| Election Name: | 2016 Colorado Democratic presidential caucuses |
| Country: | Colorado |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2008 Colorado Democratic caucuses |
| Previous Year: | 2008 |
| Next Election: | 2020 Colorado Democratic primary |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
| Candidate1: | Bernie Sanders |
| Home State1: | Vermont |
| Delegate Count1: | 41 |
| Popular Vote1: | 72,846 |
| Percentage1: | 58.98% |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| Candidate2: | Hillary Clinton |
| Home State2: | New York |
| Delegate Count2: | 25 |
| Popular Vote2: | 49,789 |
| Percentage2: | 40.31% |
| Color1: | 228B22 |
| Color2: | d4aa00 |
The 2016 Colorado Democratic presidential caucuses took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Colorado as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
On the same day, dubbed "Super Tuesday," Democratic primaries were held in ten other states plus American Samoa, while the Republican Party held primaries in eleven states including their own Colorado caucuses.
Youth[1] [2] and Latino[3] caucus-goers delivered a win for Bernie Sanders.
See also: Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
See also: Results of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
| + Detailed results for the Colorado Democratic caucuses, March 1, 2016[4] | |||||||
| District | Total estimate | Bernie Sanders | Hillary Clinton | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Estimated delegates | Votes | Estimated delegates | Votes | Estimated delegates | ||
| 1st district | 29,474 | 8 | 16,232 | 4 | 13,242 | 4 | |
| 2nd district | 30,624 | 7 | 19,376 | 4 | 11,248 | 3 | |
| 3rd district | 14,671 | 6 | 8,956 | 4 | 5,715 | 2 | |
| 4th district | 10,060 | 5 | 6,115 | 3 | 3,945 | 2 | |
| 5th district | 10,315 | 5 | 6,338 | 3 | 3,977 | 2 | |
| 6th district | 12,836 | 6 | 6,675 | 3 | 6,161 | 3 | |
| 7th district | 14,655 | 6 | 9,154 | 4 | 5,501 | 4 | |
| At-large delegates | 122,635 | 14 | 72,846 | 8 | 49,789 | 6 | |
| Pledged PLEOs | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Total | 66 | 38 | 28 |
|-! rowspan="2" | Candidate! colspan="2" | State + District delegates[5] ! colspan="3" | Estimated delegates|-! style="width:70px;" | Count! style="width:80px;" | Percentage! style="width:45px;" | Pledged! style="width:45px;" | Unpledged! style="width:45px;" | Total|- | style="text-align:left;" | Bernie Sanders| 372 || 61.39%| || || |-| style="text-align:left;"| Hillary Clinton| 234 || 38.61%| || || |-| style="text-align:left;"| Uncommitted| || | || || |-! Total! 606 !! 100%! !! !! |}
Detailed results for the congressional district conventions, [6] |-! rowspan=2 | District! rowspan=2 style="width:60px;" | Delegates
available! colspan=2 | Delegates won|-! style="width:60px;" | Sanders! style="width:60px;" | Clinton|-| style="text-align:left" | 1st district| 8| 5| 3|-| style="text-align:left" | 2nd district| 7| 4| 3|-| style="text-align:left" | 3rd district| 6| 4| 2|-| style="text-align:left" | 4th district| 5| 3| 2|-| style="text-align:left" | 5th district| 5| 3| 2|-| style="text-align:left" | 6th district| 6| 3| 3|-| style="text-align:left" | 7th district| 6| 4| 2|-! Total! style="text-align:right" | 43! style="text-align:right" | 26! style="text-align:right" | 17|}
| Candidate | State convention delegates | National delegates won | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | At-large | PLEO | Total | ||
| Bernie Sanders | 1,900 | 62.3% | 9 | 6 | 15 | |
| Hillary Clinton | 1,150 | 37.7% | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Total | 3,050 | 100.0% | 14 | 9 | 23 | |
As Barack Obama had similarly done eight years earlier in the state, Bernie Sanders won a convincing 19-point victory in the Colorado caucus, relying on turnout from young adult voters in a majority white electorate.[8] [9] He ran up big margins in the capital city of Denver and in Denver County at large, as well as in Colorado Springs in El Paso County and Fort Collins in Larimer County. Sanders also performed very strongly in the western parts of the state along the Rocky Mountains, in regions such as the Colorado Mineral belt and Northwestern Colorado which are rural and sparsely populated. Clinton won in the city of Pueblo in Pueblo County.
Sanders gained more delegates over Clinton with a large turnout from supporters at the conventions in April.[10]