United States presidential election in Colorado, 2016
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The 2016 United States presidential election in Colorado will take place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participate. Colorado voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.
On March 1, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Colorado voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Libertarian parties' respective nominees for President. The Republican Party did not hold a preference poll because the party decided to cancel it in August 2015.[1] Registered members of each party only voted in their party's caucus, while unaffiliated voters were unable to participate.
Contents
Primary elections
Democratic caucuses
Opinion polling
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| Poll source | Date | 1st | 2nd | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caucus results | March 1, 2016 | Bernie Sanders 59.44% |
Hillary Clinton 39.85% |
Other 0.71% |
| Washington Free Beacon/TPC Research[2]
Margin of error: ± 3% |
February 16–17, 2016 | Bernie Sanders 49% |
Hillary Clinton 43% |
Undecided 9% |
| Quinnipiac University[3]
Margin of error: ± 4.9% |
November 11–15, 2015 | Hillary Clinton 55% |
Bernie Sanders 27% |
Martin O'Malley 2% Undecided 15% |
| Suffolk University[4]
Margin of error: ± ? |
September 13–16, 2014 | Hillary Clinton 59% |
Elizabeth Warren 21% |
Joe Biden 8% Andrew Cuomo 4% Martin O’Malley 0% Undecided 6% Other 2% Refused 1% |
Results
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- Caucus date
- March 1, 2016
| Candidate | Popular vote | Estimated delegates | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
| Bernie Sanders | 73,416 | 59.44% | 39 | 39 | |
| Hillary Clinton | 49,219 | 39.85% | 27 | 9 | 36 |
| Uncommitted | 822 | 0.67% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Others | 51 | 0.04% | |||
| Total | 123,508 | 100% | 66 | 12 | 78 |
| Sources: The Green Papers and Colorado Democrats 2016 Caucus results | |||||
- Detailed estimates per congressional district
| District | Total estimate | Bernie Sanders | Hillary Clinton | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Estimated delegates | Votes | Estimated delegates | Votes | Estimated delegates | |
| 1st district | 29,474 | 8 | 16,232 | 4 | 13,242 | 4 |
| 2nd district | 30,624 | 7 | 19,376 | 4 | 11,248 | 3 |
| 3rd district | 14,671 | 6 | 8,956 | 4 | 5,715 | 2 |
| 4th district | 10,060 | 5 | 6,115 | 3 | 3,945 | 2 |
| 5th district | 10,315 | 5 | 6,338 | 3 | 3,977 | 2 |
| 6th district | 12,836 | 6 | 6,675 | 3 | 6,161 | 3 |
| 7th district | 14,655 | 6 | 9,154 | 4 | 5,501 | 4 |
| At-large delegates | 122,635 | 14 | 72,846 | 8 | 49,789 | 6 |
| Pledged PLEOs | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Total | 66 | 38 | 28 | |||
Results of the county assemblies Timeframe for the county assemblies: March 2 – March 26, 2016
| Candidate | State + District delegates[6] | Estimated delegates | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
| Bernie Sanders | 372 | 61.39% | |||
| Hillary Clinton | 234 | 38.61% | |||
| Uncommitted | |||||
| Total | 606 | 100% | |||
- Results of the congressional district conventions
| District | Delegates available |
Delegates won | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanders | Clinton | ||
| 1st district | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 2nd district | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 3rd district | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 4th district | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 5th district | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 6th district | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 7th district | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| Total | 43 | 26 | 17 |
- Results of the state convention
State convention date: April 16, 2016
| Candidate | State convention delegates | National delegates won | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | At-large | PLEO | Total | |
| Bernie Sanders | 1,900 | 62.3% | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| Hillary Clinton | 1,150 | 37.7% | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| Total | 3,050 | 100.0% | 14 | 9 | 23 |
Republican conventions
From April 2-8, 2016, conventions were held in each of Colorado's seven congressional districts. Cruz swept all seven, winning 21 delegates total.[9][10][11][12] On April 9, 2016, the state convention was held to elect the 13 statewide delegates and the 3 RNC delegates.[13] Again, Cruz won all 13 statewide at-large delegates.[14] Cruz was also the only candidate to address the state convention.
A proposal to forbid Colorado Republican delegates from voting for Donald Trump was written in March 2016 by Robert Zubrin.[15] The group "Colorado Republicans for Liberty" handed out fliers of Zubrin's resolution at the state's convention. Irregularities on the ballot were discovered at the state's convention. Delegate #379 (Jerome Parks, a Trump delegate) was replaced on the ballot with a duplicate of delegate #378 (a Ted Cruz delegate).[16][17] Larry Wayne Lindsey, a state delegate, claims he was removed from the ballot without knowing until shortly before the beginning of the convention because he is a Trump supporter.[16] The Colorado Republican Party's Twitter account posted a the message "We did it #NeverTrump" after Cruz received all the bound delegates at the April convention. The party claims somebody hacked its Twitter account, and the party claims to be investigating how the message was posted.[18][19] In May 2015, the Colorado Senate defeated a bill to hold a 2016 presidential primary. State senators Kevin Grantham, Kent Lambert, Laura J. Woods, and Jerry Sonnenberg voted to stop the bill.[20] Sonnenberg, Woods, Grantham, and Lambert are members of the Ted Cruz "Colorado Leadership Team" for Ted Cruz.[21] Congressman Ken Buck and Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams are also members of the Ted Cruz "Colorado Leadership Team".[21]
The conventions were selected through statewide caucuses, which were conducted at the precinct level on March 1.[13] No voter preference poll was held due to a decision in August by the state party to cancel it.[1]
Three candidates contested the Republican presidential conventions:
Marco Rubio and Ben Carson had dropped out of the race by the time the conventions were held, though they were still running during the March 1 caucuses.
| Colorado Republican district conventions, April 2, 2016, April 7-8, 2016 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
| Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
 Ted Cruz |
0 | 0.0% | 17 | 4 | 21 |
| Donald Trump | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| John Kasich | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marco Rubio (withdrawn) | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ben Carson (withdrawn) | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Uncommitted | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total: | 0 | 100.00% | 17 | 4 | 21 |
| Source: The Green Papers | |||||
| Colorado Republican state convention, April 9, 2016 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
| Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
| Ted Cruz |
0 | 0.0% | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| Donald Trump | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| John Kasich | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marco Rubio (withdrawn) | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ben Carson (withdrawn) | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Uncommitted | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Total: | 0 | 100.00% | 13 | 3 | 16 |
| Source: The Green Papers | |||||
Green Party Convention
On April 3, the Green Party of Colorado held a presidential nominating convention in Centennial, Colorado for registered Green voters.[22]
On April 4, the Green Party of Colorado announced that Jill Stein had won the convention and received all 5 delegates.[23]
| Colorado Green Party Convention, April 3 2016. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | National delegates |
| Jill Stein |
- | - | 5 |
| William Kreml | - | - | - |
| Kent Mesplay | - | - | - |
| Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry | - | - | - |
| Darryl Cherney | - | - | - |
| Uncommitted | - | - | - |
| Total | - | - | 5 |
See also
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- Democratic Party presidential debates, 2016
- Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016
- Republican Party presidential debates, 2016
- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016
References
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- ↑ The Green Papers
- ↑ Colorado Democrats 2016 Delegates
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