- Lead
- 13,848
- Total
- 107,924
- vs nation
- D+14.3
Colorado 16th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,313
- Total
- 112,542
- vs nation
- D+6.5
- Lead
- 572
- Total
- 102,106
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 4,749
- Total
- 96,832
- vs nation
- R+8.8
- Lead
- 1,326
- Total
- 90,198
- vs nation
- R+8.7
- Lead
- 14,445
- Total
- 82,207
- vs nation
- R+15.1
- Lead
- 14,147
- Total
- 69,110
- vs nation
- R+21.0
- Lead
- 11,813
- Total
- 60,040
- vs nation
- R+28.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 166,1002024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,651 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 45.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $121,0762024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+66.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 20, CO · twin score 97.4
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 16th 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
81.9%
8,425 votes · D+66.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 55.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
76.0%
23,401 votes · R+54.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 75.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
60,949votes
54.2% of the vote · D+10.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 59,451 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
49,600votes
51.2% of the vote · R+4.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 48,636 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
+72.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+66.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +14.3 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+51.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +40.9 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.
Colorado SD-16 sits within the Denver metro's suburban ring, where population density and college-educated households have nudged presidential margins toward Democrats by mid-single digits in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 66.8 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 54.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.8 points.
A population of 166,100, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $121,076 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 20 and State Senate District 19.
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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