Political party strength in Colorado facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Colorado:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Conservative Republican (CR), Democratic (D), no party (N), Populist (P), Republican (R), Silver Republican (SR), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
Year | Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||
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Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
1861 | William Gilpin (N) | no such office | Lewis Ledyard Weld (N) | James E. Dalliba (R) | George T. Clark (N) | no such bodies | no such office | Hiram Pitt Bennet (CR) | none | ||
1862 | |||||||||||
1863 | John Evans (N) | Samuel Hitt Elbert (N) | Samuel E. Brown (R) | ||||||||
1864 | Alexander W. Atkins (N) | ||||||||||
1865 | Allen Alexander Bradford (R) | ||||||||||
1866 | Alexander Cummings (N) | Frank Hall (N) | George W. Chamberlain (R) | Alexander Cameron Hunt (N) | |||||||
1867 | John Wanless (N) | George Miles Chilcott (R) | |||||||||
1868 | Alexander Cameron Hunt (N) | Columbus Nuckolls (N) | |||||||||
1869 | Allen Alexander Bradford (R) | ||||||||||
1870 | Edward M. McCook (N) | Henry C. Thatcher (R) | George T. Clark (N) | ||||||||
1871 | Jerome Bunty Chaffee (R) | ||||||||||
1872 | |||||||||||
1873 | Samuel Hitt Elbert (N) | vacant | |||||||||
1874 | Edward M. McCook (N) | John W. Jenkins (N) | David H. Moffat (N) | ||||||||
1875 | John Long Routt (N) | John Taffe (N) | Thomas M. Patterson (D) | ||||||||
1876 | John Long Routt (R) | Lafayette Head (R) | William Clark (R) | Fred Z. Solomon (N) | 19R, 7D | 31R, 18D | Henry M. Teller (R) | Jerome B. Chaffee (R) | James Burns Belford (R) | Rutherford B. Hayes and Wm. Wheeler (R) | |
1877 | A.J. Sampson (R) | George C. Corning (N) | Thomas M. Patterson (D) | ||||||||
1878 | |||||||||||
1879 | Frederick Walker Pitkin (R) | Horace Austin Warner Tabor (R) | Norman Meldrum (R) | Charles W. Wright (R) | Nathan C. Culver (N) | 36R, 12D, 1G | Nathaniel P. Hill (R) | James Burns Belford (R) | |||
1880 | James Garfield and Chester Arthur (R) | ||||||||||
1881 | Charles H. Toll (R) | W. C. Sanders (N) | 23R, 3D | 36R, 13D | |||||||
1882 | George M. Chilcott (R) | ||||||||||
1883 | James Benton Grant (D) | William H. Meyer (R) | Melvin Edwards (R) | David F. Urmy (R) | Fred Walsen (N) | 17R, 9D | Horace Tabor (R) | ||||
Thomas M. Bowen (R) | |||||||||||
1884 | James Blaine and John Logan (R) | ||||||||||
1885 | Benjamin Harrison Eaton (R) | Peter W. Breene (R) | Theodore H. Thomas (R) | George R. Swallow (N) | 19R, 7D | 35R, 13D, 1I | Henry M. Teller (R) | George Gifford Symes (R) | |||
1886 | |||||||||||
1887 | Alva Adams (D) | Norman H. Meldrum (D) | James Rice (R) | Alvin Marsh (R) | Peter W. Breene (N) | 18R, 8D | 25R, 23D, 1I | ||||
1888 | Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton (R) | ||||||||||
1889 | Job Adams Cooper (R) | William Grover Smith (R) | Samuel W. Jones (R) | William Brisbane (N) | 20R, 6D | 43R, 6D | Edward O. Wolcott (R) | Hosea Townsend (R) | |||
1890 | |||||||||||
1891 | John Long Routt (R) | William Story (R) | Edward J. Eaton (R) | Joseph H. Maupin (D) | James N. Carlile (N) | 16R, 10D | 32R, 17D | ||||
1892 | James Weaver and James Field (P) | ||||||||||
1893 | Davis Hanson Waite (P) | David Hopkinson Nichols (P) | Nelson O. McCless (P) | Eugene Engley (D) | Albert Nance (N) | 15R, 12P, 8D | 33R, 27P, 5D | 2P | |||
1894 | |||||||||||
1895 | Albert Washington McIntire (R) | Jared L. Brush (R) | Albert B. McGaffey (R) | Byron L. Carr (R) | Harry E. Mulnix (N) | 18P, 16R, 1D | 41R, 14P, 10D | 1P, 1R | |||
1896 | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) | ||||||||||
1897 | Alva Adams (D) | Charles H.S. Whipple (D) | George W. Kephart (N) | 16R, 14P, 4D, 1SR | 33P, 20D, 11R, 1SR | Henry M. Teller (SR) | 1P, 1SR | ||||
1898 | |||||||||||
1899 | Charles Spalding Thomas (D) | Francis Patrick Carney (P) | Elmer F. Beckwith (D) | David M. Campbell (R) | John H. Fesler (N) | 15SR, 9P, 9D, 2R | 21D, 20P, 16SR, 6R | ||||
1900 | William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) | ||||||||||
1901 | James Bradley Orman (D) | David Courtney Coates (D) | David A. Mills (D) | Charles C. Post (R) | James N. Chipley (N) | 19D, 7P. 6SR, 2R, 1 Single Tax | 37D, 13P, 8SR, 7R | Thomas M. Patterson (D) | |||
1902 | Warren A. Haggott (R) | ||||||||||
1903 | James Hamilton Peabody (R) | Jesse Fuller McDonald (R) | James Cowie (R) | Nathan C. Miller (R) | Whitney Newton (N) | 24D, 11R | 36R, 29D | Henry M. Teller (D) | 2R, 1D | ||
1904 | 3R | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||
1905 | Alva Adams (D) | Arthur Cornforth (D) | John A. Holmbert (N) | 19R, 16D | |||||||
James Hamilton Peabody (R) | Jesse Fuller McDonald (R) | ||||||||||
Jesse Fuller McDonald (R) | Fred W. Parks (R) | ||||||||||
1906 | |||||||||||
1907 | Henry Augustus Buchtel (R) | Erastus Harper (R) | Timothy O'Connor (R) | William H. Dickson (R) | Alfred E. Bent (N) | 24R, 11D | 46R, 19D | Simon Guggenheim (R) | |||
1908 | William Jennings Bryan and John W. Kern (D) | ||||||||||
1909 | John F. Shafroth (D) | Stephen R. Fitzgarrald (D) | James B. Pearce (D) | John T. Barnett (D) | W. J. Galligan (N) | 20D, 15R | 53D, 12R | Charles J. Hughes, Jr. (D) | 3D | ||
1910 | |||||||||||
1911 | Benjamin Griffith (R) | Roady Kenehan (N) | 26D, 9R | 40D, 25R | vacant | ||||||
1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | ||||||||||
1913 | Elias M. Ammons (D) | Fred Farrar (D) | M. A. Leddy (N) | 24D, 11R | 48D, 17R | John F. Shafroth (D) | Charles S. Thomas (D) | 4D | |||
1914 | |||||||||||
1915 | George Alfred Carlson (R) | Moses E. Lewis (R) | John E. Ramer (R) | Allison Stocker (N) | 18R, 17D | 36R, 29D | 3D, 1R | ||||
1916 | |||||||||||
1917 | Julius Caldeen Gunter (D) | James A. Pulliam (D) | James R. Noland (D) | Leslie E. Hubbard (D) | Robert H. Higgins (N) | 18D, 17R | 45D, 20R | ||||
1918 | |||||||||||
1919 | Oliver Henry Shoup (R) | George Stepham (R) | Victor E. Keyes (R) | Harry E. Mulnix (N) | 21D, 14R | 41R, 24D | Lawrence C. Phipps (R) | 3R, 1D | |||
1920 | Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | ||||||||||
1921 | Earl Cooley (R) | Carl Miliken (R) | Arthur Strong (N) | 24R, 11D | 58R, 7D | Samuel D. Nicholson (R) | |||||
1922 | |||||||||||
1923 | William Ellery Sweet (D) | Robert F. Rockwell (R) | Russel W. Fleming (D) | Harry E. Mulnix (N) | 33R, 32D | Alva B. Adams (D) | |||||
1924 | Wayne C. Williams (D) | Rice W. Means (R) | Calvin Coolidge and Charles Dawes (R) | ||||||||
1925 | Clarence Morley (R) | Sterling Byrd Lacy (D) | William Boatright (R) | W. D. MacGinnis (N) | 21R, 14D | 53R, 12D | |||||
1926 | |||||||||||
1927 | Billy Adams (D) | George Milton Corlett (R) | Charles Armstrong (R) | Harry E. Mulnix (N) | 20R, 15D | 43R, 22D | Charles W. Waterman (R) | 2R, 2D | |||
1928 | Herbert Fairall (N) | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | |||||||||
1929 | Robert E. Winbourn (R) | W. D. MacGinnis (N) | 24R, 11D | 46R, 19D | 3R, 1D | ||||||
1930 | John S. Underwood (R) | ||||||||||
1931 | Edwin C. Johnson (D) | Clarence L. Ireland (R) | John M. Jackson (N) | 22R, 13D | 34D, 31R | Edward P. Costigan (D) | |||||
1932 | Walter Walker (D) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | |||||||||
1933 | Edwin C. Johnson (D) | Ray Herbert Talbot (D) | Paul P. Prosser (D) | Homer Bedford (D) | 26D, 9R | 54D, 11R | Karl C. Schuyler (R) | 4D | |||
1934 | Alva B. Adams (D) | ||||||||||
1935 | James Carr (D) | Charles Armstrong (R) | 29D, 6R | 50D, 15R | |||||||
1936 | George Saunders (D) | Byron G. Rogers (D) | |||||||||
1937 | Ray Herbert Talbot (D) | vacant | Homer Bedford (D) | Edwin C. Johnson (D) | |||||||
Teller Ammons (D) | Frank J. Hayes (D) | ||||||||||
1938 | |||||||||||
1939 | Ralph Lawrence Carr (R) | John Charles Vivian (R) | Charles Armstrong (R) | 23D, 12R | 37R, 28D | ||||||
1940 | Wendell Willkie and Charles McNary (R) | ||||||||||
1941 | Walter Morrison (R) | Gail L. Ireland (R) | Homer Bedford (D) | 18D, 17R | Eugene Millikin (R) | 3R, 1D | |||||
1942 | |||||||||||
1943 | John Charles Vivian (R) | William Eugene Higby (R) | Leon Lavington (R) | 23R, 12D | 55R, 10D | 4R | |||||
1944 | Thomas Dewey and John Bricker (R) | ||||||||||
1945 | H. Lawrence Hinkley (R) | Homer Bedford (D) | 27R, 8D | 46R, 19D | |||||||
1946 | |||||||||||
1947 | William Lee Knous (D) | Homer L. Pearson (D) | Rodney Anderson (R) | 3R, 1D | |||||||
1948 | Harry S Truman and Alben Barkley (D) | ||||||||||
1949 | Walter Walford Johnson (D) | George Baker (D) | John W. Metzger (D) | Homer Bedford (D) | 19R, 16D | 39D, 26R | 3D, 1R | ||||
1950 | |||||||||||
Walter Walford Johnson (D) | Charles P. Murphy (R) | ||||||||||
1951 | Daniel I.J. Thornton (R) | Gordon L. Allott (R) | Duke W. Dunbar (R) | Earl E. Ewing (R) | 20R, 15D | 47R, 18D | 2D, 2R | ||||
1952 | Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | ||||||||||
1953 | Homer Bruce (R) | Homer Bedford (D) | 23R, 12D | 45R, 20D | |||||||
1954 | |||||||||||
1955 | Edwin C. Johnson (D) | Stephen L.R. McNichols (D) | George Baker (D) | Earl E. Ewing (R) | 20R, 15D | 38R, 27D | Gordon L. Allott (R) | ||||
1956 | |||||||||||
1957 | Stephen L.R. McNichols (D) | Frank L. Hays (R) | Homer Bedford (D) | 21D, 14R | 38D, 27R | John A. Carroll (D) | |||||
1958 | |||||||||||
1959 | Robert Lee Knous (D) | Tim Armstrong (D) | 22D, 13R | 44D, 21R | 3D, 1R | ||||||
1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) | ||||||||||
1961 | 19D, 16R | 33D, 32R | 2D, 2R | ||||||||
1962 | |||||||||||
1963 | John Arthur Love (R) | Bryon A. Anderson (R) | Homer Bedford (D) | 20R, 15D | 41R, 24D | Peter H. Dominick (R) | |||||
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | ||||||||||
1965 | 42D, 23R | 4D | |||||||||
1966 | |||||||||||
1967 | Mark Anthony Hogan (D) | Virginia Blue (R) | 37R, 28D | 3D, 1R | |||||||
1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | ||||||||||
1969 | 24R, 11D | 38R, 27D | |||||||||
1970 | |||||||||||
Julia Swearingen (R) | |||||||||||
1971 | John David Vanderhoof (R) | Palmer Burch (R) | 21R, 14D | 2D, 2R | |||||||
1972 | |||||||||||
1973 | 22R, 13D | 37R, 28D | Floyd K. Haskell (D) | 3R, 2D | |||||||
John David Vanderhoof (R) | Ted L. Strickland (R) | John P. Moore (R) | |||||||||
1974 | Mary Estill Buchanan (R) | ||||||||||
1975 | Richard Lamm (D) | George L. Brown (D) | J.D. MacFarlane (D) | Sam Brown (D) | 19R, 16D | 39D, 26R | Gary Hart (D) | 3D, 2R | |||
1976 | Gerald Ford and Robert Dole (R) | ||||||||||
1977 | Roy Romer (D) | 18R, 17D | 35R, 30D | ||||||||
1978 | |||||||||||
1979 | Nancy E. Dick (D) | 22R, 13D | 38R, 27D | William L. Armstrong (R) | |||||||
1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | ||||||||||
1981 | 39R, 26D | ||||||||||
1982 | |||||||||||
1983 | Natalie Meyer (R) | Duane Woodard (R) | 40R, 25D | 3D, 3R | |||||||
1984 | |||||||||||
1985 | 24R, 11D | 48R, 17D | 4R, 2D | ||||||||
1986 | |||||||||||
1987 | Roy Romer (D) | Mike Callihan (D) | Duane Woodard (D) | Gail Schoettler (D) | 25R, 10D | 41R, 24D | Tim Wirth (D) | 3R, 3D | |||
1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | ||||||||||
1989 | 24R, 11D | 40R, 25D | |||||||||
1990 | |||||||||||
1991 | Gale Norton (R) | 23R, 12D | 38R, 27D | Hank Brown (R) | |||||||
1992 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | ||||||||||
1993 | 19R, 16D | 34R, 31D | Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D) | 4R, 2D | |||||||
1994 | Samuel H. Cassidy (D) | ||||||||||
1995 | Gail Schoettler (D) | Vikki Buckley (R) | Bill Owens (R) | 41R, 24D | Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R) | ||||||
1996 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) | ||||||||||
1997 | 20R, 15D | Wayne Allard (R) | |||||||||
1998 | |||||||||||
1999 | Bill Owens (R) | Joe Rogers (R) | Ken Salazar (D) | Mike Coffman (R) | 21R, 14D | 39R, 26D | |||||
Donetta Davidson (R) | |||||||||||
2000 | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) | ||||||||||
2001 | 18D, 17R | 38R, 27D | |||||||||
2002 | |||||||||||
2003 | Jane E. Norton (R) | 18R, 17D | 37R, 28D | 5R, 2D | |||||||
2004 | |||||||||||
2005 | John Suthers (R) | 18D, 17R | 33D, 32R | Ken Salazar (D) | 4R, 3D | ||||||
Gigi Dennis (R) | Mark Hillman (R) | ||||||||||
2006 | |||||||||||
Mike Coffman (R) | |||||||||||
2007 | Bill Ritter (D) | Barbara O'Brien (D) | Mike Coffman (R) | Cary Kennedy (D) | 20D, 15R | 39D, 26R | 4D, 3R | ||||
2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) | ||||||||||
2009 | 21D, 14R | 38D, 27R | Mark Udall (D) | 5D, 2R | |||||||
Bernie Buescher (D) | Michael Bennet (D) | ||||||||||
2010 | |||||||||||
2011 | John Hickenlooper (D) | Joseph A. Garcia (D) | Scott Gessler (R) | Walker Stapleton (R) | 20D, 15R | 33R, 32D | 4R, 3D | ||||
2012 | |||||||||||
2013 | 37D, 28R | ||||||||||
2014 | 18D, 17R | ||||||||||
2015 | Wayne W. Williams (R) | Cynthia Coffman (R) | 18R, 17D | 34D, 31R | Cory Gardner (R) | ||||||
2016 | Donna Lynne (D) | Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (D) | |||||||||
2017 | 37D, 28R | ||||||||||
Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress |
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