2022 Colorado Senate election

2022 Colorado State Senate election

← 2020 November 8, 2022 2024 →

17 of the 35 seats in the Colorado Senate
18 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Steve Fenberg John Cooke
(term-limited)
Party Democratic Republican
Leader's seat District 18 District 13
Last election 20 15
Seats before 21 14
Seats won 23 12
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 2
Popular vote 587,511 602,095
Percentage 49.05% 50.27%
Swing Decrease 8.76 pp Increase 10.69 pp
Seats up 9 8
Races won 11 6

Results:
     Democratic gain
     Democratic hold      Republican hold
     No election

President of the Senate before election

Steve Fenberg
Democratic

Elected President of the Senate

Steve Fenberg
Democratic

The 2022 Colorado Senate elections took place on November 8, 2022, along with elections in the State House of Representatives, with the primary elections held on June 28, 2022.[1] Voters in 17 out of the 35 districts of the Colorado Senate elected their representative for a four-year term.[2] It coincided with other Colorado elections of the same year and the biennial United States elections.

Democrats gained two seats increasing their majority to 23 out of 35 seats, with one seat shy of an outright supermajority.[3] Despite winning a majority of the votes cast, the Republican Party only won 6 of the 17 seats up for election.

  1. ^ "2022 Election Calendar" (PDF). Colorado Secretary of State.
  2. ^ "Senate Term Limits". Colorado General Assembly.
  3. ^ "Colorado's Democratic supermajority talks spending before session starts". KUSA.com. January 4, 2023. Retrieved April 26, 2023.

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