It finally happened: Colorado voters unaffiliated with any party now make up a majority of the electorate, after years of flirting with the mark.

The latest round of voter registration statistics, published by the Colorado Secretary of State’s office earlier this month, shows 51% of all voters — active, inactive, and pre-registered — opted against affiliating with any political party. That is up from 49.5% of the total in November 2024 and from 42% in November 2020.

Unaffiliated voters have long been the largest single bloc in Colorado. A series of reforms in recent years, including automatic voter registration and opening partisan primary elections to unaffiliated voters, helped fuel the growth.

“There is no incentive anymore for a voter to register with a party,” aside from personal

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