The 2022 Colorado Senate elections took place on November 8, 2022, along with

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in the State House of Representatives, with the primary elections held on June 28, 2022. Voters in 17 out of the 35 districts of the

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elected their representative for a four-year term. 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. Despite winning a majority of the votes cast, the Republican Party only won 6 of the 17 seats up for election.

Background

In the previous state Senate election (2020), the Democrats increased their majority to five seats. In August 2022, Republican Sen. Kevin Priola announced he was changing his party affiliation to Democratic. Therefore, for Democrats to lose their absolute majority in the Senate in this election, Republicans and other parties needed to gain at least four more seats. This was the first election with the districts drawn based on the 2020 census. Due to this, some districts did not have incumbents, as they chose to run in other districts that were not up for election in 2022.

Incumbents not seeking re-election

One Democratic and four Republican incumbents were term-limited and prohibited from seeking a consecutive third term. Under the laws for the state Senate, for terms to be considered non-consecutive, there needs to be a gap of at least four years between them.

Democrats

* District 5: Kerry Donovan was term-limited. * District 11:

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retired. * District 16:

Tammy Story Tamara Lee Story (born February 24, 1959) is an American politician. She serves as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives, representing District 25. Previously, she served as a member of the Colorado Senate, representing the 16th dist ...

retired to run for

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from District 25. * District 22:

Brittany Pettersen Brittany Louise Pettersen (born December 6, 1981) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Colorado's 7th congressional district since 2023. She previously served as a member of the Colorado Senate from the 22nd distric ...

retired to run for

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from

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Republicans

* District 1: Jerry Sonnenberg was term-limited. * District 6: Don Coram retired to run for

from

Colorado's 3rd congressional district Colorado's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Colorado. It takes in most of the rural Western Slope in the state's western third portion, with a wing in the south taking in some of the southern portions ...

. * District 7: Ray Scott was term-limited. * District 13: John Cooke was term-limited. * District 30: Chris Holbert was term-limited, then resigned on May 31, 2022.

Predictions

Results

† - Incumbent not seeking re-election ''Italics'' - Incumbent redistricted to different district Bold - gain

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%: # gain # # gain # #

Detailed results

District 1

District 3

District 4

District 7

District 8

District 9

District 11

District 15

District 20

District 22

District 24

District 25

District 27

District 30

District 32

District 34

District 35

Footnotes

References

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