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Colorado has been trending Democratic since the early 2000s due to the rising percentage of young, college-educated, suburban, and unaffiliated voters leaning Democratic. [10] [11] [12] The increased organization and perceived centrism of the state's Democratic Party has also been advanced as a reason for the political shift.
The booming state capital Denver is the economic center of Colorado. As of August 2013, Colorado had 53,800 nonmilitary federal employees, which made of 2.3 percent of the state's total nonfarm employment, slightly above the national average of 2.0 percent. In addition, there were 37,285 active military in Colorado. [17]
In 1967, Colorado was the first state to loosen restrictions on abortion when governor John Love signed a law allowing abortions in cases of rape, incest, or threats to the woman's mental or physical health. Many states followed Colorado's lead in loosening abortion laws in the 1960s and 1970s. [42]
Cook PVIs are calculated by comparing a state's average Democratic Party or Republican Party share of the two-party presidential vote in the past two presidential elections to the nation's average share of the same. PVIs for the states over time can be used to show the trends of U.S. states towards, or away from, one party or the other. [4]
If that result holds, Democrats will have 43 seats out of 65 in the Colorado House of Representatives, while Republicans will have 22. A party needs 44 seats to have a supermajority in the chamber.
This list of the 64 counties of the U.S. State of Colorado by socioeconomic factors is sourced from the 2020 United States census, the 2022 American Community Survey, and the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. All data are five-year estimates from 2018–2022, unless otherwise ...
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State Treasurer; The table also indicates the historical party composition in the: State Senate; State House of Representatives; State delegation to the U.S. Senate; State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives; For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's ...