- Lead
- 413
- Total
- 47,089
- vs nation
- D+0.6
Colorado 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,209
- Total
- 49,699
- vs nation
- Even
- Lead
- 585
- Total
- 44,559
- vs nation
- R+0.8
- Lead
- 6,939
- Total
- 43,533
- vs nation
- D+12.1
- Lead
- 7,024
- Total
- 41,223
- vs nation
- D+9.8
- Lead
- 3,159
- Total
- 38,099
- vs nation
- D+10.7
- Lead
- 4,046
- Total
- 30,803
- vs nation
- D+12.6
- Lead
- 7,085
- Total
- 28,575
- vs nation
- D+16.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+0.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 91,1922024 5-year
- Population density
- 136 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 668 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,3172024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 52.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 39.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.6 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 62, CO · twin score 87.7
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 46th 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
86.0%
4,854 votes · D+73.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 72.6%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
64.9%
8,673 votes · R+30.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 55.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
25,294votes
50.9% of the vote · D+4.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 24,613 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
23,174votes
49.2% of the vote · R+0.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 23,085 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
+79.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+73.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +33.6 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+46.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.6 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +13.1 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.
Covering part of the Denver metro's suburban fringe, House District 46 recorded a 0.9-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the state's sharpest battlegrounds for both legislative and statewide contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.8 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 44.6 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.9 points.
A population of 91,192, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,317 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 62 and State House District 38.
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 46th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/08046/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.