2024 Colorado Senate election

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2024 Colorado Senate election
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November 5, 2024
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18 of the 35 seats in the Colorado Senate
18 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Robert Rodriguez Paul Lundeen
Party Democratic Republican
Leader since September 8, 2023 January 9, 2023
Leader's seat 32nd–Denver 9th–Colorado Springs
Last election 11 seats, 49.05% 6 seats, 50.27%
Seats before 23 12
Seats won 12 6
Seats after 23 12
Seat change Steady Steady
Popular vote 817,303 594,858
Percentage 56.35% 41.01%
Swing Increase 7.30 pp Decrease 9.26 pp

     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold      Republican gain
     No election

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

Steve Fenberg
Democratic

 Elected President of the Senate

James Coleman
Democratic

The 2024 Colorado Senate elections took place on November 5, 2024, with the primary elections being held on June 25, 2024.[1] Voters in 18 out of the 35 districts of the state Senate elected their representative for a four-year term.[2] This election coincided with other Colorado elections of the same year and the biennial United States elections.

In the 2020 US Presidential Election, Joe Biden won 25 districts, while Donald Trump won 10. Republicans represented three districts where Biden had won in 2020: District 6 (Biden +2.18%), represented by Cleave Simpson; District 12 (Biden +3.61%), represented by Bob Gardner; and District 30 (Biden +1.47%), represented by Kevin Van Winkle. Additionally, one Democrat, Kevin Priola, represented District 13, which Trump won by 3.78%.

Retirements

Democrats

  1. District 13: Kevin Priola is term-limited.[3]
  2. District 14: Joann Ginal is term-limited.[3]
  3. District 18: Steve Fenberg is term-limited.[3]
  4. District 19: Rachel Zenzinger is term-limited (ran for Jefferson County Commission).[3][4]
  5. District 28: Rhonda Fields is term-limited (ran for Arapahoe County Commission).[3][5]

Republicans

  1. District 2: Jim Smallwood is term-limited.[3]
  2. District 5: Perry Will retired to run for Garfield County Commission.[6]
  3. District 12: Bob Gardner is term-limited.[3]

Predictions

Statewide

Source Ranking As of
CNalysis[7] Solid D August 10, 2024
Sabato's Crystal Ball[8] Safe D June 18, 2024

Competitive districts

District Incumbent Last Result CNalysis[9]
October 13, 2024
5th Perry Will N/A[a] Tilt R
6th Cleave Simpson 60.12% R Tossup
12th Bob Gardner 58.35% R Lean D (flip)
13th Kevin Priola 50.84% R[b] Very Likely R (flip)

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. District 12, 1.35% (flip)
  2. District 21, 2.22%
  3. District 16, 4.31%
  4. District 5, 4.46%

Results by district

Footnotes

References

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