Data Usage

All data on this site has been collected from various different locations. I have only assembled it into easier to access format. Therefore, I claim no right to withhold any of it. If you are a political site and wish to use them, all I request is an acknowledgment that you received the map from this site. There is a difference between data and presentation however - do not hotlink to my webpage or images by embedding within frames or copy the entire data tables and represent it as your own presentation. The amount of data here exceeds the collected data by the Secretary of State website, and it wasn't easy to get it, clean it up, and present it to the world.

In the case of any of the election data, all statewide election data is from the Secretary of State website: elections.colorado.gov. County elections for 2006 were made available through a painful collection throughout the entire influence of the Internet and various other sources. Some of the pre-2000 election data was compiled from the published "abstracts of votes cast" which are still printed for every two year span. There are copies at most state universities, or they can be acquired through the Prospector Library Alliance. The call number for the Colorado State Publications Library is S1.11

If you want older data than provided here, that is the best source available. Be persistent about this; the online version is inadequate in comparison to the abstract of vote cast publication. Some of the data on this site was run through OCR to get the data presented, then cleaned up by hand wherever necessary. I apologize if any error still made it through, but I believe the current data set is accurate.

I have no problem with people adapting the data or generating even more complicated analysis from what is assembled here. If you want my entire election results database (CSV or SQL export), you can contact me through the information below.

Find Your District Search Processes

Please note that people living on the boundary can possibly get inaccurate district information. This is a fault of slight inaccuracies between the original district data and Google Maps. The measures I took to try and rectify this all ended with horrible failures. If you live on the top of a mountain range, the boundaries for certain counties and political boundaries were reduced in resolution to ease data usage and speed up the overall process. The most populous counties to have this problem are Jefferson and Boulder County. In the case of Jefferson County, people may live near the boundary that follows the Platte River, so please be aware of this potential problem.

Contact the webmaster

You can contact me through webmaster@comaps.org. I will generally respond within a week or so at a maximum. If not, bother me some more since there are periods when I leave the site to its own devices.