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Colorado Springs 2025 City Council election: Updated results

The early results of Tuesday’s election for the Colorado Springs City Council seats showed the two incumbents set to win their races, a former council member set to return after more than a decade, and three new members taking a lead in the other districts. Here are the results from the batches of votes released Tuesday:

District 1, northwest

Council member Dave Donelson is well ahead in his campaign for a second term on the Colorado Springs City Council. Donelson received 58.1% of the unofficial vote total in the northwest district, pulling ahead of challenger and Air Force veteran Lee Lehmkuhl who received 41.9% of the votes. Read more here.

District 2, north

Tom Bailey, the chairman of the El Paso County Planning Commission, easily won an uncontested race in District 2 with 7,029 votes cast in his favor. The other candidate for the district, Frank Chrisinger, has withdrawn and votes cast for him will not be counted. Read more here.

District 3, southwest

Former City Council member Brandy Williams has emerged from a crowded field of five candidates to lead the results in District 3, covering the southwest and downtown Colorado Springs. Williams received 37.6% of the vote in the initial count, followed closely by former council intern and Stop Cop City COS organizer Maryah Lauer at 34.2% of the vote. Read more here.

District 4, southeast

In the southeast of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Black Chamber CEO Kimberly Gold is holding off two other major candidates in the race to be the new representative for District 4. Gold received 38.8% of the vote in the results Tuesday night, while Sherrea Elliott-Sterling had received 30.2% of the initial votes and Chauncy Johnson received 26.2% of the votes. Read more here.

District 5, central

Council member Nancy Henjum is holding strong in her re-election campaign. The current representative for Colorado Springs’ central District 5 has received 49.1% of the votes reported by the end of Tuesday. Former Colorado Springs police office Christoper Burns led three other candidates in the race with 28.5% of the initial votes. Read more here.

District 6, northeast

The early results for Colorado Springs’ District 6 election show Air Force veteran and entrepreneur Roland Rainey Jr. leading a close race to join the City Council for the northeast corner of the city. Rainey Jr. led the three candidates in the initial results with 42.6% of the total votes, or 4,772 votes cast to support him.

Trailing behind him was Colorado Springs School District 11 board President Parth Melpakam with 36.9% of the vote and 4,128 votes cast for him. Financial advisor Aaron Schick has 20.5% of the vote with 2,295 votes. Read more here.

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