Colorado Springs, CO · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Colorado Springs, CO, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+12.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+10.9
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.5 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Colorado Springs, CO
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2016
481,520
104,134
194,816
172,124
10,446
2018
500,504
104,217
191,160
193,628
11,499
2020
544,720
109,830
193,677
228,304
12,909
2022
576,202
105,119
180,888
276,970
13,225
2024
619,628
103,075
179,429
320,686
16,438
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+195 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +38,919 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Colorado Springs, CO in Colorado Springs, CO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+3,630
2012
+829
2013
+2,424
2014
+1,560
2015
+3,503
2016
+8,704
2017
+7,026
2018
+7,458
2019
+3,399
2021
+1,208
2022
−131
2023
−1,413
2024
+527
2025
+195
Home to five major military bases and a dense concentration of evangelical organizations, Colorado Springs has shifted from a reliably Republican stronghold toward competitive territory as the metro's population and demographic mix have expanded.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 51.2 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.0 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.9 points.
A population of 767,824, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $90,201 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wichita, KS and Boise City, ID.
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In 2024, Colorado Springs, CO voted Republican by 10.9 points (R+10.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 397,324 votes cast, 171,662 went Democratic and 214,789 went Republican.
When did Colorado Springs, CO last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Colorado Springs, CO voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Colorado Springs, CO?
Colorado Springs, CO has a population of 767,824 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Colorado Springs, CO?
Median household income in Colorado Springs, CO is $90,201 — above the national median of $80,734. The Colorado state median is $95,470.
What is the political history of Colorado Springs, CO?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Colorado Springs, CO from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
