- Lead
- 24,990
- Total
- 83,035
- vs nation
- D+31.6
Colorado 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 31,268
- Total
- 91,732
- vs nation
- D+29.6
- Lead
- 18,725
- Total
- 80,981
- vs nation
- D+21.0
- Lead
- 12,871
- Total
- 76,490
- vs nation
- D+13.0
- Lead
- 14,091
- Total
- 69,909
- vs nation
- D+12.9
- Lead
- 2,490
- Total
- 61,894
- vs nation
- D+6.5
- Lead
- 966
- Total
- 51,467
- vs nation
- R+2.4
- Lead
- 988
- Total
- 46,816
- vs nation
- R+10.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 163,7842024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,095 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 40 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $89,1582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+78.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+67.7 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 22, CO · twin score 93.2
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 26th 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
88.2%
7,281 votes · D+78.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 65.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
78.6%
13,681 votes · R+58.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 78.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
60,350votes
65.8% of the vote · D+34.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 52,904 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
33,881votes
67.6% of the vote · R+36.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 30,865 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
+84.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+78.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +31.6 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+47.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +42.5 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 | 67.9%51,475 | 32.1%24,287 | 75,762 |
Colorado 26th State Senate District sits in the Rocky Mountain West. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.0 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 67.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.1 points.
A population of 163,784, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $89,158 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 17.
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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