The three top leadership posts in the Colorado House will be held by women
Election 2022
Colorado election results, primary results, politics news and more from The Colorado Sun.
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Lauren Boebert blames her close race on turnout and top-of-ticket Republicans. Here’s what the numbers say.
Turnout in the Republican’s 3rd Congressional District is down from 2018, the last midterm election. She outperformed the GOP’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial candidates in some of the district’s 27 counties.
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Thousands of Colorado ballots are rejected every year. Here’s what happens when there’s a problem with yours.
A process known as ballot curing allows local officials to alert voters that there’s an issue with the signature on their ballot, and provides a chance to fix it in time for it to count
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Who will be the next speaker of the Colorado House? The three-way race is too close to call — kind of.
Reps. Julie McCluskie of Dillon, Chris Kennedy of Lakewood and Adrienne Benavidez of Commerce City are all vying to be Colorado’s next House speaker
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Democrat Yadira Caraveo wins close race in Colorado’s new 8th Congressional District
Caraveo, who works as a pediatrician, will be the first Latina to represent Colorado in Congress. The 8th District’s population is nearly 39% Latino.
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Colorado becomes second state to legalize “magic mushrooms”
Proposition 122, which passed by an extremely thin margin, would allow healing centers where people could consume psilocybin mushrooms
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What to expect as the final votes are tallied in the razor-thin race between Lauren Boebert and Adam Frisch
Boebert takes the lead in updated results Thursday. There is still an eight-day period in which county clerks can accept ballots from military and overseas voters. Voters can also “cure” problem ballots in that time period.
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Colorado’s 2022 election, as told through photos
Candidates in tight races bite their nails, journalists dig into their third cup of coffee, and armchair politicos rabidly refresh Twitter as we all try to figure out the same thing: What exactly happened last night?
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Meet Adam Frisch, the candidate who shocked Lauren Boebert and his fellow Democrats
The former Aspen city councilman logged more than 23,000 miles and attended hundreds of community events in the 3rd Congressional District
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Republicans must wait until 2026 before they have any real shot at winning back power in Colorado
There are no statewide elected offices up for grabs for four years in Colorado. Democrats have never held this amount of sustained power at the state or congressional levels.