2024 United States presidential election in Colorado
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The 2024 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Colorado voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Colorado has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state gained a seat. Notably, despite following the nationwide trend toward the Republicans, Colorado did not see as large of a shift rightward compared to other safe blue states, but Republicans did flip one seat in Colorado's congressional delegation. Harris won by 11%, only 2 % down from Biden in 2020, significantly better than Hillary Clinton's margin of 4 % in 2016 and exceeding Barack Obama's margins in both 2008 and 2012. For the second presidential election in a row, Colorado voted to the left of neighboring New Mexico. This was the first time Colorado voted for a Democratic nominee who lost the popular vote since 1908. This was also only the second time the Democratic nominee won Colorado by double digits since 1964, after 2020. Grand County was the closest Harris came to flipping a county Trump had won in 2020, in terms of margin percentage, with her only losing the county by a mere 79 votes out of the 9,884 total votes cast in the county. This was also the only state where Trump earned a smaller percentage of the vote than his first run in 2016.