- Lead
- 39,564
- Total
- 406,675
- vs nation
- R+8.3
Colorado 3rd Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 34,029
- Total
- 412,315
- vs nation
- R+12.7
- Lead
- 50,326
- Total
- 357,520
- vs nation
- R+16.2
- Lead
- 24,117
- Total
- 341,020
- vs nation
- R+10.9
- Lead
- 9,895
- Total
- 326,937
- vs nation
- R+10.3
- Lead
- 34,916
- Total
- 300,201
- vs nation
- R+9.2
- Lead
- 36,402
- Total
- 252,895
- vs nation
- R+14.9
- Lead
- 1,131
- Total
- 224,567
- vs nation
- R+9.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+9.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 721,9742024 5-year
- Population density
- 14 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 49,950 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,8902024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 25.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+76.1 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+39.6 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 2, OR · twin score 91.8
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 3rd Congressional District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1880) · 37 presidential cycles · 37 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
William J. Bryan1896
87.0%
50,053 votes · D+76.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 65.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
69.4%
96,339 votes · R+39.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 61.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
184,264votes
44.7% of the vote · R+8.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 178,501 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
218,293votes
52.9% of the vote · R+8.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 218,065 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
William J. Bryan1896
+82.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+76.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +24.7 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+38.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+37.2 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +22.2 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Colorado's 3rd stretches across the state's mountainous western half, encompassing coal, oil, and gas country alongside ski resort communities. Its 2024 presidential margin of R+10 reflects a rural-exurban electorate that has trended consistently rightward over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 39.6 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.7 points.
A population of 721,974, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,890 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 2 and Congressional District (at Large).
The congressional districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Colorado 3rd Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/0803/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.