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Colorado's 1st district

Colorado's 1st district has 723,424 residents on 154 mi² of land. It is represented by Diana DeGette (D-CO-1). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $2.4B in FY2026.

Residents
723,424
Land area
154 mi²
Counties
3
Representative
Diana DeGette
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Map of Colorado's 1st district within Colorado

Members for this district

Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.

Senators

The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.

Counties

Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).

  1. Denver County99% of the district · 99.6% of the county
  2. Arapahoe County1.0% of the district · 1.1% of the county
  3. Jefferson County<0.1% of the district · <0.1% of the county

Federal contracts

Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.

Obligations · FY2026
$2.4B
Per resident
$3,260
Rank in Colorado
3 of 8
Contract actions
3,051
New awards: 1,074

By fiscal year

  1. 757.7MFY2017
  2. 908.3MFY2018
  3. 426.7MFY2019
  4. 323.8MFY2020
  5. 747.6MFY2021
  6. 1.1BFY2022
  7. 1.4BFY2023
  8. 1.9BFY2024
  9. 2.8BFY2025
  10. 2.4BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Air Force$1.6B70%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$207.6M8.8%
  3. Office of the Chief Financial Officer$122.9M5.2%
    Department of Agriculture
  4. Defense Logistics Agency$75.2M3.2%
    Department of Defense
  5. U.S. Coast Guard$45.7M1.9%
    Department of Homeland Security
  6. Internal Revenue Service$42.1M1.8%
    Department of the Treasury
  7. Environmental Protection Agency$29.5M1.2%
  8. Department of the Army$24.9M1.1%
    Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC$1.6B70%
    31 awards
  2. DAVITA INC.$179.7M7.6%
    8 awards
  3. PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.$173.3M7.3%
    16 awards
  4. TRANSMONTAIGNE PARTNERS LLC$72.2M3.1%
    1 award
  5. BIRDON AMERICA INC$46M1.9%
    116 awards
  6. IRON MIKE CONSTRUCTION LLC$19.7M0.8%
    1 award
  7. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$15.9M0.7%
    3 awards
  8. ALLIUM US HOLDING LLC$11.6M0.5%
    18 awards
  9. LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.$10.7M0.5%
    4 awards
  10. NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$10.2M0.4%
    4 awards

Other boundaries

District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.