Colorado Voter Guide: 2024 General Election
The Colorado Voter Guide for the 2024 General Election, prepared by the staff of Colorado Politics, will assist readers researching various candidates and ballot measures.
All politics is local | VOTER GUIDE 2024
Colorado congressional candidates | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Colorado’s 14 ballot measures include abortion, hunting, ranked choice voting
Colorado state Senate candidates | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Colorado state House candidates | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Jefferson County commissioner candidates | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
University of Colorado Regent candidates | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Colorado State Board of Education candidates | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Colorado State Board of Education: Candidates on the cell phone debate in schools
Colorado State Board of Education: Candidates agree state falls short in education funding, teacher pay
Colorado State Board of Education: 4 seats open, 1 incumbent seeks reelection
Colorado State Board of Education: Candidates discuss parental rights, student independence
115 judges receive favorable recommendations for retention, 1 judge receives thumbs down
Amendment 79 seeks to enshrine abortion rights in Colorado’s Constitution | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Proposition 129: A sham proposal or a solution to a Colorado veterinary care crisis? | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Douglas County commissioner candidates | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Arapahoe County commissioner candidates | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Jefferson County Amendment 1A | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Aurora ballot measure on pit bulls | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Denver ballot issues | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Arapahoe County Issue 1A | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
Douglas County, Castle Rock ballot measures | 2024 VOTER GUIDE
More Information
Polling centers open across Colorado as election quickly approaches
Colorado ballot issues raise more than $6.6 million in two weeks
Colorado’s Secretary of State’s Office reports over 636,000 ballots have been turned in
Proposition 131 debate: Weighing the merits and cost of ranked-choice voting in Colorado
US Postal Service advises voters to send mail-in ballots early to ensure timely delivery
Gov. Jared Polis releases stance on 14 ballot measures for 2024 election
Proposition 131: Colorado voters will decide fate of ranked-choice voting | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Trump expands the 2024 map with blue state visits and Colorado dreams
Amendment H: What to expect if judicial discipline measure passes
Colorado House District 44: Republican Hartsook and Democratic opponent Nilemo talk housing, crime, presidential preference
From The Denver Gazette and Colorado Politics: Real-time coverage and analysis on Election Day
Colorado Democrats chase ‘supermajority’ in the Senate
2024 Election Day coverage: Live updates
Democracy is under attack, right here in Colorado | Jon Caldara
Jon Caldara
jon-caldara@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Remember during COVID, when the people screaming the loudest for government-mandated jabs were the very same people chanting “my body, my choice” when it came to abortion — I mean, “women’s health care”? They’re also the folks who insist a...
8 exemplars to guide us into the new year | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
eric-sondermann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
It started as a one-off in my first year of writing this regular column. To ring in the new year back in the eventful year of 2020, I offered a shoutout to eight Coloradans who served as models of how...
Raids, pushback and TdA indictments defined Denver’s immigration story in 2025
Nico Brambila
nico.brambila@denvergazette.com
Updated 12 hours ago
The Trump administration’s push for a large-scale, deportation effort — built around campaign warnings about Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan prison gang that established a foothold in Colorado — collided with the realities on the ground in Denver, where raids...
Denver’s budget deficit shaped 2025 news coverage
Deborah Grigsby
deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 11 hours ago
It was a year of big goals on a tight budget for the Mile High City, where Mayor Mike Johnston’s announcement of a $200 million city budget deficit dominated the news coverage. Facing a $50 million gap in its 2025...
Colorado podcaster who has called for political foes to be executed joins GOP primary for governor
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 13 hours ago
Joe Oltmann, the conservative Colorado podcaster who has repeatedly called for Colorado’s top elected officials to be executed and whose uncorroborated claims that the 2020 election was rigged spawned multiple defamation lawsuits, declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for...
‘The canary in the democracy mine is local journalism’ | Vince Bzdek
Vince Bzdek
vince.bzdek@gazette.com
Updated 17 hours ago
Colorado could do a lot more to save newspapers – and democracy – in rural areas By Vince Bzdek As another new year and another legislative session dawn for Colorado, it’s a good time to ask what the absolute most...
Colorado’s national correspondent recounts violent KKK march in D.C. | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 days ago
by Rachael Wright Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: “I had forgotten about the Ku Klux Klan,” said Ann Downing Schmidt, The Colorado Statesman’s Washington, D.C., correspondent. In a commentary piece published in The Statesman, Schmidt described trying to make the ten-minute drive from...
2025 Unfiltered: Moments that marked Colorado’s decidedly off-kilter political year
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
From the flurry of executive orders that ushered in President Donald Trump’s second term to a blizzard of lawsuits filed by the state’s Democratic officials, the state’s political year was marked by near-constant conflict between the GOP-controlled federal government and...
Colorado Politics in focus: the year’s top in-depth cover stories and series | 2025 unfiltered
Thelma Grimes
thelma.grimes@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 15 hours ago
In 2025, Colorado Politics went beyond the daily headlines, delivering in-depth reporting on the major issues shaping the state — from congressional action to legislative proposals to the urban-rural divide and the future of Colorado’s economy. Here’s a look at...
2025 Unfiltered: Remembering those we lost in Colorado
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 15 hours ago
Rod Bockenfeld Former Rep. Rod Bockenfeld, R-Watkins, died on Feb. 13, 2025, at his home in Watkins. He was 69. Bockenfeld served in the Colorado House from 2019 to 2025, including on the Joint Budget Committee. He battled cancer during...