United States presidential elections in Colorado
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Template:Infobox elections by state 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[a] |
Votes | Percent | Electoral Votes |
Notes |
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2020[1] | Joe Biden | 1,804,196 | 55.40 | Donald Trump | 1,364,471 | 41.90 | — | 9 | |||
2016[2] | Donald Trump[b] | 1,202,484 | 43.25 | Hillary Clinton | 1,338,870 | 48.16 | Gary Johnson | 144,121 | 5.19 | 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[b] | 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[c] |
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[b] | 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[b] | n/a | n/a | Samuel J. Tilden | n/a | n/a | — | 3 | Allocated by state legislature.[d] |
Notes
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
- ^ Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
- ^ 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
- ^ "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
- ^ "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.