Governor / Lieutenant Governor

Victor Marx's campaign website says he founded All Things Possible Ministries and has led more than 150 missions, that the ministry's teams have served more than 45,000 women and children, and that he served in the United States Marine Corps.

George Washington Markert was hired in 2024 as director of operations at GeoStabilization International, a geohazard mitigation company. The Marx campaign's announcement says he served more than 30 years in the Marine Corps and retired as a colonel, with senior assignments at U.S. Central Command and two Marine Logistics Groups. It says he ran for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2025.

Phil Weiser has been Colorado's attorney general since 2019 and is in his second term. He joined the University of Colorado law faculty in 1999 and was its law school dean from 2011 to 2016. He was a deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust and a White House technology adviser, clerked for Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and graduated from Swarthmore College and NYU School of Law.

Lesley Dahlkemper is the Jefferson County commissioner for District 3 and was elected to a second four-year term in 2022. Her campaign website says she has chaired the Board of County Commissioners. She was elected to the Jefferson County school board in 2011 and was its president for two years. She began as a journalist at Colorado Public Radio and later owned a communications firm.

Stephen T. Hamilton filed in 2024 as the American Constitution Party's candidate for Colorado Senate District 2, and the candidacy was terminated in January 2025. He filed his candidate affidavit for governor in February 2025.

James K Treibert has worked since 2004 as a library materials handler at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, after university jobs in North Dakota, Minnesota and Colorado, according to his website. He ran for University of Colorado regent in 2018, mayor of Thornton in 2019, the State Board of Education in 2022 and, as a write-in candidate, the U.S. House in 2024.

Eric Mulder's party described him in 2019 as a graphic designer and in 2026 as a small business owner. He served on Aurora's Veterans Affairs and Civic Engagement Commission, was elected state vice chair of the Libertarian Party of Colorado in 2019 and was the Forward Party's candidate for State House District 36 in 2024. His campaign website says he served in Afghanistan as an Army chaplain's assistant.

Wayne Harlos is owner and managing broker of the Harlos Real Estate Team in Castle Rock and has held a Colorado real estate license since 1989, according to his business website. His campaign website says he is a former chairman of the Libertarian Party of Colorado. He ran as the Libertarian candidate for Colorado Senate District 4 in 2020.

Jeff Peckman is the author of RAISE the ZONE: How to Light Up Earth's Luminous Age, a 2026 book its publisher says describes how people can create a "Luminous Age" and a solution-based world. His campaign website says he was the first vice president of special projects for the DaVinci Institute and ran a Denver ballot initiative campaign to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission.

T.J. Cole is a principal and associate judge of the Wheat Ridge Municipal Court and was appointed to the Boulder District Court in 1993, according to the Denver Justice High School website. He founded the Justice High Schools, chairs the Unity Party of Colorado and ran for University of Colorado regent at large in 2024. A licensed Colorado lawyer since 1990, he holds a University of Denver law degree.

Erik Underwood's campaign website says he is chairman of Illmatic Ventures and chief executive of My24HourNews.Com, and that he spent eight years suing Bank of America in federal courts. It says he worked in the United States Senate in Washington and spent five months as a student junior prosecutor in the Atlanta City Solicitor's Office.

Frank Atwood chairs the Approval Voting Party, which he co-founded. The party's biography of him says he served in the Army, was awarded a Purple Heart in Vietnam, earned an engineering degree and worked for the Navy for 25 years. He ran for the state House in 2004, the U.S. Senate in 2022 and the U.S. House in 2024.

Greg Lopez represented Colorado's Fourth Congressional District in the U.S. House from June 2024 to January 2025. He was mayor of Parker from 1992 to 1996 and Colorado director of the Small Business Administration from 2008 to 2014, and sought the nomination for governor in 2018 and 2022. His House biography lists him as a financial advisor and business owner. He served in the Air Force from 1983 to 1987.

Taralyn Romero has worked in the health care industry for more than 25 years, according to independent gubernatorial candidate Greg Lopez's announcement naming her as his running mate. The announcement says she became an outspoken advocate for property rights after Jefferson County filed suit to take her backyard.