1988 general · November 8, 1988

1988 Colorado election results

Every race on Colorado's ballot in the 1988 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races91
Changed party8
Unopposed26%24 races
Incumbents defeated2

President

R 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
ColoradoGeorge H.w. Bush (R)7.8

U.S. House

D 3 · R 3

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
CO-1Patricia Schroeder (D)39.9
CO-2David Skaggs (D)25.5
CO-3Ben Campbell (D)56.1
CO-4Hank Brown (R)46.2
CO-5Joel Hefley (R)50.3
CO-6Daniel Schaefer (R)27.4

Colorado State Senate

D 5 · R 14 · 1 changed party

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-4Harold L. McCormick (R)32.3
SD-8David E. Wattenberg (R)25.4
SD-10Ray Powers (R)Unopposed
SD-12Mary Ann Tebedo (R)31.1
SD-14Bob Schaffer (R)8.8
SD-16Tom Norton (R)Unopposed
SD-17Sandy Hume (R)16.7
SD-18Jana Mendez (D)23.1
SD-19Al Meiklejohn (R)Unopposed
SD-21Bonnie J. Allison (R)Unopposed
SD-23Ted Strickland (R)4.3
SD-25Bob Martinez (D)6.0
SD-26Terry Considine (R)Unopposed
SD-27Bill Owens (R)40.9
SD-28Jack Fenlon (R)54.5
SD-31Donald Sandoval (D)50.2
SD-33Regis Groff (D)Unopposed
SD-34Pat Pascoe (D)9.5Flipped
SD-35Dottie Wham (R)25.8

Colorado House of Representatives

D 26 · R 39 · 7 changed party

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Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab