- Lead
- 30
- Total
- 40,729
- vs nation
- D+1.5
Colorado 62nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,859
- Total
- 42,823
- vs nation
- D+6.9
- Lead
- 4,702
- Total
- 38,444
- vs nation
- D+10.1
- Lead
- 10,247
- Total
- 38,666
- vs nation
- D+22.6
- Lead
- 9,781
- Total
- 36,804
- vs nation
- D+19.3
- Lead
- 4,890
- Total
- 35,322
- vs nation
- D+16.3
- Lead
- 3,563
- Total
- 30,824
- vs nation
- D+11.0
- Lead
- 7,148
- Total
- 28,269
- vs nation
- D+16.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+0.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 88,5832024 5-year
- Population density
- 9.9 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8,922 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,0932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 51.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+78.1 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.9 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 34, NM · twin score 91.7
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 62nd 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
88.2%
9,381 votes · D+78.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 72.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
55.2%
7,047 votes · R+12.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1888 · 54.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
24,033votes
62.2% of the vote · D+26.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 23,276 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
19,765votes
48.5% of the vote · D+0.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 18,417 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
+84.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+78.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +34.5 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+49.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.9 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +3.6 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.
Colorado House District 62 ranks among the state's most evenly divided seats, with the 2024 presidential margin landing at less than one-tenth of a percentage point — making candidate-level factors and turnout operations unusually decisive here.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 47.9 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 11.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.1 points.
A population of 88,583, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,093 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 34 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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