- Lead
- 8,358
- Total
- 34,835
- vs nation
- D+25.5
Colorado 36th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,080
- Total
- 33,258
- vs nation
- D+28.9
- Lead
- 6,296
- Total
- 26,122
- vs nation
- D+22.0
- Lead
- 6,213
- Total
- 24,645
- vs nation
- D+21.4
- Lead
- 6,264
- Total
- 22,871
- vs nation
- D+20.1
- Lead
- 2,236
- Total
- 19,230
- vs nation
- D+14.1
- Lead
- 1,501
- Total
- 15,550
- vs nation
- D+9.1
- Lead
- 1,551
- Total
- 13,679
- vs nation
- D+2.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+24.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 87,4762024 5-year
- Population density
- 572 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 153 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $94,3452024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 32.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 14.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 41.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.1 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 42, CO · twin score 94.9
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 36th 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
86.8%
2,054 votes · D+75.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 73.7%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
60.8%
7,419 votes · R+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1888 · 59.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
21,652votes
65.1% of the vote · D+33.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 21,111 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
12,753votes
36.6% of the vote · D+24.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,572 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
+81.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+75.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +45.8 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+50.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.1 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · +6.0 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 | D | 58.1%21,963 | 41.9%15,808 | 37,771 |
| 2020 | D | 59.0%12,693 | 41.0%8,829 | 21,522 |
Anchored in central Denver, this district's D+24.0 presidential margin reflects a dense, urban electorate that has voted consistently left-of-center across federal, state, and local races for well over a decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.0 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 49.1 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.0 points.
A population of 87,476, a 32% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $94,345 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 42 and State House District 35.
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 36th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/08036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.