Charles Norris

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Charles Norris

Democratic Party

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Last election

November 5, 2024

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Charles Norris (Democratic Party) (also known as Chuck) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Colorado's 1st Congressional District. He lost as a write-in in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Elections

2024

See also: Colorado's 1st Congressional District election, 2024

Colorado's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 25 Democratic primary)

Colorado's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 25 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Colorado District 1

The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. House Colorado District 1 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Diana DeGette (D)	76.5	264,606
		Valdamar Archuleta (R)	21.6	74,598
		Critter Milton (Unity Party)	1.2	4,084
		Daniel Lutz (Approval Voting Party)	0.7	2,351
		Charles Norris (D) (Write-in)	0.0	88
	Submit photo	John R. Johnson (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)	0.0	8

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 345,735
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Morton Brooks (Approval Voting Party)
• Dom Waters (Unity Party)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 1

Incumbent Diana DeGette defeated John Wren in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 1 on June 25, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Diana DeGette	99.8	78,548
	Submit photo	John Wren (Write-in)	0.2	130

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 78,678
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 1

Valdamar Archuleta advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 1 on June 25, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Valdamar Archuleta	100.0	11,421

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 11,421
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Lawrence Davis (R)

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Norris in this election.

2016

See also: Colorado's 1st Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Diana DeGette (D) defeated Casper Stockham (R) and Darrell Dinges (L) in the general election on November 8, 2016. DeGette defeated Charles Norris in the Democratic primary on June 28, 2016, while Stockham faced no primary opponent.

U.S. House, Colorado District 1 General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Diana DeGette Incumbent	67.9%	257,254
	Republican	Casper Stockham	27.7%	105,030
	Libertarian	Darrell Dinges	4.4%	16,752
Total Votes				379,036
Source: Colorado Secretary of State

U.S. House, Colorado, District 1 Democratic Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Diana DeGette Incumbent	86.4%	55,925
Charles Norris	13.6%	8,770
Total Votes		64,695
Source: Colorado Secretary of State

Campaign themes

2024

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2016

The following issues were listed on Norris' campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: I will help undo this abomination. If that requires amending the Constitution, we need to be very careful. Congress: Congress isn’t broken; it is dysfunctional. Broken would be better; broken would be fixed. Dysfunction works well for the monied interests that fund the national parties and most congressional candidates. Unless membership, and particularly leadership, is changed, Congress will remain dysfunctional. It is part of why I run. Campaign Finance: My campaign is PAC-free, and more. A foundation of my campaign is that my job will be to represent people, people as in living, breathing human beings, not in the Citizens United sense. PACs, unions, aggregators, political parties, other campaigns, … are not human beings. Only people can elect me. So, I will solicit and will accept contributions only from people. Constitutional Convention: Activist across the spectrum are toying with the idea of a constitutional convention, as more efficient than individual Amendments. Citizens United can be undone. Equal Rights properly guaranteed. Voting right restored. We must be cautious. A constitutional convention is not issue-limited; the whole constitution is up for grabs. In today’s political climate, we may not want to go there. I think legislation and individual Amendments are more prudent. There is no quick fix, but patience is preferable to catastrophe. Political Participation: It’s said in a thousand ways. But that doesn’t make it cliche; it’s just true. If WE don’t retake knowledgeable control of our elections and government policies, the vacuum will be filled by someone else. Right now, WE can still take back the reins. Voting isn’t enough. Political involvement needs to become socially acceptable and part of our daily lives.	”
—Charles Norris' campaign website, http://www.cnorris4cd1.org/issues/

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Footnotes

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Colorado's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Michael Bennet (D)

John Hickenlooper (D)

Representatives

District 1

Diana DeGette (D)

District 2

Joe Neguse (D)

District 3

Jeff Hurd (R)

District 4

Lauren Boebert (R)

District 5

Jeff Crank (R)

District 6

Jason Crow (D)

District 7

Brittany Pettersen (D)

District 8

Gabe Evans (R)

Democratic Party (6)

Republican Party (4)