The 2022 Colorado Senate elections will take place on November 8, 2022, with the primary elections being held on June 28, 2022. Voters in 17 out of the 35 districts of the

Colorado Senate The Colorado 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 about 123, ...

will elect their representative for a four-year term. It will coincide with other Colorado elections of the same year and the biennial United States elections.

Background

In the previous state Senate election (2020), the Democrats increased their majority to 5 seats. In August 2022,

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Sen.

Kevin Priola Kevin Priola is an American politician who serves in the Colorado Senate from the 13th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to decennial redistricting he also represented the 25th district. Prior to his tenure in the state sen ...

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 would need to gain at least 4 more seats. This will be the first election with the districts drawn based on the 2020 census. Due to this, some districts do not have incumbents, as they chose to run in other districts that are not up for election in 2022.

Incumbents not seeking re-election

One Democratic and four Republican incumbents are 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 4 years between them.

Democrats

Retirements #District 11:

Pete Lee Sanford Edmund Lee (born October 11, 1947) is an American politician. He served in the Colorado Senate from the 11th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his tenure in the state senate he served in the Colorado House of Repr ...

retired. #District 16: Tammy Story 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 U. S. representative from

Colorado's 7th congressional district Colorado's 7th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Colorado. Formerly located only in the northeast part of the state, the district now encompasses the western parts of the Denver metropolitan area, includin ...

. Term Limits #District 5:

Kerry Donovan Kerry Elizabeth Donovan (born 1978/1979) is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Colorado Senate from the 5th district. She also served as president pro tempore of the Colorado Senate from 2021-2023. Prior to entering ...

retired due to term limits.

Republicans

Retirements #District 6:

Don Coram Don Coram (born 1948) is an American politician who served as a member of the Colorado Senate and the Colorado House of Representatives. In the state senate, he represented District 6, comprising the counties of: Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, ...

retired to run for U. S. representative 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 tendril in the south taking in some of the southern porti ...

. Term Limits #District 1: Jerry Sonnenberg retired due to term limits. #District 7: Ray Scott retired due to term limits. #District 13: John Cooke retired due to term limits. #District 30: Chris Holbert retired due to term limits, 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

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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

References

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