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Election 1996 Results

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1996 presidential election in Colorado

Bob Dole (Republican) beat Bill Clinton (Democrat) in Colorado in 1996, 45.8% to 44.4%, a margin of 1.4 points and 20,696 votes.

Colorado voted 9.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+8.5.

Colorado changed party: in 1992 it went Democratic, for Bill Clinton.

Republicans led in 41 of the 63 counties and Democrats in 22. The largest, Jefferson, cast 209,723 votes and went to the Republican by 5.7 points. The closest was Mineral, where 13 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Bob Dole won	Republican	691,848	45.8%
Bill Clinton	Democratic	671,152	44.4%
Ross Perot	Reform	99,629	6.6%
All other candidates		48,075	3.2%
Total		1,510,704

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Jefferson	89,494 42.7%	101,517 48.4%	18,712	209,723	R+5.7
Denver	120,312 61.8%	58,529 30.0%	15,973	194,814	D+31.7
El Paso	55,822 32.2%	102,403 59.0%	15,216	173,441	R+26.9
Arapahoe	68,306 41.9%	82,778 50.8%	11,912	162,996	R+8.9
Boulder	63,316 52.2%	41,922 34.5%	16,116	121,354	D+17.6
Larimer	40,965 42.0%	45,935 47.1%	10,550	97,450	R+5.1
Adams	48,314 51.3%	36,666 38.9%	9,234	94,214	D+12.4
Weld	21,325 39.9%	26,518 49.7%	5,547	53,390	R+9.7
Douglas	16,232 31.2%	32,120 61.8%	3,623	51,975	R+30.6
Pueblo	28,791 57.2%	17,402 34.6%	4,108	50,301	D+22.6
Mesa	17,114 36.7%	24,761 53.1%	4,737	46,612	R+16.4
La Plata	6,509 37.6%	8,057 46.5%	2,755	17,321	R+8.9
Fremont	5,344 36.8%	7,437 51.2%	1,732	14,513	R+14.4
Garfield	5,722 40.5%	6,281 44.4%	2,135	14,138	R+4.0
Montrose	4,019 32.8%	6,730 55.0%	1,490	12,239	R+22.2
Eagle	5,094 44.9%	4,637 40.9%	1,610	11,341	D+4.0
Delta	3,584 32.3%	6,047 54.5%	1,469	11,100	R+22.2
Morgan	3,347 38.4%	4,557 52.3%	803	8,707	R+13.9
Summit	3,970 47.2%	3,261 38.7%	1,188	8,419	D+8.4
Routt	3,660 46.7%	3,019 38.5%	1,158	7,837	D+8.2
Montezuma	2,578 32.9%	4,175 53.3%	1,078	7,831	R+20.4
Teller	2,312 30.0%	4,458 57.9%	925	7,695	R+27.9
Logan	2,765 36.4%	4,032 53.2%	789	7,586	R+16.7
Otero	3,386 45.5%	3,356 45.1%	695	7,437	D+0.4
Pitkin	3,949 56.5%	1,969 28.2%	1,067	6,985	D+28.3
Elbert	1,894 28.0%	4,125 61.0%	739	6,758	R+33.0
Chaffee	2,768 42.5%	3,052 46.8%	695	6,515	R+4.4
Las Animas	3,611 59.8%	1,905 31.5%	526	6,042	D+28.2
Gunnison	2,812 46.7%	2,230 37.0%	979	6,021	D+9.7
Park	1,844 35.2%	2,661 50.8%	736	5,241	R+15.6
Alamosa	2,330 47.1%	2,038 41.2%	575	4,943	D+5.9
Grand	2,012 41.1%	2,264 46.3%	614	4,890	R+5.2
Moffat	1,635 33.8%	2,466 51.0%	735	4,836	R+17.2
Prowers	1,745 37.5%	2,504 53.8%	403	4,652	R+16.3
Yuma	1,439 32.6%	2,589 58.7%	381	4,409	R+26.1
Rio Grande	1,720 40.0%	2,129 49.5%	452	4,301	R+9.5
Clear Creek	1,863 44.8%	1,746 42.0%	551	4,160	D+2.8
Archuleta	997 29.0%	1,963 57.1%	477	3,437	R+28.1
Kit Carson	1,073 31.3%	2,068 60.3%	291	3,432	R+29.0
Conejos	1,726 54.2%	1,149 36.1%	311	3,186	D+18.1
Huerfano	1,483 53.4%	996 35.9%	297	2,776	D+17.5
San Miguel	1,535 56.0%	773 28.2%	435	2,743	D+27.8
Rio Blanco	731 26.9%	1,697 62.5%	287	2,715	R+35.6
Lake	1,338 54.6%	728 29.7%	384	2,450	D+24.9
Washington	649 26.6%	1,566 64.2%	225	2,440	R+37.6
Baca	659 29.7%	1,321 59.5%	239	2,219	R+29.8
Lincoln	729 33.1%	1,272 57.7%	202	2,203	R+24.6
Bent	1,046 47.6%	917 41.7%	236	2,199	D+5.9
Phillips	706 32.3%	1,284 58.8%	195	2,185	R+26.5
Saguache	969 49.6%	712 36.5%	271	1,952	D+13.2
Ouray	569 31.7%	984 54.8%	241	1,794	R+23.1
Gilpin	799 44.7%	682 38.1%	308	1,789	D+6.5
Costilla	1,168 71.2%	333 20.3%	140	1,641	D+50.9
Custer	412 26.4%	920 58.9%	230	1,562	R+32.5
Crowley	559 40.8%	680 49.6%	132	1,371	R+8.8
Sedgwick	519 38.2%	715 52.7%	123	1,357	R+14.4
Cheyenne	328 27.9%	739 62.8%	109	1,176	R+34.9
Kiowa	246 27.8%	549 62.0%	91	886	R+34.2
Jackson	222 26.7%	486 58.3%	125	833	R+31.7
Dolores	276 34.2%	417 51.7%	114	807	R+17.5
Hinsdale	185 33.8%	289 52.8%	73	547	R+19.0
Mineral	192 43.0%	179 40.0%	76	447	D+2.9
San Juan	133 35.9%	153 41.4%	84	370	R+5.4

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

Year	Winner	Margin
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

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