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Election 1988 Results

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1988 presidential election in Colorado

George H. W. Bush (Republican) beat Michael Dukakis (Democrat) in Colorado in 1988, 53.1% to 45.3%, a margin of 7.8 points and 106,724 votes.

Colorado voted 0.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+7.7.

The Republican hold continued from 1984, when Ronald Reagan won.

Republicans led in 49 of the 63 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 14. The largest, Denver, cast 209,430 votes and went to the Democrat by 23.6 points. The closest was San Juan, where 18 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
George H. W. Bush won Republican 728,177 53.1%
Michael Dukakis Democratic 621,453 45.3%
All other candidates 22,764 1.7%
Total1,372,394

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Denver 127,173 60.7% 77,753 37.1% 4,504 209,430 D+23.6
Jefferson 81,824 41.6% 110,820 56.4% 3,867 196,511 R+14.8
Arapahoe 61,113 38.4% 95,926 60.2% 2,206 159,245 R+21.9
El Paso 39,995 28.9% 96,965 70.0% 1,506 138,466 R+41.1
Boulder 57,265 53.4% 48,174 44.9% 1,784 107,223 D+8.5
Adams 49,464 52.6% 43,163 45.9% 1,467 94,094 D+6.7
Larimer 35,703 43.0% 45,967 55.3% 1,396 83,066 R+12.4
Pueblo 32,788 61.5% 20,119 37.7% 411 53,318 D+23.8
Weld 20,548 43.0% 26,497 55.4% 762 47,807 R+12.4
Mesa 14,372 38.7% 22,150 59.6% 633 37,155 R+20.9
Douglas 6,931 28.5% 17,035 70.0% 384 24,350 R+41.5
La Plata 5,443 40.7% 7,714 57.7% 205 13,362 R+17.0
Fremont 5,278 40.3% 7,623 58.2% 187 13,088 R+17.9
Garfield 4,620 41.6% 6,358 57.2% 136 11,114 R+15.6
Montrose 3,748 37.5% 6,012 60.2% 233 9,993 R+22.7
Delta 3,521 38.5% 5,449 59.6% 174 9,144 R+21.1
Morgan 3,728 42.9% 4,795 55.2% 157 8,680 R+12.3
Otero 3,910 47.1% 4,265 51.4% 124 8,299 R+4.3
Logan 3,382 42.4% 4,485 56.2% 108 7,975 R+13.8
Eagle 3,314 42.4% 4,366 55.9% 129 7,809 R+13.5
Montezuma 2,233 34.1% 4,208 64.2% 110 6,551 R+30.1
Las Animas 4,075 64.4% 2,162 34.1% 94 6,331 D+30.2
Pitkin 3,420 54.1% 2,801 44.3% 105 6,326 D+9.8
Routt 2,922 46.2% 3,264 51.7% 133 6,319 R+5.4
Chaffee 2,548 44.6% 3,080 53.9% 86 5,714 R+9.3
Summit 2,595 46.1% 2,893 51.4% 136 5,624 R+5.3
Teller 1,656 30.1% 3,760 68.4% 84 5,500 R+38.3
Prowers 2,207 41.8% 2,978 56.3% 101 5,286 R+14.6
Alamosa 2,146 44.9% 2,567 53.7% 67 4,780 R+8.8
Gunnison 1,897 41.9% 2,520 55.7% 106 4,523 R+13.8
Moffat 1,634 36.2% 2,757 61.0% 128 4,519 R+24.9
Elbert 1,566 35.2% 2,805 63.1% 77 4,448 R+27.9
Yuma 1,835 41.6% 2,513 56.9% 66 4,414 R+15.4
Rio Grande 1,545 36.5% 2,626 62.0% 64 4,235 R+25.5
Grand 1,451 37.8% 2,306 60.1% 81 3,838 R+22.3
Clear Creek 1,698 46.8% 1,820 50.1% 114 3,632 R+3.4
Kit Carson 1,196 34.1% 2,262 64.4% 54 3,512 R+30.4
Conejos 1,976 57.3% 1,445 41.9% 26 3,447 D+15.4
Park 1,343 40.0% 1,909 56.9% 105 3,357 R+16.9
Huerfano 1,876 63.1% 1,079 36.3% 16 2,971 D+26.8
Washington 958 35.3% 1,707 62.9% 50 2,715 R+27.6
Rio Blanco 803 30.2% 1,821 68.4% 38 2,662 R+38.2
Baca 851 33.3% 1,670 65.3% 35 2,556 R+32.0
Lake 1,516 59.6% 969 38.1% 58 2,543 D+21.5
Phillips 923 40.5% 1,317 57.8% 38 2,278 R+17.3
Archuleta 795 35.1% 1,440 63.7% 27 2,262 R+28.5
Lincoln 874 38.9% 1,356 60.3% 19 2,249 R+21.4
Bent 1,088 50.2% 1,032 47.6% 47 2,167 D+2.6
Saguache 1,033 51.3% 945 46.9% 35 2,013 D+4.4
San Miguel 961 52.3% 798 43.4% 80 1,839 D+8.9
Gilpin 804 50.6% 728 45.8% 58 1,590 D+4.8
Costilla 1,120 70.8% 454 28.7% 7 1,581 D+42.1
Sedgwick 611 39.5% 921 59.6% 13 1,545 R+20.1
Crowley 630 42.0% 862 57.5% 8 1,500 R+15.5
Ouray 439 34.5% 814 63.9% 21 1,274 R+29.4
Cheyenne 399 33.6% 760 64.1% 27 1,186 R+30.4
Custer 310 28.6% 753 69.5% 21 1,084 R+40.9
Kiowa 398 37.8% 645 61.3% 10 1,053 R+23.5
Jackson 294 33.0% 584 65.5% 13 891 R+32.5
Dolores 230 31.4% 488 66.7% 14 732 R+35.2
San Juan 192 46.0% 210 50.4% 15 417 R+4.3
Hinsdale 111 27.3% 295 72.5% 1 407 R+45.2
Mineral 174 44.2% 217 55.1% 3 394 R+10.9

Counties as they stood in 1988; 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