Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...

's 3rd Senate district is one of 35 districts in the

Colorado Senate The Colorado State Senate is the upper house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Colorado. It is composed of 35 members elected from single-member districts, with each district having a population of abou ...

. It has been represented by

Democrat Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY) **Democratic Part ...

Nick Hinrichsen since 2022, following the resignation of Leroy Garcia.

Geography

District 3 is based in the city of

Pueblo Pueblo refers to the settlements of the Pueblo peoples, Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, currently in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. The permanent communities, including some of the oldest continually occupied settlement ...

Pueblo County Pueblo County ( or ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 168,162. The county seat is Pueblo. The county was named for the historic city of Pueblo which took its name from the Spanish la ...

, also covering the nearby community of

Pueblo West Pueblo West is a census-designated place (CDP) in and governed by Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is part of the Pueblo, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Pueblo West CDP was 33,086 according to the Unite ...

. The district is located entirely within

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 ...

, and overlaps with the 46th, 47th, and 62nd districts of the

Colorado House of Representatives The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado. The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each distri ...

Recent election results

2022

Colorado state senators are elected to staggered four-year terms; under normal circumstances, the 3rd district holds elections in midterm years. The 2022 election will be the first one held under the state's new district lines.

Historical election results

2018

2014

2013 recall

In 2013, an attempt to recall incumbent Democrat

Angela Giron Angela Giron (born May 12, 1960) is an American politician who was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Colorado Senate representing Colorado's 3rd Senate district, District 3 from 2011 until she was recalled on September 1 ...

over her support for gun control legislation was successful, resulting in the election of Republican

George Rivera George Rivera is a former member of the Colorado Senate elected in a September 10, 2013 Colorado recall election of 2013, recall election to replace Angela Giron. Rivera was elected from Colorado's Colorado's 3rd Senate district, State Senate Dist ...

Federal and statewide results

References

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