- Lead
- 5,770
- Total
- 53,634
- vs nation
- D+12.2
Colorado 28th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,726
- Total
- 55,968
- vs nation
- D+5.8
- Lead
- 189
- Total
- 49,015
- vs nation
- R+1.7
- Lead
- 1,041
- Total
- 46,413
- vs nation
- R+6.1
- Lead
- 883
- Total
- 43,892
- vs nation
- R+5.3
- Lead
- 5,023
- Total
- 40,853
- vs nation
- R+9.8
- Lead
- 5,247
- Total
- 35,458
- vs nation
- R+15.3
- Lead
- 3,874
- Total
- 31,503
- vs nation
- R+20.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 86,8742024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,136 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 27.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $111,3842024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+71.4 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.6 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 24, CO · twin score 98.6
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 28th 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
83.1%
471 votes · D+71.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 54.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
72.6%
12,877 votes · R+48.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 71.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
30,071votes
53.7% of the vote · D+10.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 28,944 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
24,345votes
43.5% of the vote · D+10.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 23,188 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
+77.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+71.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +12.2 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+48.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +32.4 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.
The district recorded a Democratic presidential margin of D+10.8 in 2024 and D+2.0 in 2008, switching sides at least once in between. 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 71.4 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 50.6 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.8 points.
A population of 86,874, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $111,384 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 24 and State House District 27.
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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