Political party strength in Colorado
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Political party strength in Colorado
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Colorado:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Conservative Republican (CR), Democratic (D), no party (N), Populist (P), Republican (R), Silver Republican (SR), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
| Year | Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||
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| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
| 1861 | William Gilpin (N)[1][2] | no such office | Lewis Ledyard Weld (N) | James E. Dalliba (R) | no such bodies | no such office | Hiram Pitt Bennet (CR)[3] | none | |||
| 1862 | |||||||||||
| John Evans (N)[1][4] | Samuel Hitt Elbert (N) | Samuel E. Brown (R) | |||||||||
| 1863 | |||||||||||
| 1864 | |||||||||||
| 1865 | Allen Alexander Bradford (R)[3] | ||||||||||
| Alexander Cummings (N)[5] | George W. Chamberlain (R) | ||||||||||
| 1866 | Frank Hall (N) | ||||||||||
| 1867 | George Miles Chilcott (R)[3] | ||||||||||
| Alexander Cameron Hunt (N)[5] | |||||||||||
| 1868 | |||||||||||
| 1869 | Allen Alexander Bradford (R)[3] | ||||||||||
| Edward M. McCook (N)[6][7] | Henry C. Thatcher (R) | ||||||||||
| 1870 | |||||||||||
| 1871 | Jerome Bunty Chaffee (R)[3] | ||||||||||
| 1872 | |||||||||||
| 1873 | |||||||||||
| Samuel Hitt Elbert (N)[6][8] | vacant[9] | ||||||||||
| 1874 | |||||||||||
| Edward M. McCook (N)[6] | John W. Jenkins (N) | ||||||||||
| 1875 | Thomas M. Patterson (D)[3] | ||||||||||
| John Long Routt (N)[6] | John Taffe (N) | ||||||||||
| 1876 | John Long Routt (R) | Lafayette Head (R) | William Clark (R) | Henry M. Teller (R) | Jerome B. Chaffee (R) | James Burns Belford (R) | Rutherford B. Hayes and Wm. Wheeler (R)  |
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| 1877 | A.J. Sampson (R) | Thomas MacDonald Patterson (D) | |||||||||
| 1878 | |||||||||||
| 1879 | Frederick Walker Pitkin (R) | Horace Austin Warner Tabor (R) | Norman Meldrum (R) | Charles W. Wright (R) | Nathaniel P. Hill (R) | James Burns Belford (R) | |||||
| 1880 | James Garfield and Chester Arthur (R) |
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| 1881 | Charles H. Toll (R) | ||||||||||
| 1882 | George M. Chilcott (R) | ||||||||||
| 1883 | James Benton Grant (D) | William H. Meyer (R) | Melvin Edwards (R) | David F. Urmy (R) | Horace Tabor (R) | ||||||
| Thomas M. Bowen (R) | |||||||||||
| 1884 | James Blaine and John Logan (R)  |
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| 1885 | Benjamin Harrison Eaton (R) | Peter W. Breene (R) | Theodore H. Thomas (R) | Henry M. Teller (R) | George Gifford Symes (R) | ||||||
| 1886 | |||||||||||
| 1887 | Alva Adams (D) | Norman H. Meldrum (D) | James Rice (R) | Alvin Marsh (R) | |||||||
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton (R) |
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| 1889 | Job Adams Cooper (R) | William Grover Smith (R) | Samuel W. Jones (R) | Edward O. Wolcott (R) | Hosea Townsend (R) | ||||||
| 1890 | |||||||||||
| 1891 | John Long Routt (R) | William Story (R) | Edward J. Eaton (R) | Joseph H. Maupin (D) | |||||||
| 1892 | James Weaver and James Field (P) |
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| 1893 | Davis Hanson Waite (P) | David Hopkinson Nichols (P) | Nelson O. McCless (P) | Eugene Engley (D) | 2P | ||||||
| 1894 | |||||||||||
| 1895 | Albert Washington McIntire (R) | Jared L. Brush (R) | Albert B. McGaffey (R) | Byron L. Carr (R) | 1P, 1R | ||||||
| 1896 | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) |
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| 1897 | Alva Adams (D) | Charles H.S. Whipple (D) | Henry M. Teller (SR) | 1P, 1SR | |||||||
| 1898 | |||||||||||
| 1899 | Charles Spalding Thomas (D) | Francis Patrick Carney (P) | Elmer F. Beckwith (D) | David M. Campbell (R) | |||||||
| 1900 | William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) |
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| 1901 | James Bradley Orman (D) | David Courtney Coates (D) | David A. Mills (D) | Charles C. Post (R) | Thomas M. Patterson (D) | ||||||
| 1902 | Warren A. Haggott (R) | ||||||||||
| 1903 | James Hamilton Peabody (R) | Jesse Fuller McDonald (R) | James Cowie (R) | Nathan C. Miller (R) | Henry M. Teller (D) | 2R, 1D | |||||
| 1904 | 3R | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Fairbanks (R) |
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| 1905 | Alva Adams (D)[10] | Arthur Cornforth (D) | |||||||||
| James Hamilton Peabody (R)[10] | Jesse Fuller McDonald (R) | ||||||||||
| Jesse Fuller McDonald (R)[10] | Fred W. Parks (R) | ||||||||||
| 1906 | |||||||||||
| 1907 | Henry Augustus Buchtel (R) | Erastus Harper (R) | Timothy O'Connor (R) | William H. Dickson (R) | Simon Guggenheim (R) | ||||||
| 1908 | William Jennings Bryan and John W. Kern (D) |
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| 1909 | John F. Shafroth (D) | Stephen R. Fitzgarrald (D) | James B. Pearce (D) | John T. Barnett (D) | Charles J. Hughes, Jr. (D) | 3D | |||||
| 1910 | |||||||||||
| 1911 | Benjamin Griffith (R) | vacant | |||||||||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) |
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| 1913 | Elias M. Ammons (D) | Fred Farrar (D) | John F. Shafroth (D) | Charles S. Thomas (D) | 4D | ||||||
| 1914 | |||||||||||
| 1915 | George Alfred Carlson (R) | Moses E. Lewis (R) | John E. Ramer (R) | 3D, 1R | |||||||
| 1916 | |||||||||||
| 1917 | Julius Caldeen Gunter (D) | James A. Pulliam (D) | James R. Noland (D) | Leslie E. Hubbard (D) | |||||||
| 1918 | |||||||||||
| 1919 | Oliver Henry Shoup (R) | George Stepham (R) | Victor E. Keyes (R) | Lawrence C. Phipps (R) | 3R, 1D | ||||||
| 1920 | Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) |
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| 1921 | Earl Cooley (R) | Carl Miliken (R) | Samuel D. Nicholson (R) | ||||||||
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| 1923 | William Ellery Sweet (D) | Robert F. Rockwell (R) | Russel W. Fleming (D) | Alva B. Adams (D) | |||||||
| 1924 | Wayne C. Williams (D) | Rice W. Means (R) | Calvin Coolidge and Charles Dawes (R) |
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| 1925 | Clarence Morley (R) | Sterling Byrd Lacy (D) | William Boatright (R) | ||||||||
| 1926 | |||||||||||
| 1927 | Billy Adams (D) | George Milton Corlett (R) | Charles Armstrong (R) | Charles W. Waterman (R) | 2R, 2D | ||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) |
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| 1929 | Robert E. Winbourn (R) | 3R, 1D | |||||||||
| 1930 | John S. Underwood (R) | ||||||||||
| 1931 | Edwin C. Johnson (D) | Clarence L. Ireland (R) | Edward P. Costigan (D) | ||||||||
| 1932 | Walter Walker (D) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) |
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| 1933 | Edwin C. Johnson (D)[11] | Ray Herbert Talbot (D) | Paul P. Prosser (D) | Karl C. Schuyler (R) | 4D | ||||||
| 1934 | Alva B. Adams (D) | ||||||||||
| 1935 | James Carr (D) | ||||||||||
| 1936 | George Saunders (D) | Byron G. Rogers (D) | |||||||||
| 1937 | Ray Herbert Talbot (D)[12] | vacant | Edwin C. Johnson (D) | ||||||||
| Teller Ammons (D) | Frank J. Hayes (D) | ||||||||||
| 1938 | |||||||||||
| 1939 | Ralph Lawrence Carr (R) | John Charles Vivian (R) | |||||||||
| 1940 | Wendell Willkie and Charles McNary (R) |
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| 1941 | Walter Morrison (R) | Gail L. Ireland (R) | Eugene Millikin (R) | 3R, 1D | |||||||
| 1942 | |||||||||||
| 1943 | John Charles Vivian (R) | William Eugene Higby (R) | 4R | ||||||||
| 1944 | Thomas Dewey and John Bricker (R) |
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| 1945 | H. Lawrence Hinkley (R) | ||||||||||
| 1946 | |||||||||||
| 1947 | William Lee Knous (D)[13] | Homer L. Pearson (D) | 3R, 1D | ||||||||
| 1948 | Harry S Truman and Alben Barkley (D) | ||||||||||
| 1949 | Walter Walford Johnson (D) | George Baker (D) | John W. Metzger (D) | 3D, 1R | |||||||
| 1950 | |||||||||||
| Walter Walford Johnson (D)[12] | Charles P. Murphy (R) | ||||||||||
| 1951 | Daniel I.J. Thornton (R) | Gordon L. Allott (R) | Duke W. Dunbar (R) | 2D, 2R | |||||||
| 1952 | Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) |
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| 1953 | Homer Bruce (R) | ||||||||||
| 1954 | |||||||||||
| 1955 | Edwin C. Johnson (D) | Stephen L.R. McNichols (D) | George Baker (D) | Gordon L. Allott (R) | |||||||
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| 1957 | Stephen L.R. McNichols (D)[14] | Frank L. Hays (R) | John A. Carroll (D) | ||||||||
| 1958 | |||||||||||
| 1959 | Robert Lee Knous (D) | 3D, 1R | |||||||||
| 1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) |
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| 1961 | 2D, 2R | ||||||||||
| 1962 | |||||||||||
| 1963 | John Arthur Love (R)[15] | Bryon A. Anderson (R) | Peter H. Dominick (R) | ||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) |
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| 1965 | 4D | ||||||||||
| 1966 | |||||||||||
| 1967 | Mark Anthony Hogan (R) | 3D, 1R | |||||||||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) |
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| 1969 | |||||||||||
| 1970 | |||||||||||
| 1971 | John David Vanderhoof (R) | 2D, 2R | |||||||||
| 1972 | |||||||||||
| 1973 | Floyd K. Haskell (D) | 3R, 2D | |||||||||
| John David Vanderhoof (R) | Ted L. Strickland (R)[12] | John P. Moore (R) | |||||||||
| 1974 | Mary Estill Buchanan (R) | ||||||||||
| 1975 | Richard Lamm (D) | George L. Brown (D) | J.D. MacFarlane (D) | Sam Brown (D) | Gary Hart (D) | 3D, 2R | |||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford and Robert Dole (R) |
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| 1977 | Roy Romer (D) | ||||||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||||
| 1979 | Nancy E. Dick (D) | William L. Armstrong (R) | |||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) |
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| 1981 | |||||||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||||
| 1983 | Natalie Meyer (R) | Duane Woodard (R) | 3D, 3R | ||||||||
| 1984 | |||||||||||
| 1985 | 4R, 2D | ||||||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||||
| 1987 | Roy Romer (D) | Mike Callihan (D) | Duane Woodard (D)[16] | Gail Schoettler (D) | Tim Wirth (D) | 3R, 3D | |||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1989 | |||||||||||
| 1990 | |||||||||||
| 1991 | Gale Norton (R) | Hank Brown (R) | |||||||||
| 1992 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) |
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| 1993 | Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D) | 4R, 2D | |||||||||
| 1994 | Samuel H. Cassidy (D) | ||||||||||
| 1995 | Gail Schoettler (D) | Vikki Buckley (R)[17] | Bill Owens (R) | Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R) | |||||||
| 1996 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) |
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| 1997 | Wayne Allard (R) | ||||||||||
| 1998 | |||||||||||
| 1999 | Bill Owens (R) | Joe Rogers (R) | Ken Salazar (D) | Mike Coffman (R) | |||||||
| Donetta Davidson (R)[18] | |||||||||||
| 2000 | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) |
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| 2001 | |||||||||||
| 2002 | |||||||||||
| 2003 | Jane E. Norton (R) | 5R, 2D | |||||||||
| 2004 | |||||||||||
| 2005 | John Suthers (R) | Ken Salazar (D)[19] | 4R, 3D | ||||||||
| Gigi Dennis (R)[20] | Mark Hillman (R)[20] | ||||||||||
| 2006 | |||||||||||
| Mike Coffman (R)[21] | |||||||||||
| 2007 | Bill Ritter (D) | Barbara O'Brien (D) | Mike Coffman (R)[22] | Cary Kennedy (D) | 20D, 15R | 40D, 25R | 4D, 3R | ||||
| 2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) |
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| 2009 | 21D, 14R | 38D, 27R | Mark Udall (D) | 5D, 2R | |||||||
| Bernie Buescher (D)[20] | Michael Bennet (D)[18] | ||||||||||
| 2010 | |||||||||||
| 2011 | John Hickenlooper (D) | Joseph A. Garcia (D) | Scott Gessler (R) | Walker Stapleton (R) | 20D, 15R | 33R, 32D | 4R, 3D | ||||
| 2012 | |||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | |||||||||
Notes
- ^ a b Territorial governor appointed by President Abraham Lincoln.
- ^ The territory was formed on February 28, 1861, but no governor was appointed until March 25, 1861. Gilpin himself did not arrive in the territory until May 27, 1861. Removed from office for improper financial drafts from the federal treasury.
- ^ a b c d e f Delegate from the Colorado Territory.
- ^ Resigned at the request, made July 18, 1865, of President Andrew Johnson following the Sand Creek Massacre.
- ^ a b Territorial governor appointed by President Andrew Johnson.
- ^ a b c d Territorial governor appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant.
- ^ Removed from office by petition.
- ^ Records show Elbert served "less than a year", but his successor was appointed on June 19, 1874, which was 14 months after Elbert took office.
- ^ Position was filled by the U.S. Attorney due to lack of funding by the territorial government.
- ^ a b c The 1904 election was rife with fraud and controversy. Adams took office, but soon afterwards the Republican-majority state legislature declared James Peabody to be the actual winner, on the condition that Peabody immediately resign. Since Peabody had been governor for a few moments before resigning, it was his lieutenant governor, Jesse McDonald, that succeeded to the governorship. In all, Colorado had three governors on March 17, 1905.
- ^ Resigned to take elected seat in the United States Senate.
- ^ a b c As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
- ^ Resigned to take seat on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
- ^ Gubernatorial terms changed from two to four years during McNichols' term; his first term was two years, his second term was four years.
- ^ Resigned to become director of the Office of Energy Policy.
- ^ Entered office as a Republican but by 1990 had switched parties and become a Democrat.
- ^ Died in office, July 24, 2999.
- ^ a b Initially appointed to fill vacancy; later elected in his or her own right.
- ^ Resigned following appointment as United States secretary of the interior.
- ^ a b c Appointed to fill vacancy.
- ^ Resigned in 2005 in order to re-join the United States Marine Corps, with which he then served tour-of-duty in Iraq. Upon Coffman's resignation as treasurer, Governor Bill Owens appointed State Senator Mark Hillman to the office. Hillman served as treasurer until 2006, when Coffman returned from Iraq and was able to fulfill the duties of the office.
- ^ Elected in November 2008 to U.S. House representing Colorado's 6th congressional district.
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