- Lead
- 19,222
- Total
- 58,466
- vs nation
- R+31.4
Colorado 20th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 19,924
- Total
- 55,367
- vs nation
- R+40.4
- Lead
- 20,471
- Total
- 44,589
- vs nation
- R+48.0
- Lead
- 18,712
- Total
- 40,391
- vs nation
- R+50.2
- Lead
- 17,162
- Total
- 37,959
- vs nation
- R+52.5
- Lead
- 20,290
- Total
- 35,054
- vs nation
- R+55.4
- Lead
- 16,113
- Total
- 28,947
- vs nation
- R+56.2
- Lead
- 12,316
- Total
- 24,397
- vs nation
- R+59.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+32.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 88,7452024 5-year
- Population density
- 285 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 311 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $145,5892024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+17.6 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+74.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 21, GA · twin score 93.3
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 20th State House 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
57.2%
1,625 votes · D+17.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 41.4%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
86.8%
2,763 votes · R+74.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 84.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
18,924votes
32.4% of the vote · R+32.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,916 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
38,146votes
65.2% of the vote · R+32.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 36,840 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
+23.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · −24.4 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+63.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+61.6 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +59.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 42.5%17,807 | 57.5%24,123 | 41,930 |
| 2020 | R | 40.2%16,889 | 59.8%25,159 | 42,048 |
Anchored in the conservative rural Eastern Plains, this district delivered a 33-point presidential margin in 2024, making it among the most lopsided state house seats in Colorado and a consistent anchor for Republican legislative totals.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.6 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 74.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.9 points.
A population of 88,745, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $145,589 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 21 and State House District 20.
The state-house 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 20th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/08020/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.