2022 Colorado House of Representatives election
The 2022 Colorado House of Representatives elections took place on November 8, 2022, along with the elections in the State Senate. The primary elections were held on June 28, 2022. Voters in all [|65] districts of the state House elected their representative for a two-year term. These coincided with other Colorado elections of the same year and the biennial United States elections.
Democrats gained five seats, increasing their majority to [|46] out of 65 seats and giving them a supermajority in the State House for the first time in over [|50] years.
Background
In the [2020 Colorado House of Representatives election|previous state Colorado House of Representatives|House election (2020)], the Democrats held on to their majority of [|17] seats, with no net seat change. Therefore, for Democrats to lose their absolute majority in the House in this election, Republicans and other parties needed to gain at least [|9] more seats.This was the first election with the districts drawn based on the 2020 census.
Incumbents not seeking re-election
Representatives who have served four consecutive terms are not eligible for re-election. For terms to be considered non-consecutive, there needs to be a gap of at least four years between them.Democrats
- District 1: Susan Lontine retired due to term limits.
- District 2: Alec Garnett retired due to term limits.
- District 17: Tony Exum retired to run for state senator from District 11, and was term-limited.
- District 25: Lisa Cutter retired to run for state senator from District [|20].
- District 26: Dylan Roberts retired to run for state senator from District 8.
- District 28: Kerry Tipper retired.
- District 31: Yadira Caraveo retired to run for U. S. representative from Colorado's 8th congressional district.
- District 33: Matt Gray retired.
- District 34: Kyle Mullica retired to run for state senator from District [|24].
- District 37: Tom Sullivan retired to run for state senator from District [|27].
- District 46: Daneya Esgar retired due to term limits.
- District 62: Donald Valdez retired to run for U. S. representative from Colorado's 3rd congressional district.
Republicans
- District 14: Shane Sandridge retired.
- District 15: Dave Williams retired to run for U. S. representative from Colorado's 5th congressional district.
- District 16: Andres G. Pico retired.
- District 19: Tim Geitner retired.
- District 20: Terri Carver retired due to term limits.
- District 39: Mark Baisley retired to run for state senator from District 4.
- District 44: Kim Ransom retired due to term limits.
- District 45: Patrick Neville retired due to term limits.
- District 48: Tonya Van Beber retired to run for state senator from District 1.
- District 55: Janice Rich retired to run for state senator from District 7.
- District 60: Ron Hanks retired to run for U. S. senator.
- District 65: Rod Pelton retired to run for state senator from District [|35].
Results
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Detailed results
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