- Lead
- 4,360
- Total
- 85,107
- vs nation
- R+3.7
Colorado 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,520
- Total
- 88,299
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 390
- Total
- 78,646
- vs nation
- R+2.6
- Lead
- 10,657
- Total
- 76,419
- vs nation
- D+10.1
- Lead
- 10,840
- Total
- 72,427
- vs nation
- D+7.7
- Lead
- 4,252
- Total
- 67,187
- vs nation
- D+8.8
- Lead
- 6,061
- Total
- 53,946
- vs nation
- D+10.7
- Lead
- 11,389
- Total
- 50,301
- vs nation
- D+14.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+5.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 168,1622024 5-year
- Population density
- 70 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,387 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,0102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 50.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 41.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+71.6 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.1 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 13, CO · twin score 86.2
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 3rd State Senate 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
85.0%
8,353 votes · D+71.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 72.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
65.8%
15,518 votes · R+32.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 55.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
43,772votes
49.6% of the vote · D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 42,551 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
43,688votes
51.3% of the vote · R+5.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 42,252 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
+77.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+71.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +31.5 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+47.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.1 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +14.8 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.
Colorado Senate District 3 covers a stretch of sparsely populated high plains and foothill communities where the 2024 presidential margin ran roughly 11 points to the right, reflecting a largely rural, agricultural electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 71.6 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 46.1 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.1 points.
A population of 168,162, a 51% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,010 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 13 and State Senate District 21.
The state-senate 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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