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The Colorado State Senate is the upper house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Colorado. It is composed of 35 members elected from single-member districts, with each district having a population of about 123,000 as of the 2000 census .
The 2024 Colorado Senate elections took place on November 5, 2024, with the primary elections being held on June 25, 2024. [1] Voters in 18 out of the 35 districts of the state Senate elected their representative for a four-year term. [2] This election coincided with other Colorado elections of the same year and the biennial United States ...
Colorado was admitted to the Union on August 1, 1876 and elects U.S. senators to Senate class 2 and class 3.. Both of Colorados current U.S. senators are Democrats Michael Bennet (serving since 2009) and John Hickenlooper (serving since 2021).
The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon Colorado's admission to the Union in 1876, the state was assigned a Class 2 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1876 .
Colorado had not elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate since Cory Gardner in 2014, another very strong year for Republicans nationwide and while Colorado was still considered a swing state, even then Gardner only won narrowly. Bennet ultimately won reelection by a comfortable 14.6 point margin, outperforming Biden's victory two years prior ...
The Colorado General Assembly was the first state legislature to welcome women as elected members, with Clara Cressingham, Carrie C. Holly and Frances S. Klock all being elected to the State House of Representatives in 1894 and Helen Robinson being elected to the State Senate in 1912 (the second state upper house in the country to welcome women ...
The 2020 United States Senate election in Colorado was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Colorado, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The Senate is currently composed of 23 Democrats and 12 Republicans. The Senate is led by President of the Senate Steve Fenberg, Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, and Minority Leader Paul Lundeen. The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, composed of 65 seats of approximately 77,000 people each.