Minutes before their self-imposed deadline to agree on a new congressional redistricting map, Colorado’s independent redistricting commission voted to approve a new map in the state’s first effort at having a panel of citizens draw the districts.
Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission released a third staff map Thursday that makes slight changes to the second map as it nears next Tuesday’s deadline to have the map finalized.
Colorado to get 8th congressional district after population growth, but location remains unknown
Colorado saw population grow by more than 14.5% from 2010 to 2020
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Posted at 3:11 PM, Apr 26, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-26 21:11:20-04
DENVER â Colorado will, as expected, get an eighth congressional seat that will be up for election in 2022 after population increases over the last decade, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday.
Coloradoâs resident population for 2020 was 5,773,714 â 744,518 people more than the resident population that was counted in 2010 and a growth rate of 14.8%.
The apportionment population, which also includes federal employees and their dependents living overseas who list Colorado as their home state, was 5,782,171 â up from 5,044,930 in 2010 â for an apportionment population growth of 14.6%.
Organizations representing Colorado’s mostly-rural counties are working on a congressional districting proposal they hope will be considered by the Colorado Congressional Redistricting Commission.
Action 22, representing roughly the southeastern fourth of Colorado, along with Pro 15, representing the northeast fourth, and Club 20, representing the Western Slope, will be urging the CCRC to create two congressional districts for rural Colorado.
According to Census projections, the counties outside the Larimer to El Paso urban corridor amount to one-quarter of the state’s population, sufficient for two of the state’s projected eight congressional districts.
The three groups’ boards of directors are working on a plan to send to the commission, based roughly on grouping the Pro 14 and the Action 22 counties together for one district and the Club 20 counties as one district. That would leave the urban corridor from Larimer to El Paso counties to be divided among the remaining si