{{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}}1,202,48443.25Hillary Clinton1,338,87048.169
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 2012[http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.pdf 2012 official Federal Election Commission report].

Barack Obama1,323,10151.49Mitt Romney1,185,24346.139
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 2008[http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/federalelections2008.pdf 2008 official Federal Election Commission report].

Barack Obama1,288,63353.66John McCain1,073,62944.719
{{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. Bush1,101,25551.69John Kerry1,001,73247.029
{{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"}}883,74850.75Al Gore738,22742.398
{{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 Clinton671,15244.43Bob Dole691,84845.80Ross Perot99,6296.598
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1992

Bill Clinton629,68140.13George H. W. Bush562,85035.87Ross Perot366,01023.328
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1988

George H. W. Bush728,17753.06Michael Dukakis621,45345.288
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1984

Ronald Reagan821,81863.44Walter Mondale454,97435.128
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1980

Ronald Reagan652,26455.07Jimmy Carter367,97331.07John B. Anderson130,63311.037
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1976

Jimmy Carter460,35342.58Gerald Ford584,36754.057
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1972

Richard Nixon597,18962.61George McGovern329,98034.597
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1968

Richard Nixon409,34550.46Hubert Humphrey335,17441.32George Wallace60,8137.506
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1964

Lyndon B. Johnson476,02461.27Barry Goldwater296,76738.196
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1960

John F. Kennedy330,62944.91Richard Nixon402,24254.636
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1956

Dwight D. Eisenhower394,47959.49Adlai Stevenson II263,99739.81T. Coleman Andrews/
Unpledged Electors{{efn|Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina}}
7590.116
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower379,78260.27Adlai Stevenson II245,50438.966
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1948

Harry S. Truman267,28851.88Thomas E. Dewey239,71446.52Strom Thurmond6
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1944

Franklin D. Roosevelt234,33146.40Thomas E. Dewey268,73153.216
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt265,55448.37Wendell Willkie279,57650.926
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1936

Franklin D. Roosevelt295,02160.37Alf Landon181,26737.096
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt250,87754.81Herbert Hoover189,61741.436
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1928

Herbert Hoover253,87264.72Al Smith133,13133.946
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1924

Calvin Coolidge195,17157.02John W. Davis75,23821.98Robert M. La Follette69,94520.446
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1920

Warren G. Harding173,24859.32James M. Cox104,93635.93Parley P. Christensen3,0161.036
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1916

Woodrow Wilson178,81660.74Charles E. Hughes102,30834.756
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1912

Woodrow Wilson114,23242.80Theodore Roosevelt72,30627.09William H. Taft58,38621.886
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1908

William H. Taft123,69346.88William Jennings Bryan126,64448.005
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1904

Theodore Roosevelt134,66155.26Alton B. Parker100,10541.085
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1900

William McKinley93,07242.04William Jennings Bryan122,73355.434
{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1896

William McKinley26,27113.86William Jennings Bryan161,00584.954
{{Party shading/Populist}}

| 1892

Grover Clevelandno ballotsBenjamin Harrison38,62041.13James B. Weaver53,58457.074
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1888

Benjamin Harrison{{efn|name="PV"}}50,77255.22Grover Cleveland37,54940.843
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1884

Grover Cleveland27,72341.68James G. Blaine36,08454.253
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1880

James A. Garfield27,45051.26Winfield S. Hancock24,64746.03James B. Weaver1,4352.683
{{Party shading/Republican}}

| 1876

Rutherford B. Hayes{{efn|name="PV"}}n/an/aSamuel J. Tildenn/an/a3Allocated 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

Notes

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References

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{{Colorado elections}}

{{United States presidential elections}}

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