2024 Colorado Senate election

The 2024 Colorado Senate elections took place on November 5, 2024, with the primary elections being held on June 25, 2024. Voters in 18 out of the 35 districts of the state Senate elected their representative for a four-year term. This election coincided with other Colorado elections of the same year and the biennial United States elections.

Background

In the 2020 US Presidential Election, Joe Biden won 25 districts, while Donald Trump won 10. Republicans represented three districts where Biden had won in 2020: District 6 (Biden +2.18%), represented by Cleave Simpson; District 12 (Biden +3.61%), represented by Bob Gardner; and District 30 (Biden +1.47%), represented by Kevin Van Winkle. Additionally, one Democrat, Kevin Priola, represented District 13, which Trump won by 3.78%.

Retirements

Democrats

1. District 13: Kevin Priola is term-limited.
2. District 14: Joann Ginal is term-limited.
3. District 18: Steve Fenberg is term-limited.
4. District 19: Rachel Zenzinger is term-limited (ran for Jefferson County Commission).
5. District 28: Rhonda Fields is term-limited (ran for Arapahoe County Commission).

Republicans

1. District 2: Jim Smallwood is term-limited.
2. District 5: Perry Will retired to run for Garfield County Commission.
3. District 12: Bob Gardner is term-limited.

Predictions

Statewide

Competitive districts

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:

1. (flip)

Results by district

District 2

District 5

District 6

Incumbent Republican Cleave Simpson was re-elected with an 11.8% margin and carried Saguache County by 6.4%.

District 10

District 12

District 13

District 14

District 16

District 17

District 18

District 19

District 21

District 23

District 26

District 28

District 29

District 31

District 33

Footnotes

References