- Lead
- 4,214
- Total
- 52,894
- vs nation
- D+9.4
Colorado 61st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,648
- Total
- 55,256
- vs nation
- D+5.8
- Lead
- 133
- Total
- 44,733
- vs nation
- R+2.4
- Lead
- 2,406
- Total
- 42,539
- vs nation
- R+9.5
- Lead
- 909
- Total
- 39,417
- vs nation
- R+9.6
- Lead
- 6,892
- Total
- 35,400
- vs nation
- R+17.0
- Lead
- 6,503
- Total
- 28,887
- vs nation
- R+23.0
- Lead
- 5,645
- Total
- 24,654
- vs nation
- R+31.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 90,1762024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,110 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 29 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $147,7862024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+65.1 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 37, CO · twin score 93.2
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 61st 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
81.3%
5,355 votes · D+65.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 53.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
77.7%
8,955 votes · R+57.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 77.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
29,757votes
53.9% of the vote · D+10.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 27,797 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
24,109votes
43.6% of the vote · D+10.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 23,583 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
+71.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+65.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +9.4 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+56.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +44.4 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 60.4%25,258 | 39.6%16,538 | 41,796 |
Colorado 61st State House District sits in the Rocky Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 65.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 57.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.0 points.
A population of 90,176, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $147,786 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 37 and State House District 43.
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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