Colorado Politics

 5 takeaways from Colorado’s 2024 election

Colorado maintained its customary blue tint in Tuesday’s election, voting for the Democrats in statewide races and leaving the dominant party with majorities in the General Assembly and the state’s congressional delegation. For the fifth consecutive election, the state’s electorate...

 Hottest state Senate race in Colorado favors Republican

The early and unofficial returns show the hottest state Senate race is so far favoring the Republican candidate. The race to watch on Tuesday night is Senate District 5, which is based in the central portion of the Western Slope...

 Colorado voters paint state familiar shade of blue at ballot box: Analysis | COLORADO’S 2024 ELECTION

The only surprise on election night in Colorado was that there weren’t any big surprises. Capping the most turbulent campaign stretch in memory — including everything from one of the state’s Republican members of Congress retiring, another switching districts and...

 Colorado Springs voters split on recreational marijuana, early returns show

Colorado Springs voters appear to be split between approving or banning recreational marijuana sales in city limits, early returns show Tuesday night. As of 7:58 p.m., when first unofficial results were announced by the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s...

 Michael Allen claims victory over 4th Judicial District Attorney race in early returns

Incumbent Republican Michael Allen appears to be comfortably leading Democrat Jeremy Dowell to retain his position as 4th Judicial District Attorney, early returns show Tuesday night.  Allen led Dowell with 60.4% of the vote compared to Dowell’s 39.6%, according to the...

 Republicans in the lead for El Paso County commissioner races

The El Paso County Board of County Commissioners will likely stay red this year, with Republicans taking the lead against Democrats in each of three open elections. All three Republican candidates are leading against Democrats in early unofficial results. In...

 Downtown authority likely to pass for Old Colorado City, but may lack mill levy

Old Colorado City voters have chosen to create a Downtown Development Authority that would mirror the one covering downtown Colorado Springs but are mixed on its funding. The early unofficial results of the election, which was run though the Spencer Fane...

 Kamala Harris defeats Donald Trump in contest for state’s electoral votes | COLORADO’S 2024 ELECTION

For the third presidential election in a row, Colorado voters rejected Republican Donald Trump, this time voting to deliver the state’s 10 electoral votes to Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, according to early statewide returns posted Tuesday night. Preliminary,...

 Election Results: 2C road maintenance tax on track for renewal for 10 years

Colorado Springs voters are set to approve a 10-year extension for the sales tax that has helped the city funds road improvements. Tuesday night’s initial election results from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office at 8 p.m. showed...

 GOP’s Jeff Hurd pulls ahead of Democrat Adam Frisch in 3rd Congressional District | COLORADO’S 2024 ELECTION

Republican Jeff Hurd took the lead over Democrat Adam Frisch in preliminary, unofficial returns in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, the GOP-leaning seat that U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert left after Frisch came close to defeating her two years ago. Hurd had...

 Republican Lauren Boebert beats Democrat Trisha Calvarese in deep red 4th CD

Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won a return ticket to Congress, defeating Democrat Trisha Calvarese in Colorado’s deep red 4th Congressional District, according to the unofficial returns on Tuesday night. Boebert, who moved into the district after a close call...

 Democrat Yadira Caraveo takes lead over Republican Gabe Evans in 8th CD | COLORADO’S 2024 ELECTION

Voters in Colorado’s tossup 8th Congressional District appeared be leaning toward reelecting Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo over her Republican challenger, state Rep. Gabe Evans, based on the initial, unofficial returns. Serving her first term in Congress, Caraveo led Evans...

 Congressional incumbents DeGette, Neguse, Crow cruise to reelection in safe Democratic seats

Voters in Colorado’s four strongly Democratic congressional districts appeared to be sending their incumbents back to Washington on Tuesday, according to early, unofficial returns posted shortly after polls closed. The state’s longest-serving member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a...

 Voters favor sales tax hike for Denver Health — but not for affordable housing

Denver voters are split on two sales tax measures that would raise $100 million for housing and earmark $70 million to help fund the city’s safety net health care system.   The sales tax for Denver Health, the city’s safety net hospital...

 Voters pick commissioners for three districts in Arapahoe County

Arapahoe County on Tuesday night picked commissioners to represent three districts up for election. The county, which has more than 650,000 residents in 13 towns and cities, is holding elections for three of five Board of County Commissioner seats. Commissioners...

 Arapahoe County appears to adopt issue 1A

Arapahoe County voters appear to agree that the local government should be able to retain and spend taxes it has collected. Issue 1A is leading large at 70.6% to 29.4% with 204,928 votes counted, the unofficial and early tally shows.   Under...

 Aurora voters reject pit bull ban

Aurora voters are poised to repeal the city’s ban on pit bull ownership, with 53.6% in support of the measure, according to the early and unofficial count. As of Wednesday morning, almost 94,000 votes had been counted on the matter....

 Briefly | Election Day edition

Gov. Jared Polis encourages Coloradans to vote this Election Day It’s Election Day, and Gov. Jared Polis encouraged all Coloradans to make their voices heard by voting before polls close at 7 p.m.  “Those who get out and vote get...

 Colorado House Democrats poised to maintain status quo

Republicans had hoped to gain some of the ground they lost in 2022 in the state House but early returns don’t favor any major changes in the chamber’s 46-19 Democratic majority.  As of 9 p.m., the margins for several races...

 El Paso County resolves hazmat calls during ballot counting process

El Paso County has made use of its new partnership with the Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management multiple times in recent weeks, as the county Clerk and Recorder’s Office called out hazardous-materials first responders to help clear concerning...

 Measure to bring ranked-choice voting to Colorado has election officials worried about cost

Proposition 131, a Colorado ballot measure which seeks to radically transform the way voters cast their ballots, looks to carry a hefty price tag if approved by voters on Tuesday. According to the Colorado Blue Book, state spending will increase...

 Colorado voters cast over 2 million ballots for 2024 election

With just one day remaining until Election Day, over 2 million Coloradans have turned in their ballot so far, representing a little under half of the state’s registered voters, according to the latest numbers.  Of the ballots cast so far,...

 Colorado Libertarians sue Secretary of State Jena Griswold over leak of voting equipment passwords

The Colorado Libertarian Party sued Secretary of State Jena Griswold and her chief deputy on Friday in Denver, asking the court to decommission voting equipment and order a hand count of ballots in counties affected by the recently discovered online...

 Briefly | Colorado voters submit 1.7 million ballots

Welcome to Briefly, Colorado Politics’ daily news briefing. Here’s what’s going on today: Over 1.7 million ballots returned in Colorado With just days to go ahead of the Nov. 5 election, over 1.7 million early ballots have been turned in in...

 Trump campaign demands Griswold halt Colorado ballot count as Polis deploys staff to address password leak

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign demanded that Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold take immediate action to halt ballot processing in order to secure the state’s election equipment after voting machine passwords were posted online by her office. A Griswold deputy...

 El Paso County Clerk and Recorder ‘prepared to ask’ for Griswold’s resignation

El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Steve Schleiker said on a Colorado Springs radio program Thursday that he would call for the resignation of Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold after the top election official admitted the leak of voting...

 El Paso County to open 18 more Voter Service and Polling Centers on Friday

The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office is opening 18 Voter Service and Polling Centers on Friday to help voters sign up to vote and return ballots before the Election Day deadline. The facilities will be open from 8...

 Briefly | Denver Elections partners with Broncos to encourage voting

Welcome to Briefly, Colorado Politics’ daily news briefing. Here’s what’s going on today: Denver Elections partners with Broncos for “Broncos County Votes” Initiative  The Denver Clerk and Recorder’s Office is partnering with the Denver Broncos for a “Broncos County Votes” event...

 Colorado voting system passwords did not start getting changed until after password leak became public

Passwords for Colorado’s voting computers were visible online for months and Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold found out on Oct. 24. Her office only started changing the leaked passwords after the issue was made public, Denver Gazette media...

 Briefly | Taylor Swift named most ‘politically influential’ celebrity

Welcome to Briefly, Colorado Politics’ daily news briefing. Here’s what’s going on today: Colorado launches home electrification and appliance rebate program  To mark National Weatherization Day, Colorado is launching its Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate (HEAR) program.  (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); Funded by the Biden...