news release
Secretary of State Jena Griswold
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Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold announced the certification of the 2024 presidential primary, making the election results official and final. The certification was made after each county's bipartisan canvassing committee submitted formal voting summaries to the Secretary of State's Office.
“The 2024 presidential primary was one of the most accessible elections in Colorado's history. I am proud of our state's elections and the voting rights we have added over the past five years.” said Secretary Griswold. “I commend the hard work and dedication of county election administrators, election workers, and Department of State employees in delivering great elections for Colorado voters.”
After the election, the Secretary of State's Office worked with Colorado's county clerks to complete a bipartisan risk-limiting audit verifying the election results. After the audit, each county's bipartisan canvassing committee certified the election results. The canvassing committee then submitted the final results to the Secretary of State's Office.
Returning mail-in ballots is the preferred method for voters, with 98.59 percent of voters choosing to vote by mail and only 1.41 percent choosing to vote in-person in the 2023 unified election. 99.02 percent of Democratic ballots were cast by mail, and 98.31 percent of Republican ballots were cast by mail.
2024 Presidential Primaries:
- Number of votes: 1,464,836
- Total number of valid voters: 3,788,458
- Active voter turnout: 38.67%
- Votes cast by independent voters: 562,699 (38.41% of total votes)
- Number of votes for the Democratic Party: 177,117 (31.48% of votes cast by independent voters)
- 385,582 Republican votes (68.52% of votes cast by independent voters)
- Number of votes cast by Democratic voters: 403,471 (27.54% of total votes)
- Number of votes cast by Republican voters: 498,666 (34.04% of total votes)
- In the 2024 presidential primary, 3,117 voters used TXT2Cure to correct signature or ID mismatches with their ballots.
Click here for a statewide summary of votes cast in the March 5, 2024 presidential primary election.
Click here (XLSX) for the final vote return report.
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