Steamboat 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 Steamboat 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+7.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+1.5
Steamboat Springs, CO registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 9.2-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Steamboat Springs, CO
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2016
30,270
7,239
10,895
11,505
631
2018
31,325
7,107
10,546
13,078
594
2020
31,590
7,021
10,111
13,852
606
2022
32,549
6,821
9,499
15,613
616
2024
33,515
6,557
9,157
17,063
738
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−512 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −1,374 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Steamboat Springs, CO in Steamboat Springs, CO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−867
2012
−482
2013
−4
2014
0
2015
+24
2016
+275
2017
+198
2018
+207
2019
+6
2021
+55
2022
−3
2023
−11
2024
−260
2025
−512
Routt County's ski economy draws high-income transplants who have gradually softened a historically Republican lean, making Steamboat Springs one of Colorado's more competitive small mountain markets.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.7 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 49.2 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 0.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.5 points.
A population of 38,291, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,231 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jackson, WY-ID and Truckee-Grass Valley, CA.
Akashic
Political twins — metros
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
Compare two places, side by side
Twelve curated comparisons line up election history, demographics, and the divergence story for two places at a glance. Browse all comparisons →
Cite this page
All citations released under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Akashic Intelligence.
Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cbsa/44460/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
License: CC BY 4.0
Embed this page
A live widget for your site — no API key, attribution built in, CC BY 4.0. All widgets & sizes →
How did Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado vote in 2024?
In 2024, Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado voted Democratic by 1.5 points (D+1.5), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 23,006 votes cast, 11,375 went Democratic and 11,034 went Republican.
When did Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado?
Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado has a population of 38,291 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado?
Median household income in Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado is $95,231 — above the national median of $80,734. The Colorado state median is $95,470.
What is the political history of Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Steamboat Springs, CO, Colorado from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
