- Lead
- 12,122
- Total
- 45,942
- vs nation
- R+24.9
Colorado 48th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,588
- Total
- 43,802
- vs nation
- R+24.1
- Lead
- 7,984
- Total
- 36,538
- vs nation
- R+23.9
- Lead
- 4,585
- Total
- 31,912
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 3,289
- Total
- 28,916
- vs nation
- R+18.6
- Lead
- 7,090
- Total
- 25,196
- vs nation
- R+25.7
- Lead
- 4,455
- Total
- 18,902
- vs nation
- R+24.1
- Lead
- 2,155
- Total
- 16,103
- vs nation
- R+21.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+26.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 88,6252024 5-year
- Population density
- 167 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 532 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $100,6662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 53.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 39.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+70.7 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.7 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 57, OR · twin score 86.4
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 48th 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
84.6%
438 votes · D+70.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 55.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
76.6%
2,421 votes · R+53.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 74.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,057votes
38.9% of the vote · R+19.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,347 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
28,469votes
62.0% of the vote · R+26.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 25,645 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
+76.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+70.7 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +6.7 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+49.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.9 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +45.9 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 | R | 47.8%18,845 | 52.2%20,615 | 39,460 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+26.4, this district sits well outside Colorado's competitive tier. Its political profile reflects the rural or exurban constituencies that anchor the state's most reliably red legislative seats.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 70.7 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 53.7 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.4 points.
A population of 88,625, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $100,666 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 47.
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 48th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/08048/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.