United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2024
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November 5, 2024 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Colorado were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected eight candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's eight U.S. House districts. The primary was June 25, 2024. The filing deadline was March 19, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Colorado -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 5 | 4 | |
| Republican Party | 3 | 4 | |
| Total | 8 | 8 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Diana DeGette (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Valdamar Archuleta (Republican Party)
- Daniel Lutz (Approval Voting Party)
- Critter Milton (Unity Party)
- Charles Norris (Democratic Party) (Write-in)
- John R. Johnson (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Morton Brooks (Approval Voting Party)
- Dom Waters (Unity Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
- Diana DeGette (Incumbent) ✔
- John Wren (Write-in)
Republican primary candidates
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District 2
General election candidates
- Joe Neguse (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Marshall Dawson (Republican Party)
- Jan Kok (Approval Voting Party)
- Gaylon Kent (Libertarian Party)
- Cynthia Munhos de Aquino Sirianni (Unity Party)
- Mike Watson (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
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- Joe Neguse (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
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District 3
General election candidates
- Adam Frisch (Democratic Party)
- Jeff Hurd (Republican Party) ✔
- James Wiley (Libertarian Party)
- Adam Withrow (Unity Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Mark Elworth Jr. (Libertarian Party)
- David Whitley (Libertarian Party)
- Frank Hernandez (Unaffiliated)
- Gary Swing (Unity Party)
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District 4
General election candidates
- Lauren Boebert (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Trisha Calvarese (Democratic Party)
- Frank Atwood (Approval Voting Party)
- Hannah Goodman (Libertarian Party)
- Paul Fiorino (Unity Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Douglas Mangeris (Libertarian Party)
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District 5
General election candidates
- River Gassen (Democratic Party)
- Jeff Crank (Republican Party) ✔
- Christopher Mitchell (American Constitution Party)
- Christopher Sweat (Forward Party)
- Michael Vance (Libertarian Party)
- Joseph O. Gaye (Unaffiliated)
- Marcus Murphy (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Calil Yarbrough (No Party Affiliation)
- Katrina Nguyen (Unaffiliated)
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District 6
General election candidates
- Jason Crow (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- John Fabbricatore (Republican Party)
- Travis Nicks (Approval Voting Party)
- John Kittleson (Libertarian Party)
- Brad Nickle (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
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- Jason Crow (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 7
General election candidates
- Brittany Pettersen (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Sergei Matveyuk (Republican Party)
- Patrick Bohan (Libertarian Party)
- Ron Tupa (Unity Party)
- Patrick Flaherty (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- Morgan Law (Unaffiliated)
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- Brittany Pettersen (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 8
General election candidates
- Yadira Caraveo (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Gabe Evans (Republican Party) ✔
- Chris Baum (Approval Voting Party)
- Susan Hall (Unity Party)
- James Treibert (Unaffiliated) (Write-in)
Did not make the ballot:
- James Garey (American Constitution Party)
- Eric Joss (Libertarian Party)
- Larry Johnson (Unaffiliated)
- Matthew Payette (Unaffiliated)
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- Yadira Caraveo (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Colorado
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Colorado's 1st Congressional District
- Colorado's 2nd Congressional District
- Colorado's 3rd Congressional District
- Colorado's 4th Congressional District
- Colorado's 5th Congressional District
- Colorado's 6th Congressional District
- Colorado's 7th Congressional District
- Colorado's 8th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Colorado in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Colorado, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Colorado | U.S. House | Major party | 10% of votes cast for the office in the last primary, or 1,500, whichever is less | N/A | 3/19/2024 | Source |
| Colorado | U.S. House | Minor party | 2.5% of votes cast for the office in the last general election, or 1,500, whichever is less | N/A | 4/1/2024 | Source |
| Colorado | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 2.5% of votes cast for the office in the last general election, or 1,500, whichever is less | N/A | 7/11/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Colorado.
| Colorado U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 31 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 37.5% | 1 | 16.7% | ||||
| 2022 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 30 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 50.0% | 4 | 66.7% | ||||
| 2020 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 14.3% | ||||
| 2018 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 42.9% | 2 | 33.3% | ||||
| 2016 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 28.6% | 3 | 42.9% | ||||
| 2014 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 21.4% | 2 | 33.3% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Colorado in 2024. Information below was calculated on May 2, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirty-two candidates ran for Colorado’s eight U.S. House districts, including 12 Democrats and 20 Republicans. That’s 4.00 candidates per district, more than in the previous three election cycles. There were 3.75 candidates per district in 2022, 2.28 candidates per district in 2020 and 3.43 in 2018.
The number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House in Colorado in 2024 is also higher than any other year this decade.
The 3rd and 5th Congressional Districts were open, meaning no incumbents ran in those districts.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-3rd) ran for the 4th Congressional District, which Ken Buck held before he resigned from Congress on March 22, 2024. Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-5th) did not run for re-election because he retired from public office.
Nine candidates—three Democrats and six Republicans—ran for the 4th Congressional District, the most candidates who ran for a seat in Colorado in 2024.
Seven primaries—three Democratic and four Republican—were contested in 2024. That’s less than the eight contested primaries in 2022 but more than the two contested primaries in 2020.
Two incumbents—Reps. Diana DeGette (D-1st) and Boebert—were in contested primaries in 2024. That's less than the four incumbents in contested primaries in 2022 but more than the one incumbent in a contested primary in 2020.
Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all eight districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Colorado, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Colorado's 1st | Diana DeGette |  Democratic |
D+29 |
| Colorado's 2nd | Joe Neguse | Democratic |
D+17 |
| Colorado's 3rd | Lauren Boebert |  Republican |
R+7 |
| Colorado's 4th | Greg Lopez | Republican |
R+13 |
| Colorado's 5th | Doug Lamborn | Republican |
R+9 |
| Colorado's 6th | Jason Crow | Democratic |
D+9 |
| Colorado's 7th | Brittany Pettersen | Democratic |
D+4 |
| Colorado's 8th | Yadira Caraveo | Democratic |
Even |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Colorado[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Colorado's 1st | 79.5% | 18.2% | ||
| Colorado's 2nd | 68.7% | 28.8% | ||
| Colorado's 3rd | 44.7% | 52.9% | ||
| Colorado's 4th | 39.5% | 58.0% | ||
| Colorado's 5th | 43.1% | 53.2% | ||
| Colorado's 6th | 60.6% | 36.8% | ||
| Colorado's 7th | 55.7% | 41.5% | ||
| Colorado's 8th | 50.8% | 46.3% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Colorado's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Colorado | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Republican | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 8 | 10 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Colorado's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Colorado, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Jared Polis
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| Lieutenant Governor | Dianne Primavera
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| Secretary of State | Jena Griswold
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| Attorney General | Phil Weiser
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State legislature
Colorado State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 23 | |
| Republican Party | 12 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 35 | |
Colorado House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 46 | |
| Republican Party | 19 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 65 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Colorado Party Control: 1992-2024
Twelve years of Democratic trifectas • Four years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
