- Lead
- 44,455
- Total
- 102,169
- vs nation
- R+42.0
Colorado 35th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 42,390
- Total
- 99,936
- vs nation
- R+46.9
- Lead
- 39,529
- Total
- 84,792
- vs nation
- R+48.7
- Lead
- 30,701
- Total
- 79,385
- vs nation
- R+42.5
- Lead
- 27,167
- Total
- 76,051
- vs nation
- R+43.0
- Lead
- 32,716
- Total
- 72,765
- vs nation
- R+42.5
- Lead
- 24,850
- Total
- 64,026
- vs nation
- R+39.3
- Lead
- 13,982
- Total
- 58,163
- vs nation
- R+32.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+43.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 172,1272024 5-year
- Population density
- 6.7 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 25,653 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $83,7472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.0 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.2 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 30, OR · twin score 89.2
presidential history
Party record book
Colorado 35th 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
72.2%
13,196 votes · D+46.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61.4%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
72.0%
52,391 votes · R+45.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 70.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
35,657votes
59.4% of the vote · D+20.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 35,146 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
72,164votes
70.6% of the vote · R+43.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 69,894 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
+52.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +12.3 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+49.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.2 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +48.7 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 35 recorded a 43.5-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, reflecting a constituency that blends outer suburban growth corridors with rural Front Range communities where conservative preferences have held steady across recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.0 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 48.2 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 43.5 points.
A population of 172,127, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,747 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 30 and State Senate District 51.
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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Colorado 35th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/08035/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.