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Election 2020 Results

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2020 presidential election in Colorado

Joe Biden (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Colorado in 2020, 55.4% to 41.9%, a margin of 13.5 points and 439,745 votes.

Colorado voted 9.0 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2016, when Hillary Clinton won.

Republicans led in 40 of the 64 counties and Democrats in 24. The largest, Denver, cast 393,747 votes and went to the Democrat by 61.4 points. The closest was Alamosa, where 54 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
Joe Biden won Democratic 1,804,352 55.4%
Donald Trump Republican 1,364,607 41.9%
All other candidates 88,021 2.7%
Total3,256,980

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Denver 313,222 79.5% 71,609 18.2% 8,916 393,747 D+61.4
El Paso 161,941 42.7% 202,828 53.5% 14,082 378,851 R+10.8
Jefferson 218,367 57.9% 148,399 39.3% 10,544 377,310 D+18.5
Arapahoe 213,687 61.0% 127,339 36.4% 9,256 350,282 D+24.7
Adams 134,205 56.7% 95,657 40.4% 6,881 236,743 D+16.3
Douglas 104,673 45.2% 121,318 52.4% 5,684 231,675 R+7.2
Larimer 126,116 56.2% 91,485 40.8% 6,729 224,330 D+15.4
Boulder 159,107 77.2% 42,511 20.6% 4,522 206,140 D+56.6
Weld 66,063 39.6% 96,149 57.6% 4,770 166,982 R+18.0
Mesa 31,537 34.8% 56,896 62.8% 2,194 90,627 R+28.0
Pueblo 43,772 49.6% 42,252 47.8% 2,277 88,301 D+1.7
Broomfield 29,075 62.3% 16,298 34.9% 1,260 46,633 D+27.4
La Plata 20,548 57.6% 14,233 39.9% 886 35,667 D+17.7
Garfield 15,425 49.9% 14,715 47.6% 759 30,899 D+2.3
Eagle 18,587 63.8% 9,892 33.9% 661 29,140 D+29.8
Fremont 7,372 28.8% 17,522 68.5% 671 25,565 R+39.7
Montrose 7,687 30.8% 16,770 67.3% 465 24,922 R+36.4
Delta 5,887 30.4% 13,080 67.5% 402 19,369 R+37.1
Elbert 4,472 23.6% 13,979 73.9% 464 18,915 R+50.3
Summit 12,630 68.4% 5,322 28.8% 526 18,478 D+39.5
Teller 5,275 31.2% 11,236 66.4% 420 16,931 R+35.2
Routt 10,582 62.7% 5,925 35.1% 368 16,875 D+27.6
Montezuma 5,836 37.7% 9,306 60.0% 358 15,500 R+22.4
Morgan 3,876 28.2% 9,592 69.8% 274 13,742 R+41.6
Chaffee 7,160 52.2% 6,222 45.4% 336 13,718 D+6.8
Park 4,903 39.9% 6,991 56.9% 397 12,291 R+17.0
Pitkin 8,991 75.2% 2,781 23.3% 188 11,960 D+51.9
Gunnison 7,132 63.7% 3,735 33.4% 323 11,190 D+30.4
Logan 2,218 21.1% 8,087 76.8% 227 10,532 R+55.7
Grand 4,710 47.7% 4,883 49.5% 276 9,869 R+1.8
Otero 3,605 37.7% 5,755 60.1% 215 9,575 R+22.5
Archuleta 3,737 40.9% 5,188 56.7% 217 9,142 R+15.9
Las Animas 3,497 43.9% 4,284 53.8% 180 7,961 R+9.9
Alamosa 3,758 48.1% 3,812 48.8% 235 7,805 R+0.7
Moffat 1,203 17.1% 5,670 80.7% 153 7,026 R+63.6
Clear Creek 3,604 55.0% 2,754 42.1% 190 6,548 D+13.0
Rio Grande 2,495 39.6% 3,659 58.0% 150 6,304 R+18.5
Prowers 1,458 26.2% 4,007 72.1% 95 5,560 R+45.8
San Miguel 3,923 76.2% 1,136 22.1% 88 5,147 D+54.1
Yuma 785 15.8% 4,108 82.5% 89 4,982 R+66.7
Huerfano 2,076 47.1% 2,203 50.0% 128 4,407 R+2.9
Conejos 1,960 45.2% 2,287 52.8% 88 4,335 R+7.5
Gilpin 2,224 53.1% 1,834 43.8% 130 4,188 D+9.3
Ouray 2,365 58.8% 1,577 39.2% 77 4,019 D+19.6
Lake 2,302 58.1% 1,496 37.8% 162 3,960 D+20.4
Kit Carson 662 17.1% 3,144 81.2% 64 3,870 R+64.1
Rio Blanco 561 15.2% 3,061 82.9% 69 3,691 R+67.7
Custer 1,112 30.6% 2,474 68.1% 49 3,635 R+37.5
Saguache 1,884 55.6% 1,414 41.7% 92 3,390 D+13.9
Washington 369 12.3% 2,595 86.3% 44 3,008 R+74.0
Lincoln 470 17.7% 2,135 80.5% 46 2,651 R+62.8
Phillips 486 19.6% 1,957 78.8% 41 2,484 R+59.2
Bent 732 32.2% 1,504 66.1% 39 2,275 R+33.9
Baca 317 14.2% 1,867 83.9% 41 2,225 R+69.7
Costilla 1,312 62.6% 742 35.4% 42 2,096 D+27.2
Crowley 437 25.0% 1,271 72.6% 42 1,750 R+47.7
Dolores 341 23.5% 1,089 75.2% 19 1,449 R+51.6
Sedgwick 301 20.8% 1,121 77.5% 24 1,446 R+56.7
Cheyenne 131 11.5% 994 87.4% 12 1,137 R+75.9
Kiowa 98 10.9% 795 88.0% 10 903 R+77.2
Jackson 175 20.0% 681 77.7% 21 877 R+57.7
Mineral 317 41.9% 428 56.5% 12 757 R+14.7
Hinsdale 256 40.4% 354 55.9% 23 633 R+15.5
San Juan 342 60.9% 202 35.9% 18 562 D+24.9

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