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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.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president.
In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden carried the state by 13.5%, becoming the first presidential candidate to win Colorado by a double-digit margin since Reagan. The last Republican to win the Centennial State's electoral votes was George W. Bush in his 2004 re-election victory, which he won by a margin of 4.7%. Since then, the state has shifted to the ...
The politics of Colorado refers to the political system and electoral processes of the U.S. state of Colorado. The state operates under a constitution adopted in 1876 and features both a traditional three-branch system of government and extensive direct democracy mechanisms, including citizen initiatives and referendums.
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.
Elections in Colorado are held to fill various local, state and federal positions. Special elections may be held to fill vacancies at other points in time. In a 2020 study, Colorado was ranked 7th among the 50 states for ease of voting in presidential elections .
Meanwhile, while Trump did win the one remaining large Republican stronghold in the state, El Paso County (home of Colorado Springs), he won with only 56% of the vote, performing worse in the county than McCain in 2008 or Dole in 1996. The confluence of Hillary Clinton's strength in Denver, Boulder, and the Denver suburbs, and Trump's weakness ...
Edward Lawrie Tatum is the 1st Colorado native to win the Nobel Prize for his 1937 metabolism work at Stanford University with George Wells Beadle. August The Town of Bow Mar incorporates. [63] Construction of Interstate Highway I-80S begins in northeastern Colorado (designated I-76 on August 1, 1974.) May 12