Colorado's 8th congressional district

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Colorado's 8th congressional district
Colorado's 8th congressional district (since 2023).svg
Colorado's 8th congressional district
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative
Population (2023)740,576 [1]
Median household
income
$92,135 [2]
Ethnicity
Cook PVI EVEN [3]

Colorado's 8th congressional district is a new district in the United States House of Representatives that was apportioned after the 2020 United States census. [4] [5] [6] The first congressional seat to be added to Colorado's congressional delegation since 2001, the 8th district was drawn before the 2022 elections. [7] The district was drawn by the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission and approved in an 11–1 vote on September 28, 2021, before being approved unanimously by the Colorado Supreme Court on November 1, 2021. [8] [9] [10] [11]

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The district is one of seven with a Cook Partisan Voting Index of EVEN, meaning that the district votes almost identically to the national electorate. It was also identified as a presidential bellwether district by Sabato's Crystal Ball , having voted for the Electoral College winner in the past four presidential elections as of 2020. [12]

Characteristics

Colorado's 8th congressional district stretches along Interstate 25, encompassing sections of Adams County, Larimer County, and Weld County. The largest population centers are Brighton, Commerce City, Greeley, Johnstown, Northglenn, and Thornton. [13] [14] The district has the largest number of Hispanic residents of any congressional district in Colorado, making up 38.5% of the adult population. [15] The 8th congressional district is viewed as competitive, with the Democratic Party holding a 3% lead in active registered voters and an average margin of victory of 1.3% between eight statewide elections held between 2016 and 2020. [13] Joe Biden won the area that is now the 8th district by 4.7% in the 2020 United States presidential election. [16] Republicans are strongest in Greeley and Weld County, while the northern Denver suburbs in Adams County lean Democratic.

Voting

These results vary from older lines to current

YearOfficeResult
2022 Governor Polis 52.8% – Ganahl 44.6%
Senate Bennet 50.3% - O'Dea 46.3%

Composition

#CountySeatPopulation
1 Adams Brighton 519,572
69 Larimer Fort Collins 370,771
123 Weld Greeley 359,442

Cities of 10,000 people or more

2,500 – 10,000 people

List of members representing the district

NamePartyYearsCong–
ress
Electoral historyDistrict location
District created January 3, 2023
Rep. Yadira Caraveo - 118th Congress.jpg
Yadira Caraveo
(Thornton)
Democratic January 3, 2023 –
present
118th Elected in 2022.
Lost re-election.
2023–present
Colorado's 8th congressional district (since 2023) (new version).svg
Parts of Adams, Larimer, and Weld
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Gabe Evans (elect)
(Fort Lupton)
Republican January 3, 2025 119th Elected in 2024.

Election results

2022

Results of the 2022 election by county 2022 United States House of Representatives election Colorado's 8th Congressional district map results by county.svg
Results of the 2022 election by county
2022 Colorado's 8th congressional district election [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yadira Caraveo 114,377 48.38% N/A
Republican Barbara Kirkmeyer 112,74547.69%N/A
Libertarian Richard Ward9,2803.93%N/A
Total votes236,402 100.00%
Democratic win (new seat)

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