Live, unofficial results for the races on Tri-Lakes ballots, both El Paso County commissioner races and Colorado’s statewide measures, drawn from the official El Paso County and Colorado Secretary of State reporting feeds. The page updates itself every five minutes. No results may be released before polls close at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Every figure here is unofficial. Counting continues after election night: voters asked to fix a signature or identification problem have until 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, and ballots from military and overseas voters count if they arrive by the same day. The county must finish its official canvass by Wednesday, Nov. 25. Close races can move in the meantime.
For the candidates and measures behind these numbers, see the Independent’s elections page, which links to its candidate profiles and its analysis of Monument’s Ballot Issue 2B.
Sources & further reading
Official results: El Paso County election results (Clarity Elections) · Colorado Secretary of State election results
Calendar: Colorado Secretary of State, 2026 Election Calendar (PDF)
The Independent’s own coverage: Elections 2026 · Too Late to Mail a Ballot: Where to Return It in the Tri-Lakes
Methodology
The results box reads El Paso County’s and the Secretary of State’s official election-night feeds each time the page loads and every five minutes after that; the Independent does not change the figures. Local contests come from the county’s feed. Statewide races and measures show statewide totals from the Secretary of State’s feed, and the Fifth Congressional District race shows the district-wide count from the same feed. If the state’s feed stops responding, those sections fall back to El Paso County’s count and say so. In each candidate race, the candidates with the most votes, as many as there are seats, are marked as leading. That is a reading of the count so far, not a call of the race. In partisan races each candidate’s party, as the feed reports it, is named beside the candidate, and the bars use the colors common on results pages: blue for Democratic, red for Republican, gold for Libertarian and gray for other parties. In the nonpartisan town races every candidate’s bar is the same green, so the length of the bar carries the comparison. On ballot measures, Yes is green and No is red, and a line on the Yes bar marks the share needed to pass: 55 percent for the constitutional amendments, all of them citizen initiatives, which Article V, Section 1(4)(b) of the Colorado Constitution holds to that threshold, and a majority for the rest. The one-line description under each ballot measure is the Independent’s summary of its certified ballot language, which the elections page reproduces in full. Write-in votes appear only where the county’s feed reports them.
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