Colorado · 2016 presidential election
Colorado presidential election results 2016
Hillary Clinton carried Colorado by 4.91 points (136,386 votes), winning 9 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 9
- Votes counted
- 2,780,220
- CO result
- D+4.9
- Compared with the nation
- 2.9 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2012
- 0.5 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 1,338,870 | 48.20% | 9 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 1,202,484 | 43.30% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 144,121 | 5.20% | — | |
| Total votes | 2,780,220 | ||||
Certified state documentCertified
Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).
All 22 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine (DEM) | DEM | 1,338,870 | 48.16% |
| Donald J. Trump / Michael R. Pence (REP) | REP | 1,202,484 | 43.25% |
| Gary Johnson / Bill Weld (LBR) | LBR | 144,121 | 5.18% |
| Jill Stein / Ajamu Baraka (GRN) | GRN | 38,437 | 1.38% |
| Evan McMullin / Nathan Johnson (UAF) | UAF | 28,917 | 1.04% |
| Darrell L. Castle / Scott N. Bradley (ACN) | ACN | 11,699 | 0.42% |
| Chris Keniston / Deacon Taylor (VPA) | VPA | 5,028 | 0.18% |
| Mike Smith / Daniel White (UAF) | UAF | 1,819 | 0.07% |
| "Rocky" Roque De La Fuente / Michael Steinberg | — | 1,255 | 0.05% |
| Kyle Kenley Kopitke / Nathan R. Sorenson (IAP) | IAP | 1,096 | 0.04% |
| Joseph Allen Maldonado / Douglas K. Terranova (IPC) | IPC | 872 | 0.03% |
| Michael A. Maturen / Juan Munoz (ASP) | ASP | 862 | 0.03% |
| Rod Silva / Richard C. Silva (NTR) | NTR | 751 | 0.03% |
| Ryan Alan Scott / Bruce Kendall Barnard (UAF) | UAF | 749 | 0.03% |
| Tom Hoefling / Steve Schulin (AMP) | AMP | 710 | 0.03% |
| Gloria Estela La Riva / Dennis J. Banks (SAL) | SAL | 531 | 0.02% |
| Alyson Kennedy / Osborne Hart (SWP) | SWP | 452 | 0.02% |
| Laurence Kotlikoff / Edward Leamer (KFP) | KFP | 392 | 0.01% |
| Bradford Lyttle / Hannah Walsh (NRP) | NRP | 382 | 0.01% |
| Frank Atwood / Blake Huber (AVP) | AVP | 337 | 0.01% |
| Emidio Soltysik / Angela Nicole Walker (SPU) | SPU | 271 | 0.01% |
| James Hedges / Bill Bayes (PRO) | PRO | 185 | 0.01% |
Notes on how this document was read
- '"Rocky" Roque De La Fuente / Michael Steinberg' is printed over two lines; the party code (ADP) on the second line is not part of the label.
Method: page image read by Apple Vision (lines), Tesseract (words) and RapidOCR (lines); a number is kept when two engines read the same digits in the same place
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Hillary Clinton | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 96,558 | 80,082 | 17,025 | 193,665 | 8.5 |
| Alamosa | 3,189 | 3,046 | 704 | 6,939 | 2.1 |
| Arapahoe | 159,885 | 117,053 | 26,108 | 303,046 | 14.1 |
| Archuleta | 2,500 | 4,264 | 575 | 7,339 | 24.0 |
| Baca | 283 | 1,753 | 117 | 2,153 | 68.3 |
| Bent | 590 | 1,188 | 149 | 1,927 | 31.0 |
| Boulder | 132,334 | 41,396 | 14,412 | 188,142 | 48.3 |
| Broomfield | 19,731 | 14,367 | 3,591 | 37,689 | 14.2 |
| Chaffee | 4,888 | 5,391 | 971 | 11,250 | 4.5 |
| Cheyenne | 132 | 925 | 45 | 1,102 | 72.0 |
| Clear Creek | 2,729 | 2,575 | 562 | 5,866 | 2.6 |
| Conejos | 1,771 | 1,914 | 337 | 4,022 | 3.6 |
| Costilla | 1,125 | 588 | 135 | 1,848 | 29.1 |
| Crowley | 339 | 1,079 | 109 | 1,527 | 48.5 |
| Custer | 797 | 2,061 | 208 | 3,066 | 41.2 |
| Delta | 4,087 | 11,655 | 1,048 | 16,790 | 45.1 |
| Denver | 244,551 | 62,690 | 24,611 | 331,852 | 54.8 |
| Dolores | 242 | 944 | 69 | 1,255 | 55.9 |
| Douglas | 68,657 | 102,573 | 16,269 | 187,499 | 18.1 |
| Eagle | 14,099 | 8,990 | 2,134 | 25,223 | 20.3 |
| El Paso | 108,010 | 179,228 | 31,729 | 318,967 | 22.3 |
| Elbert | 3,134 | 11,705 | 1,139 | 15,978 | 53.6 |
| Fremont | 5,297 | 15,122 | 1,554 | 21,973 | 44.7 |
| Garfield | 11,271 | 13,132 | 2,067 | 26,470 | 7.0 |
| Gilpin | 1,634 | 1,566 | 376 | 3,576 | 1.9 |
| Grand | 3,358 | 4,494 | 736 | 8,588 | 13.2 |
| Gunnison | 5,128 | 3,289 | 995 | 9,412 | 19.5 |
| Hinsdale | 197 | 339 | 53 | 589 | 24.1 |
| Huerfano | 1,633 | 1,883 | 267 | 3,783 | 6.6 |
| Jackson | 171 | 629 | 61 | 861 | 53.2 |
| Jefferson | 160,776 | 138,177 | 29,929 | 328,882 | 6.9 |
| Kiowa | 91 | 728 | 36 | 855 | 74.5 |
| Kit Carson | 536 | 2,967 | 199 | 3,702 | 65.7 |
| La Plata | 15,525 | 12,587 | 3,038 | 31,150 | 9.4 |
| Lake | 1,616 | 1,270 | 313 | 3,199 | 10.8 |
| Larimer | 93,113 | 83,430 | 19,437 | 195,980 | 4.9 |
| Las Animas | 2,650 | 3,710 | 433 | 6,793 | 15.6 |
| Lincoln | 409 | 1,892 | 135 | 2,436 | 60.9 |
| Logan | 1,851 | 7,282 | 589 | 9,722 | 55.9 |
| Mesa | 21,729 | 49,779 | 6,145 | 77,653 | 36.1 |
| Mineral | 237 | 344 | 71 | 652 | 16.4 |
| Moffat | 874 | 5,305 | 346 | 6,525 | 67.9 |
| Montezuma | 3,973 | 7,853 | 1,032 | 12,858 | 30.2 |
| Montrose | 5,466 | 14,382 | 1,338 | 21,186 | 42.1 |
| Morgan | 3,151 | 8,145 | 664 | 11,960 | 41.8 |
| Otero | 2,943 | 4,928 | 581 | 8,452 | 23.5 |
| Ouray | 1,697 | 1,351 | 262 | 3,310 | 10.5 |
| Park | 3,421 | 6,135 | 861 | 10,417 | 26.1 |
| Phillips | 436 | 1,791 | 105 | 2,332 | 58.1 |
| Pitkin | 7,333 | 2,550 | 640 | 10,523 | 45.5 |
| Prowers | 1,186 | 3,531 | 299 | 5,016 | 46.8 |
| Pueblo | 35,875 | 36,265 | 6,506 | 78,646 | 0.5 |
| Rio Blanco | 436 | 2,791 | 223 | 3,450 | 68.3 |
| Rio Grande | 2,001 | 3,085 | 448 | 5,534 | 19.6 |
| Routt | 7,600 | 5,230 | 1,156 | 13,986 | 16.9 |
| Saguache | 1,417 | 1,147 | 271 | 2,835 | 9.5 |
| San Juan | 265 | 215 | 26 | 506 | 9.9 |
| San Miguel | 2,975 | 1,033 | 321 | 4,329 | 44.9 |
| Sedgwick | 267 | 1,015 | 82 | 1,364 | 54.8 |
| Summit | 9,557 | 5,100 | 1,517 | 16,174 | 27.6 |
| Teller | 3,603 | 9,745 | 1,096 | 14,444 | 42.5 |
| Washington | 296 | 2,299 | 138 | 2,733 | 73.3 |
| Weld | 46,519 | 76,651 | 12,258 | 135,428 | 22.2 |
| Yuma | 726 | 3,850 | 215 | 4,791 | 65.2 |
Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.
Notes on how this document was read
- Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).
Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).
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Questions and answers
Who won Colorado in 2016?
Hillary Clinton won Colorado by 4.91 percentage points (136,386 votes).
How many electoral votes did Colorado have in 2016?
Colorado cast 9 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in Colorado in 2016?
2,780,220 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Colorado in 2016?
Donald J. Trump 42, Hillary Clinton 22 (out of 64 counties with results).
How did Colorado change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 0.5 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 5.4 points to Democratic by 4.9 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data