2022 Colorado Senate election

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2022 Colorado State Senate election
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November 8, 2022
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17 of the 35 seats in the Colorado Senate
18 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Dominick Moreno John Cooke
(term-limited)
Party Democratic Republican
Leader's seat 21st–Denver 13th–Greeley
Last election 20 seats, 57.81% 15 seats, 39.58%
Seats before 21 14
Seats won 11 6
Seats after 23 12
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 2
Popular vote 587,511 602,095
Percentage 49.05% 50.27%
Swing Decrease 8.76 pp Increase 10.69 pp

     Democratic gain
     Democratic hold      Republican hold
     No election

     40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      >90%
     50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      >90%
President of the Senate before election

Steve Fenberg
Democratic

 Elected President of the Senate

Steve Fenberg
Democratic

The 2022 Colorado Senate elections took place on November 8, 2022, along with elections in the State House of Representatives, with the primary elections held on June 28, 2022.[1] Voters in 17 out of the 35 districts of the Colorado Senate elected their representative for a four-year term.[2] It coincided with other Colorado elections of the same year and the biennial United States elections.

Democrats gained two seats increasing their majority to 23 out of 35 seats, with one seat shy of an outright supermajority.[3] Despite winning a majority of the votes cast, the Republican Party only won 6 of the 17 seats up for election.

In the previous state Senate election (2020), the Democrats increased their majority to five seats. In August 2022, Republican Sen. Kevin Priola announced he was changing his party affiliation to Democratic.[4] Therefore, for Democrats to lose their absolute majority in the Senate in this election, Republicans and other parties needed to gain at least four more seats.

This was the first election with the districts drawn based on the 2020 census.[5] Due to this, some districts did not have incumbents, as they chose to run in other districts that were not up for election in 2022.

Incumbents not seeking re-election

One Democratic and four Republican incumbents were term-limited and prohibited from seeking a consecutive third term. Under the laws for the state Senate, for terms to be considered non-consecutive, there needs to be a gap of at least four years between them.[2]

Democrats

Republicans

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
Sabato's Crystal Ball[6] Likely D May 19, 2022

Results

Popular vote
Republican
 
 50.27%
Democratic
 
 49.06%
Other
 
 0.67%
Senate seats
Democratic
 
 65.71%
Republican
 
 34.29%
District Incumbent Party Elected Party
1 Jerry Sonnenberg† Rep Byron Pelton Rep
3 Nick Hinrichsen Dem Nick Hinrichsen Dem
4 Jim Smallwood Rep Mark Baisley Rep
7 Ray Scott† Rep Janice Rich Rep
8 Bob Rankin Rep Dylan Roberts Dem
9 Paul Lundeen Rep Paul Lundeen Rep
11 Pete Lee† Dem Tony Exum Dem
Dennis Hisey Rep
15 Rob Woodward Rep Janice Marchman Dem
20 Rachael Zenzinger Dem Lisa A. Cutter Dem
22 Jessie Danielson Dem Jessie Danielson Dem
Brittany Pettersen†
24 No incumbent Kyle Mullica Dem
25 Faith Winter Dem Faith Winter Dem
27 Chris Kolker Dem Tom Sullivan Dem
30 Kevin Van Winkle Rep Kevin Van Winkle Rep
32 Robert Rodriguez Dem Robert Rodriguez Dem
34 Julie Gonzales Dem Julie Gonzales Dem
35 Cleave Simpson Rep Rod Pelton Rep

† - Incumbent not seeking re-election

Italics - Incumbent redistricted to different district

Bold - gain

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. District 15, 1.2% gain
  2. District 3, 2.58%
  3. District 11, 5.46% gain
  4. District 30, 7.64%
  5. District 27, 9.78%

Detailed results

Footnotes

References

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