- Lead
- 39,803
- Total
- 100,436
- vs nation
- D+41.1
Colorado 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,703
- Total
- 98,876
- vs nation
- D+33.7
- Lead
- 20,828
- Total
- 81,248
- vs nation
- D+23.5
- Lead
- 14,577
- Total
- 78,117
- vs nation
- D+14.8
- Lead
- 17,222
- Total
- 73,523
- vs nation
- D+16.2
- Lead
- 6,410
- Total
- 69,448
- vs nation
- D+11.7
- Lead
- 4,727
- Total
- 63,454
- vs nation
- R+8.0
- Lead
- 1,665
- Total
- 54,482
- vs nation
- R+11.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+39.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 164,6582024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,582 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 104 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $107,0922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+54.8 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.9 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 22, CO · twin score 93.0
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 17th 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
75.4%
2,399 votes · D+54.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 68.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
74.4%
5,872 votes · R+49.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 73.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
68,801votes
68.5% of the vote · D+39.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 67,000 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
30,974votes
44.6% of the vote · D+9.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 30,836 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
+60.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+54.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +41.1 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+43.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +40.2 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 | 74.5%67,957 | 25.5%23,281 | 91,238 |
| 2020 | D | 76.7%65,905 | 23.3%20,068 | 85,973 |
Colorado 17th State Senate District sits in the Rocky Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.8 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 49.9 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.6 points.
A population of 164,658, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $107,092 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 22 and State Senate District 26.
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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