County ballot
Denver's ballot, November 3, 2026
On the November 3, 2026 ballot
Local measures
7 local measures
- 2H, City and County of Denver: Denver Auditor's Workplace Enforcement Authority
- 2I, City and County of Denver: Denver Charter Amendment on Two-Year Budgets
- 2J, City and County of Denver: Denver Civil Service and Public Safety Charter Changes
- 2K, City and County of Denver: Denver's 20-Year Franchise With Xcel Energy
- 4A, School District No. 1 in the City and County of Denver (Denver Public Schools): Denver Public Schools' request to raise its mill levy override limit from 25% to 29% of total program funding, starting with up to $44 million in 2026
- 7A, Front Range Passenger Rail District: A permanent 0.333% sales and use tax and up to $580 million in borrowing for Colorado Connector passenger rail
- 311, City and County of Denver: Denver's Ban on Force-Feeding Birds and Foie Gras
Statewide measures on every Colorado ballot
- Amendment 81 (Initiative 95): Requiring law enforcement to notify Homeland Security after criminal charges
- Amendment 82 (Initiative 177): A constitutional right to purchase and sell natural gas
- Amendment 83 (Initiative 302): Creating a constitutional right to hunt, fish and take fish and wildlife
- Amendment 84 (Initiative 362): Requiring a signature and an identification number on returned mail ballots
- Amendment 85 (Initiative 234): Requiring ballot questions to be written in plain language
- Amendment 86 (Initiative 256): Congressional redistricting and changes to final maps
- Amendment 87 (Initiative 195): Replacing Colorado's single income tax rate with six graduated rates
- Proposition NN: Keeping revenue that would otherwise fund TABOR refunds
- Proposition 132 (Initiative 85): Increasing criminal penalties for fentanyl and certain synthetic opioids
- Proposition 133 (Initiative 108): Life without parole for human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude
- Proposition 134 (Initiative 109): Designating school sports teams by biological sex
- Proposition 135 (Initiative 110): Prohibiting surgery on minors to alter biological sex characteristics
- Proposition 136 (Initiative 232): A 4.4 percent cap on the state income tax rate
- Proposition 137 (Initiative 308): Retaining sporting goods sales tax revenue for wildfire and conservation programs
Races
- Attorney General
- Governor / Lt. Governor
- RTD Board of Directors, District B
- RTD Board of Directors, District C
- RTD Board of Directors, District K
- RTD Board of Directors, District L
- RTD Board of Directors, District N
- Secretary of State
- State Board of Education, District 1
- State House of Representatives, District 1
- State House of Representatives, District 2
- State House of Representatives, District 3
- State House of Representatives, District 4
- State House of Representatives, District 5
- State House of Representatives, District 6
- State House of Representatives, District 7
- State House of Representatives, District 8
- State House of Representatives, District 9
- State Senate, District 31
- State Senate, District 32
- State Senate, District 34
- State Treasurer
- University of Colorado Board of Regents, District 6
- US House of Representatives, District 1
- US House of Representatives, District 6
- US Senate
Judges on the ballot
- Judge Andrea Eddy: retention on the Denver County Court
- Judge Andrew Luxen: retention on the Denver District Court
- Judge Chelsea Malone: retention on the Denver County Court
- Judge Christopher J. Baumann: retention in the Second Judicial District
- Judge Elizabeth D. Leith: retention on the Denver Probate Court
- Judge Elizabeth Joan McCarthy: retention on the Denver Juvenile Court
- Judge Elizabeth L. Harris: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Grant Sullivan: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Isaam L. Shamsid-Deen: retention on the Denver County Court
- Judge John Eric Elliff: retention in the Second Judicial District
- Judge Jon J. Olafson: retention in the Second Judicial District
- Judge Judith Smith: retention on the Denver County Court
- Judge Karl L. Schock: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Katharine E. Lum: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Kerri Lombardi: retention on the Denver County Court
- Judge Lisa Gomez: retention on the Denver Juvenile Court
- Judge Michael W.V. Angel: retention in the Second Judicial District
- Judge Michelle Martinez-Thomas: retention on the Denver County Court
- Judge Olympia Z. Fay: retention on the Denver County Court
- Judge Pax Moultrie: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Rebecca Rankin Freyre: retention on the Colorado Court of Appeals
- Judge Sarah Block Wallace: retention on the Denver District Court
- Justice William W. Hood III: retention on the Colorado Supreme Court
County clerk
- Clerk and Recorder
- Paul López
- Phone
- (720) 913-8683
- [email protected]
Where the local questions come from
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Key dates
- October 2 to October 9: county clerks mail ballots to active voters.
- October 12: drop boxes open.
- October 26: last suggested day to return a ballot by mail.
- From October 27: return your ballot to a drop box or vote center instead of mailing it.
- November 3, 2026, Election Day: ballots are due by 7:00 p.m.
Page updated September 29, 2026