Colorado’s first-ever independent redistricting commissions are complete, after a lengthy commissioner selection process, and they are beginni…
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Colorado’s first-ever independent redistricting commissions are complete, after a lengthy commissioner-selection process, and they are beginni…
Ballots have arrived throughout Colorado Springs for an April 6 election in which voters will choose six members of the nine-member City Council.
Less than a month after becoming the longest-serving U.S. senator from Colorado since the early 1970s, Democrat Michael Bennet finds himself in the catbird seat.
Rep. Iman Jodeh, D-Aurora, finds being a member of the Colorado House almost surreal.
Republican Don Coram estimated he got more than 100 phone calls leading up to the day Congress was scheduled to reaffirm Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
At noon on Monday, in the governor’s office at the state Capitol, nine Colorado Democrats will cast their Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, sealing the decision by Colorado voters who gave the Biden/Harris ticket a 13-percentage point win over incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
Now that nearly every 2020 race is in the history books, we wanted to recognize the Colorado campaigns that turned heads among politicos.
As results of the 2020 election began to pour in on election night and in the following days, a familiar cry went up across the country: Just as they had in 2016, the pollsters got it wrong!
Benjamin Franklin thought the turkey should be our national bird, and after 2020, it might have a shot.
Within a few months, I was calling Twitter the place where everybody talks and nobody listens.
Democrat Joe Biden is set to become the next president of America.
There's a saying that goes: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Democrat Joe Biden is set to become the next president of America.
Our 59th consecutive presidential election has, we believe, just concluded. We are, like most people, awaiting the 23rd peaceful transfer of n…
Those Americans who thought the election would be a total repudiation of President Trump, that Texas and Florida might even turn red, and that Democrats would win control of the Senate, watched in amazement on Election Day as the world’s best known Internet troll won state after state.
Kamala Harris is the face of this year's election, but she doesn't stand alone.
The Colorado Politics staff offers their takes on who came out on top in the "most important election in our lifetimes" — this year.
President-elect Joe Biden is scheduled to address the nation. Click here to watch with closed captioning.
On Saturday morning, Zara Otaifah said she was able to breath a sigh of relief.
Former Vice President Joe Biden was named president by a number of news organizations Saturday morning after a final push of ballot results in Pennsylvania appeared to put a comeback from President Donald Trump out of reach.
Colorado politicos reacted mostly along partisan lines Saturday to word that Democrat Joe Biden had surpassed the necessary 270 Electoral College votes and apparently won the presidency.
The day after the election, veteran Colorado pollster Floyd Ciruli and Fritz Mayer, the dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver deconstructed how the polls and the media missed their mark, again.
I remember what I was thinking four years ago on election night.
No matter what side you were rooting for this election, it’s hard not to see the 2020 vote as a vote for independence.
Colorado voters this week added Cory Gardner’s name to an exclusive club — members of the state’s congressional delegation who lost bids for re-election.
Colorado politicos reacted mostly along partisan lines Saturday to word that Democrat Joe Biden had surpassed the necessary 270 Electoral College votes and apparently won the presidency.
Find a heatmap of the county-by-county vote for president and U.S. senate and tables on all the races that Colorado Politics covered on election night.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden inched ahead of President Trump early Friday morning in the count to determine who gets Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes and Georgia's 16 electoral votes.
There will be a president-elect by mid-December, but not before considerable fighting and legal wrangling over the results in multiple closely…
With an unofficial final count of 50.3% to 49.7%, Proposition 114 passed in Colorado, approving the reintroduction of grey wolves in the state.
Colorado shifted to all-mail voting in 2013, automatically sending a ballot to each active voter, and the state’s system has been hailed as a well-oiled, reliable machine.
Here's a wrap-up of the 2020 election results in Colorado as of Wednesday night. (Video by Skyler Ballard and Katie Klann)
Colorado Politics reporter Ernest Luning discusses the race for Colorado's Third Congressional District. (Video by Skyler Ballard & Katie Klann)
Civil unrest erupted in cities nationwide Tuesday night into early Wednesday as protesters became violent waiting for the results of the presi…
Colorado Politics deputy managing editor and senior writer, Joey Bunch, gives an update on the election in Colorado. (Video by Katie Klann &am…
With the last campaign finance filings turned in just hours before the start of Election Day 2020, candidates for the General Assembly and the super PACs that supported them reported they spent millions in the final two weeks of the campaign season.
While millions of people around the country awaited further results in the presidential election, one thing became clearer on Wednesday morning: Colorado appeared dangerously close to a devastating loss to its electoral rival, Minnesota.
Stephanie Alfieri came from behind in a three-way race to win a seat on the Woodland Park City Council.
President Trump claimed to have as good as won the election even as ballots were still being counted across the country in the early hours of …
Gazette reporter Wayne Heilman with updated ballot numbers in Colorado. (Video by Skyler Ballard & Katie Klann)
Early results Tuesday night in the race for Colorado’s Senate District 12 seat in El Paso County had incumbent Republican Bob Gardner holding …
State House District 15 incumbent, Republican Dave Williams led his Democratic challenger, John Pyne IV, 57.9% (22,502) 37.6% (14,612) in earl…
Record number of voters cast their ballots in Colorado for the 2020 elections.
Election night update with Joey Bunch and Ernest Luning of Colorado Politics. (Video by Skyler Ballard & Katie Klann)
Tim Geitner, the Republican incumbent in House District 19, appeared headed Tuesday toward turning back a challenge from Democrat Joe Thompson.
Catherine Nakai was defeating Stephanie Alfieri and Don Dezellem on Tuesday night in the race for Woodland Park City Council.
EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported all six candidates for Palmer Lake Town Council were voted into office. O…
WASHINGTON — As the fiercely contested 2020 campaign came to an close, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden were still l…
Democrats may have made headway in the Colorado General Assembly Tuesday night after possibly gaining seats in both state senate and house races.
