Denver · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
William J. Bryan1896
83.9%
116,751 votes · D+69.1
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 61.4%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
65.3%
215,420 votes · R+31.9
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 63.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
1,527,962votes
58.0% of the vote · D+18.6
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 1,448,567 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,048,068votes
40.8% of the vote · D+15.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,037,000 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
William J. Bryan1896
+75.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+69.1 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +23.9 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+41.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +17.5 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Denver · 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 Denver, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama53Clinton14106,173 votes · 67 of 67 countiescaucus
○no contest record
Sanders53Clinton13107,512 votes · 66 of 67 countiescaucus
Sanders43Biden22Bloomberg2815,739 votes · 67 of 67 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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 · 2026R+63.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+15.6
Denver registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 79-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Denver
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2016 (partial)
2,996,982
990,594
848,866
1,102,351
55,171
2018 (partial)
3,092,496
987,458
815,654
1,232,624
56,760
2020 (partial)
3,295,381
1,034,065
807,471
1,392,916
60,929
2022 (partial)
3,409,241
1,002,551
749,422
1,594,344
62,924
2024 (partial)
3,573,698
983,879
741,421
1,766,945
81,453
2026 (partial)
91,868
10,495
68,620
11,179
1,574
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−14,288 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +266,707 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Denver in Denver: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+23,086
2012
+28,980
2013
+33,895
2014
+37,021
2015
+49,895
2016
+32,653
2017
+19,371
2018
+27,922
2019
+23,944
2021
−936
2022
+1,044
2023
+3,040
2024
+1,080
2025
−14,288
The Denver DMA anchors Colorado's political center of gravity, blending a reliably Democratic urban core with fast-growing collar counties — Jefferson, Arapahoe, and Douglas — that have shifted measurably toward competitive territory over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 69.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 39.4 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.6 points.
A population of 4,705,362, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,183 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Austin and Portland, OR.
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In 2024, Denver, Colorado voted Democratic by 15.6 points (D+15.6), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 2,566,951 votes cast, 1,448,567 went Democratic and 1,048,068 went Republican.
When did Denver, Colorado last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Denver, Colorado voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Denver, Colorado?
Denver, Colorado has a population of 4,705,362 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Denver, Colorado?
Median household income in Denver, Colorado is $101,183 — above the national median of $80,734. The Colorado state median is $95,470.
What is the political history of Denver, Colorado?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Denver, Colorado from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
