- Lead
- 16,091
- Total
- 53,544
- vs nation
- D+31.5
Colorado 23rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 16,098
- Total
- 55,705
- vs nation
- D+24.4
- Lead
- 7,850
- Total
- 48,984
- vs nation
- D+13.9
- Lead
- 6,848
- Total
- 46,180
- vs nation
- D+11.0
- Lead
- 8,313
- Total
- 43,958
- vs nation
- D+11.6
- Lead
- 1,982
- Total
- 39,827
- vs nation
- D+7.4
- Lead
- 502
- Total
- 34,485
- vs nation
- D+0.9
- Lead
- 1,105
- Total
- 30,792
- vs nation
- R+4.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 87,2832024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,073 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 28.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,5632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+85.4 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 52, CO · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 23rd 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
90.6%
538 votes · D+85.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 68.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
65.5%
10,609 votes · R+33.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 64.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
35,122votes
63.0% of the vote · D+28.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 34,029 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
19,102votes
41.4% of the vote · D+14.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 19,024 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
+91.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+85.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +36.7 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+40.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.6 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +20.3 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.
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+30.0, against D+18.9 in 2008. Median household income was $110,656 in the 2024 ACS 5-year, among the higher figures for a state house district.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.4 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 45.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.1 points.
A population of 87,283, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,563 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 52 and State House District 29.
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 23rd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/08023/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.