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Election 1972 Results

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1972 presidential election in Colorado

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat George McGovern (Democrat) in Colorado in 1972, 62.6% to 34.6%, a margin of 28.0 points and 267,209 votes.

Colorado voted 4.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+23.1.

The Republican hold continued from 1968, when Richard Nixon also won.

Republicans led in 61 of the 63 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 2. The largest, Denver, cast 225,335 votes and went to the Republican by 10.6 points. The closest was San Juan, where 98 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Richard Nixon won Republican 597,189 62.6%
George McGovern Democratic 329,980 34.6%
All other candidates 26,715 2.8%
Total953,884

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Denver 98,062 43.5% 121,995 54.1% 5,278 225,335 R+10.6
Jefferson 31,555 27.5% 80,082 69.9% 2,960 114,597 R+42.3
El Paso 21,234 27.2% 53,892 69.1% 2,859 77,985 R+41.9
Arapahoe 18,631 25.7% 52,283 72.2% 1,462 72,376 R+46.5
Boulder 29,484 41.1% 40,766 56.8% 1,520 71,770 R+15.7
Adams 24,170 36.4% 40,372 60.8% 1,870 66,412 R+24.4
Pueblo 19,620 41.7% 25,607 54.4% 1,818 47,045 R+12.7
Larimer 13,731 32.5% 27,462 65.0% 1,041 42,234 R+32.5
Weld 11,690 31.4% 24,695 66.3% 870 37,255 R+34.9
Mesa 6,358 28.1% 15,527 68.7% 728 22,613 R+40.5
Fremont 2,813 28.7% 6,701 68.4% 281 9,795 R+39.7
Otero 2,929 32.0% 6,016 65.7% 205 9,150 R+33.7
La Plata 2,830 30.9% 5,691 62.2% 623 9,144 R+31.3
Logan 2,426 30.5% 5,352 67.3% 178 7,956 R+36.8
Morgan 2,081 27.3% 5,365 70.4% 175 7,621 R+43.1
Delta 1,903 26.4% 4,890 67.7% 427 7,220 R+41.4
Montrose 1,870 26.5% 4,571 64.8% 618 7,059 R+38.3
Las Animas 3,222 46.3% 3,659 52.6% 76 6,957 R+6.3
Garfield 2,088 31.1% 4,452 66.3% 178 6,718 R+35.2
Prowers 1,860 35.0% 3,272 61.6% 181 5,313 R+26.6
Douglas 1,048 21.8% 3,625 75.5% 127 4,800 R+53.7
Pitkin 2,531 54.2% 2,064 44.2% 79 4,674 D+10.0
Alamosa 1,540 33.0% 2,916 62.5% 209 4,665 R+29.5
Montezuma 1,223 26.5% 3,391 73.5% 4,614 R+47.0
Routt 1,613 36.4% 2,629 59.3% 189 4,431 R+22.9
Chaffee 1,354 31.6% 2,859 66.6% 78 4,291 R+35.1
Yuma 1,066 26.4% 2,873 71.0% 106 4,045 R+44.7
Rio Grande 1,029 25.7% 2,787 69.7% 183 3,999 R+44.0
Gunnison 1,187 33.8% 2,231 63.6% 90 3,508 R+29.8
Eagle 1,306 39.6% 1,920 58.2% 75 3,301 R+18.6
Kit Carson 824 25.2% 2,316 70.9% 127 3,267 R+45.7
Huerfano 1,341 44.3% 1,620 53.5% 66 3,027 R+9.2
Conejos 1,140 38.2% 1,658 55.5% 189 2,987 R+17.3
Lake 1,263 43.6% 1,556 53.7% 80 2,899 R+10.1
Moffat 591 20.8% 1,928 67.7% 329 2,848 R+46.9
Washington 643 24.5% 1,837 69.9% 149 2,629 R+45.4
Clear Creek 815 32.6% 1,557 62.2% 130 2,502 R+29.7
Grand 685 27.8% 1,721 69.9% 55 2,461 R+42.1
Lincoln 685 28.6% 1,678 70.0% 33 2,396 R+41.4
Bent 787 33.2% 1,525 64.3% 60 2,372 R+31.1
Phillips 687 30.3% 1,480 65.3% 99 2,266 R+35.0
Baca 527 23.7% 1,645 73.9% 53 2,225 R+50.2
Rio Blanco 414 20.2% 1,586 77.3% 53 2,053 R+57.1
Teller 535 26.2% 1,440 70.5% 69 2,044 R+44.3
Elbert 451 23.3% 1,416 73.3% 65 1,932 R+49.9
Summit 707 38.6% 1,082 59.0% 44 1,833 R+20.5
Saguache 578 34.4% 1,062 63.2% 41 1,681 R+28.8
Sedgwick 485 29.1% 1,129 67.8% 50 1,664 R+38.7
Crowley 414 26.7% 1,094 70.7% 40 1,548 R+43.9
Costilla 744 52.1% 602 42.2% 82 1,428 D+9.9
Park 386 27.1% 1,001 70.3% 37 1,424 R+43.2
Cheyenne 400 31.1% 815 63.4% 71 1,286 R+32.3
Kiowa 372 29.8% 849 67.9% 29 1,250 R+38.2
San Miguel 426 40.2% 583 54.9% 52 1,061 R+14.8
Archuleta 300 31.9% 606 64.5% 34 940 R+32.6
Gilpin 362 40.0% 516 57.0% 27 905 R+17.0
Ouray 186 20.7% 669 74.6% 42 897 R+53.8
Jackson 178 21.9% 623 76.7% 11 812 R+54.8
Dolores 166 23.9% 498 71.8% 30 694 R+47.8
Custer 154 22.2% 495 71.4% 44 693 R+49.2
San Juan 140 34.3% 238 58.3% 30 408 R+24.0
Mineral 96 27.6% 247 71.0% 5 348 R+43.4
Hinsdale 44 19.8% 172 77.5% 6 222 R+57.7

Counties as they stood in 1972; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+11.0
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+13.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+4.9
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+4.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+8.4
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+1.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+4.3
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+7.8
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.3
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+28.0
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+23.1
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+19.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.3
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+5.4
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+6.8
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+23.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.8
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+35.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+23.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+26.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.9
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.1
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+14.2
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+13.4
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+71.1
1892 James B. Weaver (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+14.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.6
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+5.2