United States presidential elections in Colorado

Presidential elections in Colorado

Number of elections	37
Voted Democratic	14
Voted Republican	22
Voted other	1 [lower-alpha 1]
Voted for winning candidate	26
Voted for losing candidate	11

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Colorado, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1876, Colorado has participated in every U.S. presidential election.

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates [lower-alpha 2]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
2020 [1]	Joe Biden	1,804,196	55.40	Donald Trump	1,364,471	41.90	—			9
2016 [2]	Donald Trump [lower-alpha 3]	1,202,484	43.25	Hillary Clinton	1,338,870	48.16				9
2012 [3]	Barack Obama	1,323,101	51.49	Mitt Romney	1,185,243	46.13	—			9
2008 [4]	Barack Obama	1,288,633	53.66	John McCain	1,073,629	44.71	—			9
2004 [5]	George W. Bush	1,101,255	51.69	John Kerry	1,001,732	47.02	—			9
2000 [6]	George W. Bush [lower-alpha 3]	883,748	50.75	Al Gore	738,227	42.39	—			8
1996 [7]	Bill Clinton	671,152	44.43	Bob Dole	691,848	45.80	Ross Perot	99,629	6.59	8
1992	Bill Clinton	629,681	40.13	George H. W. Bush	562,850	35.87	Ross Perot	366,010	23.32	8
1988	George H. W. Bush	728,177	53.06	Michael Dukakis	621,453	45.28	—			8
1984	Ronald Reagan	821,818	63.44	Walter Mondale	454,974	35.12	—			8
1980	Ronald Reagan	652,264	55.07	Jimmy Carter	367,973	31.07	John B. Anderson	130,633	11.03	7
1976	Jimmy Carter	460,353	42.58	Gerald Ford	584,367	54.05	—			7
1972	Richard Nixon	597,189	62.61	George McGovern	329,980	34.59	—			7
1968	Richard Nixon	409,345	50.46	Hubert Humphrey	335,174	41.32	George Wallace	60,813	7.50	6
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	476,024	61.27	Barry Goldwater	296,767	38.19	—			6
1960	John F. Kennedy	330,629	44.91	Richard Nixon	402,242	54.63	—			6
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	394,479	59.49	Adlai Stevenson II	263,997	39.81	T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors [lower-alpha 4]	759	0.11	6
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	379,782	60.27	Adlai Stevenson II	245,504	38.96	—			6
1948	Harry S. Truman	267,288	51.88	Thomas E. Dewey	239,714	46.52	Strom Thurmond	—	—	6
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	234,331	46.40	Thomas E. Dewey	268,731	53.21	—			6
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	265,554	48.37	Wendell Willkie	279,576	50.92	—			6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	295,021	60.37	Alf Landon	181,267	37.09	—			6
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	250,877	54.81	Herbert Hoover	189,617	41.43	—			6
1928	Herbert Hoover	253,872	64.72	Al Smith	133,131	33.94	—			6
1924	Calvin Coolidge	195,171	57.02	John W. Davis	75,238	21.98	Robert M. La Follette	69,945	20.44	6
1920	Warren G. Harding	173,248	59.32	James M. Cox	104,936	35.93	Parley P. Christensen	3,016	1.03	6
1916	Woodrow Wilson	178,816	60.74	Charles E. Hughes	102,308	34.75	—			6
1912	Woodrow Wilson	114,232	42.80	Theodore Roosevelt	72,306	27.09	William H. Taft	58,386	21.88	6
1908	William H. Taft	123,693	46.88	William Jennings Bryan	126,644	48.00	—			5
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	134,661	55.26	Alton B. Parker	100,105	41.08	—			5
1900	William McKinley	93,072	42.04	William Jennings Bryan	122,733	55.43	—			4
1896	William McKinley	26,271	13.86	William Jennings Bryan	161,005	84.95	—			4
1892	Grover Cleveland	no ballots		Benjamin Harrison	38,620	41.13	James B. Weaver	53,584	57.07	4
1888	Benjamin Harrison [lower-alpha 3]	50,772	55.22	Grover Cleveland	37,549	40.84	—			3
1884	Grover Cleveland	27,723	41.68	James G. Blaine	36,084	54.25	—			3
1880	James A. Garfield	27,450	51.26	Winfield S. Hancock	24,647	46.03	James B. Weaver	1,435	2.68	3
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes [lower-alpha 3]	n/a	n/a	Samuel J. Tilden	n/a	n/a	—			3	Allocated by state legislature. [lower-alpha 5]

See also

• Elections in Colorado

Notes

1. James B. Weaver, 1892.
2. For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
3. Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
4. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
5. Colorado was admitted to the union as the 38th state on August 1, 1876. With insufficient time or money to organize a presidential election in the new state, Colorado's state legislature selected the state’s electors. These electors in turn gave their three votes to Hayes and the Republican Party. This was the last election in which any state chose electors through its state legislature.

References

1. "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times . 3 November 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
2. 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
3. 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
4. 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
5. "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
6. "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
7. "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.