| Amendment 36 | |
| Selection of Presidential Electors | |
| Yes: | 696,770 |
| No: | 1,306,834 |
| Total: | 2,145,555 |
| Electorate: | 2,421,970 |
Colorado Amendment 36 was an initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot on November 2, 2004. It would have changed the way in which the state apportioned its electoral votes. Rather than assigning all of the state's electors to the candidate with a plurality of popular votes, under the amendment, Colorado would have assigned presidential electors proportionally to the statewide vote count, which would be a unique system (Nebraska and Maine assign electoral votes based on vote totals within each congressional district). The amendment did not pass.
The amendment appeared on the ballot as follows:[1]
The amendment ultimately failed, garnering only 34.78% of the vote: