| Election Name: | 2022 Colorado State Senate election |
| Country: | Colorado |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2020 Colorado Senate election |
| Previous Year: | 2020 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Colorado Senate election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Seats For Election: | 17 of the 35 seats in the Colorado Senate |
| Majority Seats: | 18 |
| Election Date: | November 8, 2022 |
| 1Blank: | Seats up |
| 2Blank: | Races won |
| Image1: | Senate President Fenberg (cropped).jpg |
| Leader1: | Steve Fenberg |
| Party1: | Colorado Democratic Party |
| Seats Before1: | 21 |
| Seats1: | 23 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Popular Vote1: | 587,511 |
| Percentage1: | 49.05% |
| Swing1: | 8.76 pp |
| 1Data1: | 9 |
| 2Data1: | 11 |
| Leader2: | John Cooke (term-limited) |
| Party2: | Colorado Republican Party |
| Seats Before2: | 14 |
| Seats2: | 12 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 602,095 |
| Percentage2: | 50.27% |
| Swing2: | 10.69 pp |
| 1Data2: | 8 |
| 2Data2: | 6 |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| President of the Senate | |
| Before Election: | Steve Fenberg |
| Before Party: | Democratic |
| After Election: | Steve Fenberg |
| After Party: | Democratic |
| Last Election1: | 20 seats, 57.81% |
| Last Election2: | 15 seats, 39.58% |
The 2022 Colorado Senate elections took place on November 8, 2022, along with elections in the State House of Representatives, with the primary elections held on June 28, 2022.[1] Voters in 17 out of the 35 districts of the Colorado Senate elected their representative for a four-year term.[2] It coincided with other Colorado elections of the same year and the biennial United States elections.
Democrats gained two seats increasing their majority to 23 out of 35 seats, with one seat shy of an outright supermajority.[3] Despite winning a majority of the votes cast, the Republican Party only won 6 of the 17 seats up for election.
In the previous state Senate election (2020), the Democrats increased their majority to five seats. In August 2022, Republican Sen. Kevin Priola announced he was changing his party affiliation to Democratic.[4] Therefore, for Democrats to lose their absolute majority in the Senate in this election, Republicans and other parties needed to gain at least four more seats.
This was the first election with the districts drawn based on the 2020 census.[5] Due to this, some districts did not have incumbents, as they chose to run in other districts that were not up for election in 2022.
One Democratic and four Republican incumbents were 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 four years between them.[2]
| District | Incumbent | Party | Elected | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jerry Sonnenberg† | Rep | Byron Pelton | Rep | |||
| 3 | Nick Hinrichsen | Dem | Nick Hinrichsen | Dem | |||
| 4 | Jim Smallwood | Rep | Mark Baisley | Rep | |||
| 7 | Ray Scott† | Rep | Janice Rich | Rep | |||
| 8 | Bob Rankin | Rep | Dylan Roberts | Dem | |||
| 9 | Paul Lundeen | Rep | Paul Lundeen | Rep | |||
| 11 | Pete Lee† | Dem | Tony Exum | Dem | |||
| Dennis Hisey | Rep | ||||||
| 15 | Rob Woodward | Rep | Janice Marchman | Dem | |||
| 20 | Rachael Zenzinger | Dem | Lisa A. Cutter | Dem | |||
| 22 | Jessie Danielson | Dem | Jessie Danielson | Dem | |||
| Brittany Pettersen† | |||||||
| 24 | No incumbent | Kyle Mullica | Dem | ||||
| 25 | Faith Winter | Dem | Faith Winter | Dem | |||
| 27 | Chris Kolker | Dem | Tom Sullivan | Dem | |||
| 30 | Kevin Van Winkle | Rep | Kevin Van Winkle | Rep | |||
| 32 | Robert Rodriguez | Dem | Robert Rodriguez | Dem | |||
| 34 | Julie Gonzales | Dem | Julie Gonzales | Dem | |||
| 35 | Cleave Simpson | Rep | Rod Pelton | Rep | |||
Italics - Incumbent redistricted to different district
Bold - gain
Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:
| align=center | District 1 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 7 • District 9 • District 11 • District 13 • District 15 • District 16 • District 20 • District 22 • District 24 • District 30 • District 32 • District 34 |