- Lead
- 14,096
- Total
- 46,388
- vs nation
- R+28.9
Colorado 47th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,060
- Total
- 47,383
- vs nation
- R+32.0
- Lead
- 12,724
- Total
- 41,414
- vs nation
- R+32.8
- Lead
- 6,448
- Total
- 39,963
- vs nation
- R+20.0
- Lead
- 5,786
- Total
- 38,946
- vs nation
- R+22.1
- Lead
- 9,291
- Total
- 38,693
- vs nation
- R+21.6
- Lead
- 6,070
- Total
- 34,820
- vs nation
- R+18.0
- Lead
- 199
- Total
- 33,761
- vs nation
- R+9.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+30.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 91,6992024 5-year
- Population density
- 5.5 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16,690 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,0632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 33.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+53.4 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.1 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 57, OR · twin score 92.0
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 47th 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
76.0%
11,531 votes · D+53.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 65.0%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
64.0%
29,701 votes · R+30.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 63.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
30,391votes
61.9% of the vote · D+25.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 28,654 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
29,701votes
64.0% of the vote · R+30.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 29,696 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
+59.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · +15.9 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+48.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.1 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +32.8 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 Republican by R+30.4, against R+14.9 in 2008. About 164,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 70.8% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.4 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 47.1 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.4 points.
A population of 91,699, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,063 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 57 and State House District 63.
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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