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The 2016 Colorado Democratic presidential caucuses took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Colorado as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
On the same day, dubbed "Super Tuesday," Democratic primaries were held in ten other states plus American Samoa, while the Republican Party held primaries in eleven states including their own Colorado caucuses.
Youth [1] [2] and Latino [3] caucus-goers delivered a win for Bernie Sanders.
Poll source | Date | 1st | 2nd | Other |
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Caucus results [4] | March 1, 2016 | Bernie Sanders 59.44% | Hillary Clinton 39.85% | Other 0.71% |
Washington Free Beacon/TPC Research [5] Margin of error: ± 3% | February 16–17, 2016 | Bernie Sanders 49% | Hillary Clinton 43% | Undecided 9% |
Quinnipiac University [6] Margin of error: ± 4.9% | November 11–15, 2015 | Hillary Clinton 55% | Bernie Sanders 27% | Martin O'Malley 2% Undecided 15% |
Suffolk University [7] Margin of error: ± ? | September 13–16, 2014 | Hillary Clinton 59% | Elizabeth Warren 21% | Joe Biden 8% Andrew Cuomo 4% Martin O’Malley 0% Undecided 6% Other 2% Refused 1% |
Caucus date: March 1, 2016
Candidate | Popular vote | Estimated delegates | |||
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Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
Bernie Sanders | 72,846 | 58.98% | 41 | 0 | 41 |
Hillary Clinton | 49,789 | 40.31% | 25 | 9 | 34 |
Uncommitted | 822 | 0.67% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Others | 51 | 0.04% | |||
Total | 123,508 | 100% | 66 | 12 | 78 |
Sources: [8] [9] |
District | Total estimate | Bernie Sanders | Hillary Clinton | |||
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Votes | Estimated delegates | Votes | Estimated delegates | Votes | Estimated delegates | |
1st district | 29,474 | 8 | 16,232 | 4 | 13,242 | 4 |
2nd district | 30,624 | 7 | 19,376 | 4 | 11,248 | 3 |
3rd district | 14,671 | 6 | 8,956 | 4 | 5,715 | 2 |
4th district | 10,060 | 5 | 6,115 | 3 | 3,945 | 2 |
5th district | 10,315 | 5 | 6,338 | 3 | 3,977 | 2 |
6th district | 12,836 | 6 | 6,675 | 3 | 6,161 | 3 |
7th district | 14,655 | 6 | 9,154 | 4 | 5,501 | 4 |
At-large delegates | 122,635 | 14 | 72,846 | 8 | 49,789 | 6 |
Pledged PLEOs | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||
Total | 66 | 38 | 28 |
Timeframe for the county assemblies: March 2–26, 2016
Candidate | State + District delegates [11] | Estimated delegates | |||
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Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
Bernie Sanders | 372 | 61.39% | |||
Hillary Clinton | 234 | 38.61% | |||
Uncommitted | |||||
Total | 606 | 100% |
Detailed results for the congressional district conventions, April 1–15, 2016 [12]
District | Delegates available | Delegates won | |
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Sanders | Clinton | ||
1st district | 8 | 5 | 3 |
2nd district | 7 | 4 | 3 |
3rd district | 6 | 4 | 2 |
4th district | 5 | 3 | 2 |
5th district | 5 | 3 | 2 |
6th district | 6 | 3 | 3 |
7th district | 6 | 4 | 2 |
Total | 43 | 26 | 17 |
State convention date: April 16, 2016
Candidate | State convention delegates | National delegates won | |||
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Count | Percentage | At-large | PLEO | Total | |
Bernie Sanders | 1,900 | 62.3% | 9 | 6 | 15 |
Hillary Clinton | 1,150 | 37.7% | 5 | 3 | 8 |
Total | 3,050 | 100.0% | 14 | 9 | 23 |
As Barack Obama had similarly done eight years earlier in the state, Bernie Sanders won a convincing 19-point victory in the Colorado caucus, relying on turnout from young adult voters in a majority white electorate. [14] [15] He ran up big margins in the capital city of Denver and in Denver County at large, as well as in Colorado Springs in El Paso County and Fort Collins in Larimer County. Sanders also performed very strongly in the western parts of the state along the Rocky Mountains, in regions such as the Colorado Mineral belt and Northwestern Colorado which are rural and sparsely populated. Clinton won in the city of Pueblo in Pueblo County.
Sanders gained more delegates over Clinton with a large turnout from supporters at the conventions in April. [16]
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