2064 United States presidential election in New Columbia



The 2064 United States presidential election in New Columbia was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2064, as part of the 2064 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of Marissa Lindroth and Rafael Stewart won the state with 61% of the vote and a 29% margin of victory, their worst performance ever in the state or its predecessor, the District of Columbia, up to that point. This was the final election in which a Democrat won the state of New Columbia; they would narrowly lose the state four years later in the final round of ranked choice voting, and from 2072 onward the state consistently voted for the Green Party.

Background
New Columbia voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election between 1964, when the state's predecessor, the District of Columbia, first voted in a presidential election, to 2064, a streak of 100 years and 25 elections; this was the second-longest streak of voting for one political party in any U.S. state, which was only surpassed by Vermont's record of voting for every Republican presidential candidate between 1856 and 1960. Beginning in the 2050s, New Columbia became increasingly competitive for the Republican Party, due to a long-term realignment of the Democrats towards right-wing economics and a long-term realignment of the Republicans towards economic populism, which appealed to the traditionally very left-leaning state.